Indian tech company to impose Rs 1 lakh fine on employees for disturbing colleagues on off days

No matter how much you love your job, you certainly do not wish to be reminded about it during your holidays. It is not a nice feeling when you are spending some quality time with your family, but your phone constantly buzzes with email, messages and notifications. 

To tackle such issues, an Indian company has come up with an interesting policy that will let the employees enjoy their holidays in peace. However, employees who have the habit of disturbing their colleagues on their leave days may have to pay a hefty fine for doing so.

Under this "UNPLUG" policy, the company's staff can completely cut off from all office work, related conversations (on emails, WhatsApp group, Slack, or calls), and co-workers for a week without any pressure.

In a LinkedIn post, the company wrote about UNPLUG policy, "At Dream11, we actually log off the 'Dreamster' who is unplugged, off from every possible Stadium communication platform, be it slack, emails and even WhatsApp groups. We do this to ensure absolutely no one from the Dreamster’s work ecosystem can contact them while they are on their well-deserved break".

According to media reports, the company’s founders Harsh Jain and Bhavit Seth have decided that during the unplugged period, if an employee makes a call-message or sends an email to an employee on leave, he will be fined up to one lakh rupees. According to him, any employee of the company will be able to take advantage of this unplugged policy. 

It is believed that the company has brought this policy to ensure that the company does not have to depend on any employee under any circumstances.