HR managers and even bosses of Ahmedabad-based BPO and KPO firms are getting involved in solving personal issues of their employees.
When executives, Kunal and Ritika, fell in love while working for a city-based BPO they sought help from their HR executive to solve their work and personal life pressures.
HR managers and even bosses of Ahmedabad-based BPO and KPO firms are increasingly getting involved in solving personal issues of their employees or subordinates. These include dealing with depression, loneliness, office misbehaviour, family issues and also office romance.
“We have a lot of young guns working with our organisation and hence, chances of them falling in love naturally exist. When we do catch such cupid-pulse rates, we confront them merely to ensure that their relationship does not hinder our business or their professional lives. We have had some great examples in the past and even recently, where our employees have fallen in love and got married and continue to work with us. It is a great feeling for sure,” assures, founder of Motif, Parul Mehta.
HR vice-president of Qx Limited, Vishali Nair, who is currently dealing with two such cases agrees with this sentiment. Says Nair, “They fell in love while working within the same team. One cannot really stop people from falling in love, right! So we encouraged and helped them, while ensuring that our professional set-up and company policies don’t get affected. We ensured that while they are about to get married, their departments or teams were different so that other employees don’t get the feeling of us being biased. Moreover, we also intend to rope in a counsellor to solve family issues and cases of depression.”
A senior professional from a finance firm says that the current structure of organisations has changed. Since most firms deal with people in the age group of 25-30 years, mentoring them while solving their personal issues and handling office romance is the need of the hour.
At Azure Knowledge Corporation Pvt Ltd, there are nearly three to four cases of committed romantic relationships a month. Says COO, Jay Ruparel, “We have had and have a lot of such romantic cases, where people still continue to work with us. However, while this happens we ensure they are not working within the same team or department to avoid any perceived bias. Such thoughts do not help a company grow and prosper. In fact, when couples are committed they come to the HR executives to get their teams or departments changed.”
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