Most of the replies to the LinkedIn post were largely critical, speaking in favour of flexible working arrangements and a result-oriented workplace rather than one that stresses on physical attendance.
“In the era of AI, these views coming from CQO of a company sound regressive. It potentially shows your weakness as a leader and communicator. While there is a rise of four-day work culture in the West, Indian leaders are going in the reverse direction asking people to work more! Physical presence is not remotely linked to productivity. It’s high time people embrace technology and become progressive! (sic),” one LinkedIn user said.
Others replied that making working from the office compulsory on Mondays would create resentment in employees and that major project decisions should be made in the middle of the week, that is on Wednesday.
“If the organization makes Monday mandatory for WFO, this will further cause resentment among the employees. This will further reduce their productivity. Same goes for Friday as well. So, any of the major project decisions or in case of Agile projects, the ceremonies should happen midweek i.e. on Wednesday and if the review and retrospective is happening on Wednesday, the next sprint planning can happen on Thursday,” another user commented.
Nagaraj replied to several critics, saying that they should follow practices that suit them and their workplace and that his words were suggestions and ought to be ignored if ones disagrees.
