Work Life Balance has been a buzz word coined in corporate for quite sometime.

In an innovative move one of Indigenous strat-up firm has recently brought this to reality. Piloted to see the Impacts and Efficacy. It’s indeed a welcome move!

The IT start-up has installed software that reminds employees to log off on time

Tanvi Khandelwal, 21, was taken aback recently when a colourful warning flashed across the screen of her work computer.

“Your shift time is over. The office system will shut down in 10 mins. PLEASE GO HOME!” it read.

Ms Khandelwal, who had joined the company’s human resources division just a few days ago, soon found out that the pop-up message had been installed by her new employers to get her to log off on time.

She is among 40 employees at SoftGrid Computers – an Indian tech start-up based in Indore city in Madhya Pradesh state – who get a daily notification to log off every day, 10 minutes before their shift ends. At 7pm, their computers automatically shut down.

Many users have praised the initiative, but some also questioned its practicality.

“This will create pressure to meet deadlines early,” wrote one user. Another said that the “inflexible working ethos” might force people to work on weekends. Others asked what would happen if there was work pending and an employee couldn’t simply log off.

“They can simply restart the system and log in,” says Ms Shukla.

She says that the message isn’t binding and is merely meant to remind her teammates that the workday is over and that they’re free to leave.

“Some of our clients are not happy about this, but we’re standing by it,” she adds.