India, July 25 -- A Reddit user has shared their frustration with a workplace policy that they say has turned a once flexible job into one dominated by micromanagement. While the company replaced daily timesheets with weekly updates following employee feedback, the worker claims the new system has only made things more stressful.

According to the employee, they are now expected to justify exactly 40 hours of work every week, with scheduled meetings reportedly not counting towards those hours.

In the Reddit post, the employee, who identified themselves as a Research Analyst at a firm in Central Delhi, said they had been with the company for around 3.5 years. They explained that the first two years were enjoyable, with manageable workload...