India, June 21 -- A video shared by an Indian man has triggered a wider conversation on workplace empathy after he claimed that his foreign manager asked him not to work on the day his child started preschool.

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Taking to Instagram, Saurabh Verma said he had joined a meeting slightly late because it was his child's first day at preschool. When he explained the reason, his manager was surprised that he had logged in at all.

"Guys, I have a foreign manager who actually stopped me from working today and asked me to take the day off because it was my child's first day at preschool," Verma said in the video.

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