India, June 11 -- An employee has sparked a discussion online after claiming that a colleague virtually stopped working after receiving a lower salary hike than the rest of the team, leaving others to pick up the slack and increasing pressure on the entire group.

In a Reddit post titled "Colleague stopped working after latest hike numbers," the employee said that most team members received hikes of around 13%, while one colleague got just 7%. He said that the colleague's productivity dropped sharply after the appraisal cycle, forcing teammates to take on additional work. He claimed the colleague had struggled with performance issues even before the salary revisions were announced.

"So this colleague of mine is not very technically sound...