India, March 19 -- A founder has sparked a debate online after claiming that a newly hired employee resigned within just 15 days, not over pay or workload, but after a discussion about accountability at work.

Ronit Thankur, founder of Be Rolling Media, shared the incident in an Instagram video, detailing how the employee had joined recently but stopped coming to the office after two days due to a "personal emergency," and was allowed to work from home. Thakur said that the employee was "doing fine" until a deadline issue surfaced.

He said that a video scheduled to go live a few minutes after working hours got delayed because the employee was unavailable. "It was just 15-20 minutes post working hours on paper, and that person wasn't avai...