India, June 25 -- Employee resignations are often seen as a routine part of business, but for some founders, they can carry an emotional weight that rarely gets discussed. Rachna Baruah, founder of strategic communications firm Madchatter, has now shared an honest account of how losing employees affected her in the early days of building her company.

In a LinkedIn post, Baruah recalled the heartbreak she experienced when some of her first employees decided to leave for better opportunities. "As a founder, I still remember the heartbreak when my first few employees resigned. They had grown up, moved on to better opportunities and I was ecstatic for them," Baruah wrote.

However, she admitted that there was another side to the story that v...