India, June 17 -- An employee who had been earning Rs.70,000 a month for 4.5 years was left stunned after losing his job and receiving an offer for a new remote role that pays Rs.1.58 lakh a month, more than double his previous salary.

In a Reddit post titled "Salary hike left me shocked", the employee shared that he had recently been laid off as part of a "restructuring" exercise and was still dealing with the shock when the new opportunity came his way. "I have been working for a company for 4.5 years that pays me INR 70k. Recently I got laid off from restructuring. While I was still in a state of shock and had a spat with HR over the severance payout. That very day I got a job offer where the company is based out of India," he wrote....