Bhavish Aggarwal emulates Musk, mandates weekly updates from Ola staff

Ola CEO Bhavish Aggarwal has launched a brand new initiative, ‘Kya Chal Raha Hain,’ requiring staff to submit weekly stories detailing their accomplished duties. The mandate, paying homage to Elon Musk’s directive to US federal employees earlier this 12 months to submit weekly progress stories or face termination.

In keeping with a CNBC report, an inside electronic mail was despatched to Ola staff final week instructing them to ship a short replace each Sunday to Aggarwal and their reporting supervisor. The replace should comprise three to 5 bullet factors summarizing their work. Workers have been requested to make use of the topic line ‘Weekly updates’ whereas submitting their stories to the e-mail ID Kyachalrahahai@olagroup.in.

“We’re beginning ‘Kya Chai Raha Hai?’ — a easy technique to share your weekly updates immediately with me and your managers, beginning at this time. Please ship a short replace to your supervisor and Kyachalrahahai@olagroup.in (electronic mail will likely be energetic in an hour or so) with 3-5 bullet factors about what you bought accomplished final week. Preserve it easy and to the purpose. Use the e-mail topic: ‘Weekly updates’. The deadline for that is at this time finish of day. Going ahead, we are going to count on the e-mail earlier than Sunday finish of day. Everybody has to ship this, no exceptions,” Aggarwal wrote in his electronic mail, as quoted by CNBC.

The directive comes at a time when Ola Electrical Mobility is shedding over 1,000 staff and contract employees to chop losses, in keeping with a Bloomberg report. The affected departments embody charging infrastructure, buyer relations, procurement, and fulfilment. 

The announcement has drawn comparisons to Elon Musk’s controversial mandate for US federal staff. Earlier this 12 months, Musk required federal employees to submit weekly progress stories or face termination, resulting in widespread backlash and authorized challenges.


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