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A software engineer has sparked an online discussion after sharing his struggle with a long notice period at work. Despite completing all his tasks, his company has refused to let him go early, which has left him frustrated. He explained that he received two job offers that required him to join within 30 days. Trusting his employer’s verbal promise to release him in time, he resigned. But once his resignation was submitted, the company changed its decision and asked him to stay for at least 60 days. According to the individual, there’s no pending work and he believes the real reason for the delay is that the company wants to continue billing the client for his role. Meanwhile, his new employers are becoming impatient and have warned that they might withdraw the offer if he cannot join them. The situation has left him feeling helpless and demotivated. Employee Shares His Struggle With Long Notice Period Taking to Reddit, the employee wrote, “I’m stuck in a frustrating situation right now and could use some perspective. I got two good offers recently, both companies wanted me to join within 30 days. Based on that, I resigned from my current job, where the official notice period is 90 days. Initially, my employer verbally agreed to release me in 30 days, so everything looked fine. But once I submitted my resignation, they suddenly changed their stance. Now they’re insisting on at least 60 days, even though I’ve already completed all my deliverables and there are no active project dependencies.” “The only reason they’re holding me back is billing, they want to keep charging the client for my position. I’ve been transparent with the new companies and keep them updated. But they’re getting impatient, saying December is too late, and they’ll “check with the hiring team.” I’m scared they might pull back the offer. So I’m just sitting here, demotivated, doing meaningless work, stuck in a company that values revenue over people — all while the opportunity I earned might slip away,” the individual explained. He wanted to know if others had ever faced a similar problem with notice periods in India. He was curious to learn how people managed such situations without losing a new job opportunity or creating tension with their current employer. Stuck in notice period hell – company won’t release me even when there’s no work byu/sandyway2023 inindia Redditors Share Useful Advice Reacting to the post, a user wrote, “The only way to properly deal with this is to tell the recruiter your notice period is 90 days from the start, so that they accommodate when releasing the offer. Not the way I’d like to do it, but start searching for a job after resigning and while in the Notice Period.” Another shared, “Keep interviewing for other companies and tell them NP is 60 days.” Someone said, “Wish we could help.” “You can put in a medical document and once you have your documents can join the other org. Tell the other org it’ll take 90 days to get the papers after joining,” a comment read. One more added, “Do you have any notice period mentioned in your original offer letter from your current company? If so, you have to serve the time. This notice period rule cuts both ways. If the current company lets go of an employee, they have to give the employee a notice of 60-90 days, or whatever the agreed to period in the original offer letter. India, thankfully, does not have an ‘at will’ labour law, which would typically mean the employer or the employee can leave without notice.” In the comments, the poster explained that even though the official notice period is 90 days, most employees usually leave within a month. In his case, it’s more complicated because they are currently working on a client project. Since the client doesn’t want a replacement, they are not allowed to leave until the work is properly handed over, which has made the situation more difficult.
