BPO HR manager accused of sleaze
By Mahesh Arora

About half a dozen male agents working on the city collection shift for Barclay’s Bank at Sparsh BPO in Gurgaon contacted police alleging that their HR manager had behaved inappropriately with them. While demonstrating outside the Police Station, these agents demanded the arrest of the 35-year old HR manager Manoj Chutani (*name changed) for seeking sexual favours from them.

But company officials claimed that Manoj is innocent, and matter has been amicably sorted out to the extent that the agents finally agreed not to press their demand to the police to lodge a criminal compliant against the manager.  The senior management of Sparsh BPO has not taken the matter lightly. A senior executive from Mumbai has flown in to Gurgaon Office in Udyog Vihar to talk to both the sides on Wednesday.  The BPO officials claimed that it was one agent Arjun Raj Sachdev whose name was referred to the HR Department for disciplinary action following his misconduct in the office, who instigated others and leveled serious charges against the innocent HR manager to distract the attention of the management from the possible action against him.  Earlier the irate agents alleged that the HR manager repeatedly asked for sexual favours from male agents and started harassing them when his ‘requests’ were turned down. As the situation dragged on, it only aggravated the situation and made it intolerable, that they decided to gather courage and approach the police station to file a complaint of sexual harassment against the manager, they added.  These agents had also alleged that the HR manger would not only harass the male agents but was also targeting the female agents as well. 

However, the BPO officials, for the time being have concluded that the HR manager was facing such serious charges by the agents for being a strict disciplinarian at the BPO.

Techgoss note:  We have the full name and details of this HR manager but feel it would not be correct to publish his name at this point in time.