Ola employees claim founder and CEO Bhavish Aggarwal's harsh and aggressive behaviour at work enraged board members and alienated staff.
Several interviews with more than two dozen current and former Ola Electric employees who wished to remain anonymous revealed that the workplace environment has deteriorated over the past few years.
Current and former employees of Ola allege that Mr. Aggarwal frequently labelled teams "useless" in meetings, tore up presentations due to a missing page number, and used profane Punjabi language at personnel.
"Not everybody is a fit for our culture," Mr Aggarwal told Bloomberg when asked about his management style. "There's no world standard on an even, sterile work environment."
According to the article, in one instance he allegedly asked a worker to do three laps around the several-acre-large Ola Futurefactory, which is advertised as the largest electric two-wheeler plant in the world. The cause was a closed door that ought to have been left open.
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According to Mr. Aggarwal, he wants to create businesses that have a lasting influence, even if it offends some individuals in the process.
"Passions and emotions run high and we are not on an easy journey," Aggarwal told the agency in an interview last month at Ola Electric's swanky headquarters in Bengaluru. "But I don't want to choose an easier journey for myself or for Ola. My anger, my frustration — that's me as a whole."
The fallout - retaining employees, particularly at the top management level. Some executives, including Zilingo's former chief financial officer Ramesh Bafna, decided not to join Ola Electric days after formally accepting employment offers, the report added.
