3 recent changes that has left me dishearten about being part of Kabbage India -:
1- Expensify for India has been dropped down to Rs 100 on the other hand US has a cap of $75. This seems to reflect the trust level Kabbage has with their employees specifically in India. In the town hall, we were informed that there is a law in India which forced them to reduce it from Rs.500 to Rs.100. The previous organization I worked with had over 1000 employees under their payroll. So why can’t Kabbage do it for just 80 employees? Do we really get anything for Rs 100 nowadays?
2- Travel Change – Previously we had an option to take any means of transport & we would get reimbursed. But ever since the last change, we have Uber as the only available option. The difficulties & the time taken to get a cab in Bangalore during peak office going hours is a game of luck. You can never really expect to us to rely only on Uber for our day-to-day transportation. We anyways have to reach office & if we don’t get Uber , we are bound to take any other means of transport. That means we must pay for our travel from our own pocket. What do you say about these ingenious ways of cost cutting?
3- The most important & infamous change is that you have reduced the international travel expense from $50 to $30. Is there any other company which gives out just $ 30 for travelling to the States? When anyone from Us travel to India, they stay in Leela & they don’t have any limit on their expenses. The company seems to be implying an underlying parity between an Indian travelling to US & an US citizen travelling to India. The new policy makes it implicitly clear that apart from dinner & lunch for weekends there are not goona be any other reimbursements. It is very inconvenient for an employee to pay the bills for each expenses. I am still wondering what benchmark are you setting by making the travel allowance $30? We should at least be paid as per US standard for those many days or the minimum wage per hour as per US rule. We would not mind taking care of our own personal expenses if you pay us as per US standards.