Gen Z employee attends office online meeting wearing neem face mask, video goes viral | Watch

New Delhi: A video of meeting in which employees were working from home has gone viral. In the video, a woman can be seen wearing a green mask, that attracted not only her colleagues but also social media users.

The online meeting started as usual, with people gathering to discuss the project. However, the attention soon shifted to Vartika Bisht. Her LinkedIn bio described her as, “Your viral neem face mask girl.” Even as other colleagues started laughing, her boss remained unfazed.

The video has earned millions of viewers

Instead of scolding Vartika, he asked her about the Mask. The woman replied saying it was ‘neem’ and he must try the same too. The video, which was reportedly a prank, has earned millions of views online. Many viewers have also praised the boss for not scolding her colleague and instead responding to the situation quite well.

Boss shares response on LinkedIn

The boss, Naresh Harwani, wrote on LinkedIn. “This video accidentally hit 7M views on Instagram. One of our team members joined a call wearing a face mask and pranked me on camera. For a few seconds, I was trying to decide if this was a prank or some new Gen Z meeting protocol,” he wrote.

He added, “Our marketing team then took the opportunity to embarrass me publicly by turning the clip into a reel and somehow it took off. “We do maintain a professional culture, but now and then a moment like this makes the day a little more fun. Definitely not something we planned, just a spontaneous moment from a regular work call.”

“That’s how cool employees and the managers should be as long as work is getting done well,” one of the users wrote. Calling it ‘highly unprofessional’, some users added, “This impacts the concept of ‘work from home’ in a negative way. And some people really need WFH, but these kinds of idiots are spoiling it for others.”