It was meant to be just another routine Friday team Zoom meeting. But when RemoteStar CEO Naresh Harwani glanced at his screen and saw Vartika Bisht, a 21-year-old recruit hired three months earlier, staring back at him with a bright green neem mask slathered on her face and a towel wrapped around her as if fresh from the shower, the meeting took an unexpected turn. For a brief moment, Harwani paused. Then, he shattered the silence with a question no boardroom manual has ever needed to cover: “What face pack is that?” “Neem,” Bisht replied, hardly skipping a beat. “You should give it a try too.” The rest of the team broke into barely stifled laughter. Someone hit the record button. The clip went viral online, quickly amassing millions of views, thousands of comments, and a controversy that overshadowed Bisht’s skincare routine. It was later revealed to be an orchestrated prank, with Bisht confessing she’d participated due to RemoteStar’s company culture.
