India, May 8 -- After years of working late and taking on extra tasks, a man claimed that it was setting boundaries at the workplace to secure more work-life balance that got his a raise. In a now-viral Reddit post, an anonymous user narrated how he went from being the office "try-hard" to promotion material just because he decided to do less not more.

"I got a raise after I started leaving exactly at 5pm and my boss is acting like I've 'stepped up my game,'" he wrote.

He said that for years he was a hardworking employee who put was the first one in and the last to leave, constantly answering late-night emails and picking up coworkers' slack. However, he rarely got a promotion or raise despite asking, constantly brushed off with vague r...