A recent online meeting with an author began with his asking how our team has been managing without going to office. All of us said we were...
A recent online meeting with an author began with his asking how our team has been managing without going to office. All of us said we were doing fine working from home, despite the initial hiccups. Then he asked the most significant question anybody has asked me in 2020 – if we are happy with the WFH arrangement , what is the need to ever go back?
An eerie silence followed for a couple of seconds, and then we all laughed. Someone said that since we were adapting every day, that was a good place to start. Like a batsman adapts to the conditions of the pitch and shapes his innings accordingly, we too must acclimatise ourselves to this new way of doing things from our living rooms, wearing unintentionally ripped boxers and sipping coffee which is not from the machine in the office pantry and hence doesn’t taste like death.
The key really is to set achievable personal targets while working from home so that one also has an understanding of how many of them have been realised at the end of each day, before one drifts into one’s own cocoon. However, without a self-rewarding system in place, it becomes increasingly arduous...
