“You were always late coming into the office. Now you are late even from home? How do you manage it?” asks the furious manager. “I overslept sir, like always,” replies the executive with brazen effrontery. He had logged in late for the morning video call.
The lockdown has compelled India’s corporate world to rejig not just its business projections and balance sheets but also the work culture of its employees. Suddenly, work from home (WFH) is not an option for a munificent manager to grant to his team members, but a compulsion for bosses to impose to keep the workflow rolling. And the comfort of working from home could easily lead to complacence, unless the managers could keep things under control—remotely.
“Yes it was a totally new concept for us, with offices spread across the country. Suddenly, all of us were working remotely from our homes. Only technicians who had to keep the elevators moving were on the field,” observes Amit Gossain, MD, Kone Elevators India.
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