Work from home

Will Work from home be the new normal for India?

Getting ready to go to the college and office each morning, scrambling for the bicycle bike, scooty and  car keys, booking an taxi,Ola or Uber or rushing to catch the metro ,stucking in traffic seems like a dream for nowadays . Everything changed almost overnight with the announcement for a complete lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Life was thrown out of gear and social distancing became the new norm.

In this Lockdown Indians and people across the world are now getting used to catching up with friends and relatives over video calls, standing a few feet apart from each other 

when at the grocery stores or even chatting with their neighbors. The biggest change for many has been the concept of working from home. Almost the entire workforce of the country is doing that now. Never has the world had image the lockdown scenario.

Every coin has two faces like wise this Lockdown work from home have both positive effect and negative effect on the society

The corona virus crisis has changed all aspects of all life, but it appears there may be some positive benefits on the society:

Tech companies like Google, Microsoft and Facebook have publicly stated that workers should feel free to work from home if they feel ill. Twitter is “strongly encouraging all employees globally to work from home if they’re able.”

• IT sector company can do work from home
• Pollution: Reducing pollution can reduce both climate change and COVID-19 risks
• Spending time with family
• Humanity (contribution of amount towards the welfare of society or individual).
• Environment

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused industrial activity to shut down and cancelled flights and other journeys, slashing greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution around the world. If there is something positive to take from this terrible crisis, it could be that it’s offered a taste of the air we might breathe in a low-carbon future.

Negative EFFECT:

The pandemic had drastic changed in every field. There are approx 90% of industrial work which we can’t do by sitting in front of laptop doing work online. When you think about major employers like Delivery of items working manual on machine, cultivation of agriculture field, their employees or worker can’t work from home

• Industrial Labour:
• Labour class worker
• Rikshaw Puller:
• Peasant
• Small shopkeepers
• Grocery seller
• Maid
• Education system: As of 18 May 2020, approximately 1.725 billion learners are currently affected due to school closures in response to the pandemic. According to UNICEF monitoring, 156 countries are currently implementing nationwide closures and 29 are implementing local closures, impacting about 98.5 percent of the world's student population.