Transition to ‘work from home’ may pay off (How COVID19 is changing how things are done)

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 Transition to ‘work from home’ may pay off (How COVID19 is changing how things are done)

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• This too will pass: The coronavirus crisis too will pass one day, soon. It will extract its toll, but will end. Thinigs will change in a big way, after this pandemic is gone.
• What will change: First and foremost, governments will be forced to think about health infrastructure. That can be an opportunity in this crisis, as happened with China. The Chinese are now helping the rest of the world battle COVID-19, using their experiments.
• Indian response: The difference in economic ability between China and India is huge. So while China will perhaps move ahead and capture more market share in the West, India will be well-advised to focus on saving itself for the moment.
• Wash your hands: Indians will finally develop the habit of washing hands frequently, thereby reducing the load of many other diseases as well!
• Working from home: The best part about this forced situation is that traffic congestion has ended suddenly. Fuel consumption and pollution will go down drastically. Time to commute will be saved. But working from home is not an easy thing.
• Problems from home: The creativity that flows when workers come together in an office is just missing when people work from home. When things return to normal, only a part of the work can be "work from home", not full.
• Focus on output: Finally, the focus will shift to work output, rather than time spent in office. Tasks will need to be very specific now. The accountability should not drop, when workers work from home.
• Savings will be huge: All said and done, working from home has major advantages, and will lead to a higher quality of life for workers. COVID-19 may have a silver lining, after all!
• Summary : The COVID-19 crisis is slowly making people realise that work from home is a viable option, not a fanciful one.

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