Remote style of working or working from home is a style of working that allows professionals to work out of a traditional office environment. With COVID-19 doing the rounds, people, especially the bosses have been quite expressive about their opinions.
Express Computer reached out to some, and here’s what they have to say:
Raman Talwar, CEO, Simulanis
The idea of using a head-mounted device seemed to be a distant future, however, with the recent outbreak of Coronavirus, many companies have started paying attention to the advantages of VR/AR.
Create, Collaboration and Review
We realised that the customers are craving for engagements within the VR experience, and were wanting more interactivity features. Employers on the other hands were wanting greater flexibility, and productivity tools to engage their employees across the globe, enabling a more meaningful VR experience, one driven with easy knowledge transfer-based experience. This is where the idea of ‘Multiplayer VR’ really ticked in, and although it is having potential applications in Gamification industry at large (in entertainment), we also realised that its scope in the industry has still not been exploited.
With the use of VR gears, VR analytics and VR development kits, we were able to spin-off a great and revolutionary a product called ‘EAGLE’ for a great Multiplayer VR experience, allowing users to collaborate at a global scale, while enabling remote access from the main centre-stage of L&D training centres, and right to the places where the users are based while collaborating with others across different regions, and they don’t have to waste additional time for it.
In our capacity, we have identified 3 potential uses of it and we have already started working on various projects as well:
- VR Meetings (Revolutionizing communication) – Take notes and replace video meetings with VR meetings. Target group – Distributed, Remote Teams
- Easy reviews for process and design projects (Increasing productivity) – Made for design teams engaged in iterative design processes. Target group – Product & Engineering Companies
- VR Trainings (Immersive and engagement-driven learning) – Train your employees in VR with increased interactivity while reducing travel and training costs. Target groups – Any company with tangible products in their offerings
Dr. Christopher Richard, MD & Chief Cloud Architect, G7CR Technologies India Pvt Ltd
While COVID-19 will have its impact on health and life, it is important for a business to keep functioning and business operations must continue, else the COVID-19 with mortality of 3.5-4% will be a lesser problem compared to the death from poverty that economic recession will cause. The best way for businesses to continue operations is to try and get the same productivity from resources while the physical location of work changes. In India it is more of a comfort zone than a need to have everything physically present, this is the time for business to change and adapt and do it quickly.
Technology today makes it possible for most jobs to be done, efficiently, securely and smartly from anywhere and any device. G7 CR Technologies today is offering free migration, implementation and integration services to help businesses to move desktops and apps to the cloud, with complete integration of the communication and collaboration tools without compromising the security posture of the organization, ensuring distributed teams can work together productively and in good health.
Kumar Ranjan- Vice President at drivebuddyAI
From the days when things used to be more mechanical till today when things are now more digital, the way we work has changed drastically. Thanks to the big data and dot com bubble the software companies have patronized ‘work from home’ however there are still industries like ours which are both software and hardware. More than that the technology is being built for those who have to drive hours daily to make sure that we get our food supplies timely, those drivers who are driving during this corona pandemic are real heroes who are making sure that the medical supplies reach the hospitals in time.
They are faced by two risks, one that of coronavirus and the other of driving under stress which can cause fatal accidents. As of today still, more people are dying of road accidents than corona. Work from home is just a luxury that not everyone can afford! “
The world is seeing a serious shift to remote work, is it because of the pandemic caused or is it an wakeup call for the future of work? Crafting an employee experience for the work from home set up has become crucial now, for your economy to maintain the momentum!