WFH - A New Normal
Manoj Srivastava
Chief Information Officer at EaseMyTrip.com | Driving Innovation in Travel Technology
Lockdown 3.0 just started and the last couple of weeks we all are talking about WFH, now people are very familiar with WFH, and I am sure the industry has started developing a product to run an office from home. I must tell you for the IT industry WFH is not new normal, in some of the IT MNCs forced their staff to WFH but you know people are saying “Necessity is the mother of invention” but trust me nothing is invented to start WFH except corona told me.
But seriously I can see many new normal come across in our professional and personal lifestyle – post-COVID most of Indian IT, private and government-corporate sector may adopt WFH culture, WFH will be introduced as new normal, public, private and government organization very soon changing corporate HR rules, GOs and reforms new business processes for WFH.
WFM may not be applicable for all industries like manufacturing, logistics, or any physical oriented company/organization where human presence is required, but still some business functions, processes may be executed remotely, people still have a perception about WFH culture adoption but in majorly it is acceptable changes. We must understand the mantra of WFH is ‘Finish assigned task timely and accurately’, attendance many required for statutory purpose only –
Before WFH becomes new normal, let us see the PROs and CONs about it.
- There are many product/services are available in the market which is normally using even from office like WebEx, Microsoft team, GoToMeeting, Zoom, etc. corporate are using based on usages, company policy, and cost, however, same can be used WFH as well but with additional security and services.
- Only officials’ machines/laptops to be allowed to enter in official network WFH.
- VPN tunnel to be enabled in the laptop
- Official laptops to be configured in advance before using WFH
- Comprehensive IT policy to incorporated in the laptop.
- Services to be enabled/disabled in advance with password protected
- Do whitelist your home network IP address with your office server/cloud
- Auto synchronization policy applied
- Limited or no download allowed, use only FTP site for data/application, patches, files, PPTs download.
- In order to maintain official look & feel, keep your company’s logo in the background.
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