Work from Home
Sameer Narkar
Founder at Konnect Insights - a unified customer experience management platform | Social Listening | Community Engagement
Work from home is challenging and I must admit it is not easy. Being a tech company people expect us to be someone who are experienced in WFH but I was never a fan of WFH. It can be an option sometimes when you cannot make it to office but I always believed the creators have to work together. That is where you can share ideas, fight over the table and come up with the best solution or simply enjoy the company of the brilliant minds you work with. And you miss all this if you are not in office.
Now that we are being forced into work from home here are some of my early thoughts on how we can make the most of it. This is what we are doing at Konnect Insights.
- Thanks to GoToMeeting all of us in the Tech team are very well connected. We start as usual at 9am and work till 6.30pm. (I was a little greedy here when I asked can we stretch a little more as we save on the travelling time. I got a No for that!). We talk as usual on GTM and sometimes play music too. A daily scrum at 9.30am happens and we share our agenda.
- I dress formally at home. In office we do not have a dress code and we are in smart casuals as we need to feel at home while in office. And now that we are working form home it is important that you feel you are in office.
- For the Business Development team, the meetings are now online and we are doing our best to get them. Work as usual for our BD team and the response is mixed for online meetings.
- We are utilising this time for our internal trainings. So that keeps us busy as well
- And it is also the best time for research. And this is the happiest team.
For those who have kids (and I have one too) and pets it can be difficult. So, I would love to hear your thoughts on how to deal with this cute little challenge.
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4 年I really like # 2. I feel I work so much better when I go through the same morning process I used to go through: get up, shower, get dressed in real clothes - not wear my pajamas all day. ??
Engineering manager / Delivery manager
5 年This is real tricky time for parents. Being March, workload is at its peak and same time kids are unhappy without their nursery buddies. However, we anticipated this 2 weeks before and had good time in hand to plan our quarenteen without little princess. We got her regular routine from nursery and tried our activities to match that to some extent. Arranging virtual play date is helping us. We started involving her in daily work and our workouts. She is currently surprising us with her best behavior and teachings bestow on her by her nursery. Surely it's blessing in disguise.?
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5 年With every team working from home be it clients or vendors, connecting with everyone is a challenge
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5 年Sameer Narkar one of the biggest challenges, especially when almost everyone is working from home is the infrastructure and connectivity.
Software Development Manager at Accenture
5 年We have 2.5 year old kid and atleast one person is there always with him , either Me or my husband. We have divided our duties and timings to spend with little one. I spend my time from morning 8am to 12pm with my kid and my husband spends from 4pm to 8pm. From 12-12.30 we give him some activity which he alone can manage like drawings , cutting papers, blocks etc. 12.30 to 1.30 is lunch time and then he sleeps from 1.30pm to 4pm. Also we get atleast 8hrs for our work and if more workload then once he sleeps in night we utilise some 1-2 hrs for office work. Now almost since last 2 weeks my kid is at home and he is learning good habits also like put plates on dining table before lunch / dinner , put his plate to washbasin , remove / wear clothes by himself , folding his clothes, wash hands with soap , cleaning table after having food etc. Sometimes helping me in fireless cooking like making buttermilk , sandwiches , chats etc. We are enjoying this time and this will create good memories with our little one .????