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Work From Home (WFH) |
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by Seshu Chamarty |
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These days of work tensions drive many to entertain an idea of Working From Home (WFH). I was one such convert way back. Difficulty in commuting in the city drove me into this career shift. My commuting involved equal effort, time and money (if not more) vis-à-vis my job. This was when my office was found on Google maps nearer to the second station on my trip to my native place for a holiday.
Those toying with the idea of WFH would Google for some sites that promise ingenious ways and means of working from home that also reward handsome dividends. They would see beautiful models smiling with new success flowing on to the webpage. A day will not be far off to realize what mirages are made of; after they were fleeced of bait money paid through their noses online with hardly any promised dividend. These jealous lots did not know a WFH guy is holed up all day as a prisoner of his own destiny in house arrest, sweating out to make a measly living. Goldsmiths, doctors, lawyers, astrologers, realtors, teachers at al. happened to be WFH professionals by tradition. Critics say that they were sticking to home only for the lack of sufficient institutions to accommodate them in the olden days. Thanks to the explosion of Information and communication technology (ICT), professionals from the other fields also joined WFH bandwagon. This I found when I ran into a young man who moved to the neighboring apartment. I was surprised to learn he was a WFH guy on the payroll of an MNC. I thought his company let him be a WFH person, and saved on his cab fare, Air-conditioning and power, workstation, and lastly free coffee/tea on hourly basis. The linked in Society may never know WFH professionals with all their distractions. A few find a mention here: 1.The working spouse keeps calling home ceaselessly and intermittently (using telephone/ mobile or both in addition to online chats) to check whether the maid servant had arrived, the dish on the burner turned off, the kids were approaching danger while playing, the old and infirm residents were falling in bathrooms or getting sick and needed ambulances. Other unpleasant things include attending to plumbing and carpentry repairs including killing of rare cockroaches. 2. The door-to-door salespersons knocking the door in quick succession duly knocking down the work in process. Happily for WFH Professionals (WFHP), they can take their breaks and fix coffee, tea, or whatever liquid or postpone the deliverables for a live match of cricket on TV.
Regarding the downside of WFH, there is an understandable fear that maids/ neighboring tenants may think these guys are jobless or at worse, unemployable. A solution can counter this communication gap — place a board on the door that reads, ‘Beware of WFHP’, and it puts to rest those wild speculations. Sadly, the family relations may turn sour since familiarity breeds contempt what with the same unshaven face popping up with drooping eyelids all day, thanks to the US/ UK timings. All said the poor WFHP can never go home happily at the end of the day, any day in his seven-day week.
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23-Oct-2012 | ||||||||||
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Comments on this Article
Seshu Chamarty 11/02/2012 08:02 AM
Padmaja Iyengar 11/02/2012 07:16 AM
hema 10/24/2012 02:19 AM |
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