This 2020 has been a desperate year, especially for the IT employees all over the world. Work from home has been proposed in almost all the companies around the globe. People from different environment and situations undergo different struggles or difficulties to give their self a comfy work environment.
Experience
Thought of sharing my experience on how this COVID-19 Quarantine changed my work culture and also the struggles faced during this period of time.
Connectivity:
The first and foremost issue which was the network connectivity and you all know that how much important the network connectivity is to work from home. Identify spots where you get good connectivity and no dead spots. Also tried different networks and found which one suits the best to work in a better way.
Bandwidth:
The second issue was with the availability of data, the mobile data was insufficient to do my routine hence I switched over to the new data plan by expanding up to 2 GB/day so that the data would be sufficient to do my routine without any issues and planning to get a Wi-fi connection to overcome this issue completely.
Environment:
Third one is noises played around by Television, mixer grinder, vehicles at home. The little champs at home which disturbs me in attending the meetings with my team members or managers. Concentration was big challenge as well. These distractions at home led to stress and frustration. Working without an office set up is a misfortune, so created a small workspace in my room with all the basic facilities that would give better working environment with more comforts.
“Home-work grew-up and became work-from-home”
Making best use of the situation:
Apart from the said difficulties, this quarantine really helped me out to focus more on learning and up skill myself. This happened as there is no travel time to office and I utilized that time by learning courses from different websites. Another advantage of this situation is the flexibility of time to do the work which increased the productivity.
Learnt more on the work life balance which would definitely help me in the future if the situation gets back to normal. This quarantine helped in motivating myself and showed my strengths & weakness that could take as a major benefit of this quarantine. Work from home has its own pros and cons but, it is quite easy to adopt ourselves to this culture.
Summary:
- Ensure you have dedicated work place allocated at home in the best way possible
- Declare work timings with office and family so that you don’t get disturbed
- Good connectivity solution organized with bandwidth for seamless working
- Make the best use of the time by up-skill, attain work life balance
Stay motivated, Happy working!!