HOW TO BE A REMOTE WORKING WARRIOR
Darpan Yadav, 22, was asked to work from home by his company three weeks before the government announced an official lockdown to control the spread of the coronavirus. He says, “My company was very cautious.” As an engineer, Darpan believes that there is potential of him forgetting his technical skills if he doesn’t use them for too long. While on quarantine, a few days back, on Twitter, Darpan came across Ayush Jaiswal’s tweet about a webinar which would tell people about the ways to work productively when working from home.
The webinar titled, Best Practices for Working from Home, will be organised next week, and is going to address topics such as how to set up a home office, how to discipline yourself and how to celebrate small wins while working from your home. Ayush, who is the joint-CEO and cofounder of Pesto Tech, says, “From the day of our inception, using technology to enable efficiency and productivity has been our topmost priority. We have been championing remote work for over a year now. With the spread of Covid-19, we decided to help everyone who are going to be working remotely.”
For Darpan, the idea was to be part of a system that helps him get done with “at least 50% to 60% of his work”.
Ayush’s company provides engineers with borderless opportunities but also gives them access to remote jobs across all counties. “We always promote remote work culture in our organisation. Work from home is hard but once you learn it, it’s going to add a ton of values. It gives you access to talent globally, reduces your expenses by 40 to 60%, makes work efficient and helps you move faster. And also, this would lower the probability of the spread of the coronavirus. So, we thought of using our skills to train people with the help of a webinar on how they could still be productive at their jobs,” Ayush adds.
With the spread of Covid-19, we decided to help everyone who is going to be working remotely.
AYUSH JAISWAL, JOINT CEO AND CO-FOUNDER, PESTO TECH
EVEN PLAYING FIELD
“The thing with working from home or working remotely is that you either end up doing a lot of work or you don’t at all,” says Disha Shetty, a journalist based out of Bengaluru, who has a work from home set up with her company. She adds that the coronavirus lockdown shows that a lot of our work can be done from home. “Many people travel long distances in trains to come to their respective work places, but perhaps, most of their work can be done from home. It’s time to probably think about that,” she says.