Remote Control: Indian Startups And The ‘Work From Home’ Life

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Remote Control: Indian Startups And The ‘Work From Home’ Life

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Such a drastic change in behaviour has obviously had an impact on businesses everywhere, including in India, where many IT giants, startups and corporates have also asked employees to work from home.
Based on our conversations, some of the prominent challenges faced by companies include team bonding, delay in hiring processes, and infrastructure inadequacies.
AI-based hiring company PMaps is planning to host a two-hour video conference with the team every Friday to discuss life beyond work.
To overcome that, MobiKwik is providing employees with virtual collaboration tools, and arranging informal chats between members so they’re better connected and work goes as usual.
“The entire team of Testbook works like one big family but achieving that culture would be hard in the case of remote-only working.
We’ve heard of ideas of remote team dinners, informal sessions but still not sure if they would help that much,” he said.
Tapchief’s Shashank Murali believes the biggest challenge for most companies will be to ensure high spirits amongst team members in these turbulent times.
Besides keeping employee spirits high, startups have also been grappling with how remote work has impacted the hiring and onboarding of new recruits.
While most have put new hiring on hold, many are relying on a combination of online interviews and remote working tools to onboard new employees.
In any other circumstances, remote work might not have been restricted to just working from home, remote employees could have worked from a cafe or coworking spaces or even from their friends’ place.
“Apart from the physical presence, work from home policy amid the crisis is turning out to be productive and motivating for our employees.
Personally, I am finding myself super productive and working harder than normal,”- MobiKwik founder, Upasana Taku
Many claim to be using these extra hours to finally achieve work-life balance, learn new skills and others said this has even reduced stress levels in employees

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