Why Do You Need to be in Office? Work-Life Balance Discussion by TAIT

All of us are passing through stressful time due to the corona pandemic and our work-life Balance has disturbed. Certainly, Corona is a curse to humankind, but be it personal life or professional/businesses. In a time like this, many can see excellent opportunity to upskill themselves and organise their businesses in a better manner and also to change their personal lifestyles for good. This is certainly debatable and there can be different opinions about it.

Mumbai based, Trade Association of Information Technology, (TAIT)  on 12^th May 2021, conducted a panel discussion on Work-Life Balance for their members to discuss and share different aspects of the current situation.

A panel consisting of six business and thought leaders including, Ketan Patel CMD, Creative Peripherals & Distribution, Ajay Sawant, MD,  Orient Technologies, Gulbir Bhatia, Director Prime ABGB, Jatin Botadara, CEO The Cybertech, Nikit Rambhia, Jt.MD, Panache Digilife and Gopal Pansari, Director  Savera  Digital India organised for TAIT Members. A well attended and versatile panel discussion on Work-Life Balance was moderated by Viren Bavishi. TAIT Gen. Secretary.

During the extensive interaction, most of the facts that came out was very interesting and heartening. Neither pandemic nor lockdown was easy for any of us. And there is no fixed format to crack such lockdown challenges.

Right from March 2020, Just before Lockdown was announced some were ready and prepared with their entire team to work from home with good connectivity. Most of them developed a system and process to manage most of their activity with minimal staff without getting business affected even a bit. This was used by most as an opportunity to improve the system and processes of sales, HR and other aspects of the business.

A very surprising fact is digitisation was a buzzword but was not even implemented by much big-time organisation, which finally they adopted during and after lockdown up to some extent.

For many companies prioritized employee well-being by designing and implementing COVID policy with enough empathy. New challenges certainly create new opportunities, and many of us learned to generate an alternate source of income.

On the personal front, panelists used previous as well as current lockdown period to develop a habit like reading books, a habit of which they left after college days as getting into hectic business life. Some focused on fitness and lost weight, whereas some could set their hands in the kitchen and became the expert cook.

On a positive note, most of us realised minimalism in personal life is the key to learning from Pandemic.

Certainly, the pandemic has changed the mindset of not only IT Fraternity but the entire trade, and it has thrown an important question which most of us does not have an answer to is…

Why do you need your Staff to be in Office?

Towards the end of this Work-Life Balance session, while thanking all the Panelist, TAIT President Samir Parekh, briefed members about TAIT’s CSR plan, which helping needy members’ staff by way of providing them groceries and other necessities. Many IT vendors and members have contributed to the same and it will be executed soon.