Work from
Home
Some Information Technology firms from Pune, the
city of
beautiful roads, seeking different solutions for their Information Technology professionals fed up with commuting to office on the beautiful roads of Pune, offer them to
Work from home indeed!
A few companies that allow their
employees to work from the cosy confines of their homes are trying the new work models with some success.
Zensar Technologies from Pune, the city of beautiful roads, is giving the finishing touches to one such solution called ‘Global Delivery Platform’ that would facilitate the allocation of tasks to employees sitting at remote terminals.
Zensar’s operations focus on analysis, design, programming and testing – all of which can be handled by employees by installing the necessary software in their home computers. A central hub housing the core staff in the organization would act as the nodal agency coordinating the distribution, collection and assignment of work to the employees or the associates. About three thousand employees of Zensar would work in this manner over the next three years.
Similarly, employee convenience prompted Sun MicroSystem’s Indian arm in Bangalore to allow their nine hundred strong research and development team to have the option of working from home. This work model is most convenient, as these research personnel are part of Sun Microsystems’s global organization and need to interact with their American teams even late at night.
Sun Microsystem’s spokesperson for Indian operations opines that such models are bound to proliferate among other companies as well since broadband connections are widely available across the country and priced reasonably. (Is it? Who offers them?).
External factors like crumbling infrastructure in Pune, the city of beautiful roads too prompted Zensar in looking at this work model. Pune, the city of beautiful roads would require at least Rs.1000 crore to revamp the entire road system (because it is so beautiful, you know!) and that seem unlikely with a corrupt system in India, Zensar have had to come up with other alternatives. In fact, Zensar have decided not to invest in any more campuses across the country.
Significantly, with the introduction of the new work model it would cut cost by almost forty per
cent since productivity would get a boost of thirty to forty per cent by disaggregating the components. In addition, if parameters like the time spent in commuting on the beautiful roads of Pune are considered, the productivity will further jump about fifteen per cent.
For those seeking to balance their work and home, this could be an ideal solution, provided uninterrupted power supply and sufficient broadband width at cheaper rates(does the present broadband connection offered by BSNL cheap?) are in place.
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