Boom in remote working
View(s):In these unprecedented times where people across the globe are confronting COVID-19 and adjusting their lives accordingly, more and more firms are shifting towards remote working or working from home.
Concerns about the COVID-19 virus have led many companies to engage in remote working, as the government is encouraging or requiring people to stay home with the country going on lockdown with the current curfew.
“It is very interesting to observe how quickly employees have shifted from working in offices to working from home,” an official of an industrial firm noted to the Business Times.
He said during the past few weeks, substantial insight and perspective into big behavioural shifts show that companies of all sizes in Sri Lanka and all over the world are pushing for remote work.
The Ceylon Chamber of Commerce (CCC) as an entity has been encouraging remote working and in fact held its recent chamber committee meeting via videoconferencing. “Many participated,” Manjula de Silva, Director General/CEO, CCC told the Business Times.
“This is all to stem the spread of the virus and flatten the curve. What we need to keep in mind is that,” another official of a fast moving consumer goods company, said.
The sustained nature of the outbreak has compelled certain companies that might otherwise have not been in line with their employees working from home being forced to experience it now, a company CEO pointed out.
He added that now many employees will be learning how to be productive when working from home, and how to liaise with colleagues outside office.
- (DEC)