Workspace odyssey: Returning to work in a new world

A band jamming over video calls, an entrepreneur moves office to her dining table: What going back to work means in a pandemic

Aug 01, 2020, 10:28 IST3 min

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Nagpur: Jitendra Sarda, director, Shri Vyenkatesh Casting"Work is tiresome and requires long hours," says Jitendra Sarda, director, who resumed work about two months ago. For him, a typical week includes travelling four times to a stone-crushing unit in Pachgaon, 22 km away. For the rest of the week, he travels to a dolomite mine in Sausar in Madhya Pradesh, where work is expected to begi

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Ahmedabad: Gopinath Dhandapani, AVP, sales, Cygnet InfotechDhandapani tested positive for Covid-19 on July 10. With his wife in Dubai, he couldn’t quarantine at home and had to be shifted to a hotel in accordance with the rules of the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation. But unlike a lot of other patients, Dhandapani continued working while battling the disease. “I never considered taking sic

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Kochi: When Chai Met Toast (indie band)(Clockwise from top left) Achyuth Jaigopal, Ashwin Gopakumar, Palee Francis, Sailesh PaiWhen Chai Met Toast released their first single "Maybe I Can Fly" from their upcoming debut album When We Feel Young in mid-July, with all four band members working from their homes and Francis putting it together at his home studio. “We had an album coming up, so

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Bengaluru: Balagopal KV, Growth Lead, AirmeetBalagopal never owned a vehicle, and didn’t care for one. He would rent a Yulu two-wheeler every day to get to a co-working space, about 20 minutes from home. Since the lockdown, the co-working space has shut down, but he continues to work from home. “Since we had launched Airmeet just months before the lockdown, the timing worked out really we

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Jaipur: Shweta Mewara, Co-founder and creative director, Gulmohar LaneThe pandemic has completely redefined the workspace for Mewara, an entrepreneur and a mother. “Extensions of our lives outside our home, from kids’ play area to office, have suddenly all moved in,” says Mewara, who now works from her dining table. The struggle is real, as she has to balance her two-year-old’s routine wi

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