How Productive Is Work from Home?
Rajesh Rengasamy is learning farming from his father-in-law. They grow paddy, coconut and gram on their farm, a fourhour drive from Chennai. He is also a student of folk music. But that’s not what his ‘profession’ is. He is Director of Technology at digital business transformation company Publicis Sapient.
For most, passion and career never meet. That was the case for Rengasamy also until he moved from Bangalore to his hometown in Chennai in 2014. “The two-three hours I save every day on commute is a gift. I can do a lot more work and still have time for things I love.” It’s evident. Rengasamy has got two promotions in the last five years and has delivered multi-milliondollar projects, all working from home.
Such cases have been far and few in corporate India. While new-age firms always had the option of work from home, most employees did not opt for it. It didn’t seem ‘normal’ unless one had a personal situation to take care of. Often, there were things like being invisible to the boss and being left out.
But, Covid-19 changed all that.
The lockdown forced companies, big and small, old and new, to get their employees to work from home. After a month of
