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Amidst Coronavirus threats spreading all over, major companies are giving a freehand to their staff for Work From Home (WFH) culture.
Peter Quinlan, Vice President of Unified Communications and Collaboration Product Management, Tata Communications on How the company’s flexible working policies and a variety of unified collaboration technologies adopted is aiding the employees to stay safe in their home as the COVID- 19 virus spreads across the globe quoted, “Tata Communications is fortunate in that, as a global company with a highly distributed workforce, for some time now we’ve had in place flexible working policies - like work from home, flexible working hours, bring-your-own-device (BYOD) and virtual collaboration environments – as well as a variety of unified collaboration technologies widely adopted within the company. While we have introduced certain travel restrictions in the current scenario, employees have taken this in stride since collaboration with remote colleagues was already the norm, and our teams are quite comfortable leveraging chat, voice, video and collaboration tools to get their jobs done. Companies that find this a new experience as they respond to the threat of Coronavirus need not despair, however, as today’s technologies can be readily deployed from the cloud and introduced to users with really minimal training. I believe the effect of this outbreak will be both an immediate acceleration of organizations’ plans for collaboration technologies and flexible work policies, as well as a longer-term shift in people’s willingness to embrace these technologies – it will become the new “normal”. We already live in a world where users are always connected through personal devices and fast internet connections. Coronavirus appears set to create a compelling event for people to change their working habits. If it lasts for more than a few weeks, as it appears on track to, those changed habits will become permanent. While it may be unplanned, now is a great time for companies to look at how they enable and empower their distributed workforce to collaborate, and doing so will pay dividends into the future, long after the current threat has subsided.”
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