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One more reason is Work-from-home disturbs your
our careers, friends, families, and health. We realised
focus a lot as there is a lot of activities going around in
the importance of balancing work and personal life,
the house like guest coming, mother preparing food in
setting aside time for each significant person in our
kitchen, TV voices etc. The pandemic undoubtedly taught us the true value of
lives and, most importantly, being healthy and fit.
You might argue on this that it’s not like Office will
have complete silence around, you are right but still We witnessed the output of having had the opportuni-
it’s an office, hence those noise and disturbances will ty to do work from home and now when the world is
not be something personal to you, hence it will not taking pace and people are returning to their
distract you so much. workplaces, the question arises in everyone’s mind
about what the future of employment will be, WFH,
Stating the above reasons in conclusion, I feel it was WFO, or Hybrid?
good to have a life where both your work life and
personal life was separate and once you were back Let's discuss the cost of WFO, including both the
from office leaving all tensions behind and just monetary cost and the irrecoverable cost that is
relaxing with family and spending time with them. causing environmental pollution. We recently
observed World Environment Day. We all talk about
safeguarding the environment in our Facebook and
Due to our routine, our family life has also got affected
as their whole day revolves around us and they have WhatsApp status updates, but what steps are we
no routine of their own especially mothers and house actually taking to do so?
wives.
From our productive time bucket, we are spending
around 1 to 2 hours on an average in commuting to our
When there is a meeting we tell everyone to be quiet
as person on the other end will not repeat what they offices. As soon as we arrive, every colleague wants to
said. Don't you feel your family should also have know what’s happening in each others lives and of
control over their life and house? But due to your work course, around 1 hour goes in smoke and tea breaks.
you have made the entire house your office. It is not a
home anymore, especially for the people who are While WFH enabled us to retain our productive time
living there. bucket by allowing us to spend less time travelling,
chatting, and taking brief breaks. WFH proved to be
Seeing the pros and cons of WFH and WFO, I feel we the finest platform, especially for the female person-
can utilise the pros of both if we work in a hybrid nel because they could easily balance their personal
model. and work lives. Additionally, a lot of studies have noted
that when people work from home, pollution levels
decrease.
The prevalent hybrid culture that is currently being
practised by many firms is proving to be the greatest
Prerna Sharda option for employment. By providing their best work
and helping their businesses succeed, employees can
maintain a great work life balance too.
Sonal Shrivastava