Month: October 2020

Part 1: Understanding Remote Jobs, Loneliness,and Solitude

Though loneliness and solitude appear similar to us, they are not quite the same. ‘Loneliness’ has a negative connotation attached to it, but ‘solitude’ is the state of being alone and yet not lonely. Global consulting firm Korn Ferry conducted a survey in June this year among working professionals regarding various aspects of working from home and returning back to the office. As per the survey findings, 50% of the participants (among 1044 professionals) are looking forward to “camaraderie with colleagues” once they are back in the office.

Remote working is fine if it is opted for by choice but being forced to work from home is altogether a different ballgame. With the pandemic curtailing social interactions entirely, the extrovert working professionals are feeling lonely. For people who love to work around great colleagues, the concept of work-from-home is difficult, says Gianpiero Petriglieri, Associate Professor at INSEAD, in his article, “In Praise of the Office.”

But, there is always a second side to every coin. Not everyone is feeling this ‘loneliness’. There are professionals who feel miserable and invisible on the work floor. These introverts have happily accepted remote working without a second thought. For them, this new normal has also been helpful in escaping the ‘crowd’ and enjoying their work in solitary confinement.

Deloitte has revealed in a survey that 55% of employees have not witnessed any change in work productivity due to lockdown and remote working. In fact, a California-based company has been successful in tracking a 47% rise in productivity amid this pandemic-borne work from home.

One much-needed reminder here is that being alone does not necessarily mean that you have to be lonely. On the one hand, where you may have missed the work-breaks and coffee sessions with your coworkers, similarly, on the other hand, some others have gained lots. The future of working from home has brought us up close and personal with their kids, parents, plants, pets, favorite corner of the house, in short, their personal lives.

So, is the post-COVID era of working blending the ideas and emotions of being lonely and enjoying solitude? Or would there be an option to choose from the two? Which one would you prefer?

The initial COVID-19 house arrest had been stretched way longer than we had initially expected. Hence, nothing looks more exciting than getting back to our much-missed workplaces now that the nation is unlocking itself. But, amid all this excitement, it is vital to note that the front desk or the reception area is going to show up as our first touchpoints and the obvious transmitters of the coronavirus.

So, without wasting a single more minute, the organizations need to do –

1. To cut down on the reception crowd
2. To deploy a no-touch visitor management solution

And NexAEI VisMate fits this requirement frame perfectly. It will help in the creation of a smart and futuristic workplace that is safe for all its visitors. So, we can consider it to be the ‘need’ of the new normal.

Time to dump your age-old traditional visitor management practices and welcome India’s very own & the world’s first-ever 100% free and touchless visitor management solution onboard, so that you can experience –

• Self-registration from visitor’s mobile
• Verified visitor KYC
• Pre-scheduled meetings
• Digital visitor card

Besides the touchless technology, security is another vital facet in such disruptive times. Keeping a vigilant eye on every visitor has been an obligation from time immemorial. With an apt visitor management solution, you will be able to keep a record of each visitor, safeguard your employees from undesirable/unapproved guests and thereby manage the floor traffic.

Organizations are leaving no stone unturned in deploying a one-for-all solution and take every possible measure to check the spread of COVID-19 from the office premises. It is vital that each visitor stepping in the office post this lockdown feels completely safe and is gifted with a premium experience.

It is about time we act more responsibly than we ever had and pick VisMate for effective visitor management in this new normal, or else we will be risking the wellbeing of innumerable office entrants. We cannot afford to commit such a grave error, can we?

Long gone are the days when you used to keep a visitor logbook on your reception desk and had to ask every visitor to fill in their credentials both during their check-in and check-out. Today is all about futuristic solutions, the ones that will make front office operations more convenient, businesses more secure, and above all, promote a COVID-ready touchless workplace.

Our way back to the office building after a prolonged work from home is not going to be an easy one, but the challenge was to do away with that ‘difficulty’. Providing contactless solutions, maintaining social distancing on the work floor, and adhering to WHO’s global workplace are the primary focus points.

And we, at NexAEI, came up with a solution that ticked off each of these requirements, a futuristic solution and just a perfect component for making a COVID-ready workplace. It accentuated our workplace with three major offerings:

Self-registration from visitors’ mobiles and thereby negate any form of touch at the front desk for checking in.

Verified visitor KYC so that visitor details as well as their health records can be documented and stored for an extra layer of security compliance.

Pre-inviting guests to do away with uninvited visitors and reduce chances of crowding at the reception with easy check-ins.

Our premium touchless solution proved to be in perfect sync with the ‘no-touch’ regulation of today’s quintessential COVID-ready workplace. We had been successful in doing away with ‘touch’ at our reception. Else, the reception desk or kiosk would have been the first and obvious point of virus transmission.

To summarize, it’s about time that you transform your traditional front office into a premium, futuristic reception as a modern-day crisis like today’s needs an advanced solution. And NexAEI VisMate Free Edition is that much-needed solution that can wipe off all your worries attached to employee safety in this new normal without leaving a single dent in the business operations. Click here to know all about us.