 Good morning, all of you. I'm very much happy to introduce myself. This is Fael Dutta, Assistant Professor, Department of Commerce at Soho College. And this is Soho College Prison Dot Talk webinar series. It's my pleasure to be the moderator for this session. Soho College, I can say it's one of the best things I could do about sharing that. So we continue this strive for excellence and try to create a positive impact in every field we pursue. Coming to Soho Dot Talk series, it is our 17-dota webinar session, which is organized by the Department of Commerce and Management with Soho College. The Soho College Dot Talk series is a digital platform, which allows or encourages speakers and intellectuals to share their thoughts, ideas, from their prominent field. Now, not taking much time, I would like to welcome our speaker, Dr. Jhajit Sathya. Dr. Jhajit Sathya, Department of Commerce at Soho College. From the topic, work from home, I would say. Now, work from home is not a new term, which is intensively used in the present global crisis, which we are going in the pandemic COVID-19. Work from home is something like we are usually going through it. And it's helping us to continue with our work to deal with the day-to-day affairs, which we are doing in our work. Now, when we discuss about this, work from home encourages. When we are doing that, we can say that as this term is extensively used, it uses the digital platforms, such as Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, and then with these digital platforms, various meetings, and all these discussions are taking place in the work environment. And with these digital platforms, women capital of all organizations are able to continue with routine work. Now, when we are precisely talking about work from home, the education sector is the worst affected by this pandemic COVID-19. And our speaker, he will give his discussion, his stand on the work from home for the educators for big organization institutes. Now, I would like to describe his profile. Dr. Jhojit Sanyal, he's an assistant professor in the Department of Commerce, Assam University. Prior joining to Assam University, he was working as a faculty in Lalit Bharali College, Guwahati. He was also a guest lecturer in Guwahati University and a junior researcher. He loves writing, and he has written two novels and one short story book. He has also edited a book, Managing Human Resource in the 21st Century. Now, not taking much time, I would like to give my time to the speaker, Dr. Jhojit Sanyal, and I would request the participants to kindly mute your mic during the session is going on and use a chat box if you have any query to ask where the session is ongoing. Thank you, sir, please take your time. Okay, good morning, everyone. I think my voice is audible to everyone. I hope so. Yes, sir, we can hear you. Yes, we can hear you, sir. Okay, thank you, Payal, for giving my introduction and as well as the giving a synoptic view of the topic we have been discussed today. So I think I will be starting with the presentation then. Yes, sir, yes, sir. Okay, I'm presenting from my screen, okay? Yes, sir. Payal, just tell me if you are able to see my screen, because- Yes, sir, not yet, not yet, sir. We can't see the screen now. Can you see my screen now? No, no, sir, no, sir, no, sir. Not yet? No, no, sir, no, sir. You are not seeing my screen? No, sir. But I am presenting already. Sir, please close the file once again and you can open it and share it once again. I mean, just close it and open it once again. Close the IPV slides and you can share it once again. Oh, you are not seeing my screen now? No, no, sir, no, sir. Here I have already given the present option. Kind of problem again. Sir, can you share it now? Well, can I get this download option? It's in the file option, sir, file menu. When you open the PPT, there is a file option you can download it. I am sharing it with your Google ID, okay? Okay, okay, sir. Just see if you are getting it. In my mail ID, sir, college mail ID? Not college mail ID, Gmail. Okay, yes, sir, I'm checking it, sir. You got it? I'm checking, sir. I got it, sir. I'm sharing. Got it? Yes, yes, sir, I'm sharing. Okay, okay, you just share it then. I think you can see. I can see, but it's not quite clear over here. Anyways, it's a little bit slow, I presume. Hi, Payal, that present option is there. If you click on it, the slides will go into the presentation mode, which will also increase the font size. Okay. Upper right corner, besides share, you have the present option. Yeah, I did it, I did it, I did it, yeah. All right, all right. Yes, sir, you can proceed. Okay, so as you can already see on your slide that what topic for today is with regard to the term, work from home. Payal, can you just, yes, yes, keep it here. Second, second, second. You can just skip to the second slide. Go to the second slide, yes, okay, okay. So, work from home as this is a term which for us in our country, I think this is relatively new for many of us if I'm not wrong. But this term is not actually a new term to be heard about or spoken about in the last few months. This has been evident in many other countries where they have adopted this policy of work from home. Well, can you go to the next slide? Okay, now here you see, this is a telecommunication organization that is in 1994, you see. It was around in 1994 on the 20th of September where around 32,000 of AT&T employees stayed home. Now, this was not because of coronavirus or any kind of virus attack during that period of time. They weren't see coronavirus strike, they were telecommunicating. So you see, employees ranging from the CEO to phone operators were part of an experiment that involved one lakh people. It's purpose to explore how far a vast organization could go in transforming the workplace, the moving the work, the worker, instead of the worker to work. Today, AT&T is just one among many organizations pioneering the alternative workplace. So here we use the term AW, that is your alternative workplace. It need not necessarily be a office setup, you see. It may be anywhere, we can work from anywhere. This is what they proved. And I'll tell you what was the result out of it, what were the benefits out of it. I'll just come to that as well. We have time for that, I presume. Well, go to the next slide, please. You see now, this is about the global giants who have adopted work from home in the last few months. I'm not directly coming to India right now, but let us talk about Google and Facebook, for example, because they are quite popular and we are using all of these technologies being provided by these giants. Like, we are using Google Meet right now. It is from the out of Google. Now, you see, Google and Facebook, they have already told their workers that they did not necessarily have to come to the workplace, office setup for work purposes till 2021, you see. Amazon said its headquarter employees will stay home at least till October. Microsoft told stuff Monday that working from home remains optional through October for most employees. Though the company will allow some workers to voluntarily return to their office in stages. Obviously, there are some groups of employees that are required to go to the office setup for some kind of work that cannot be avoided. We cannot say that everyone can work from home. But yes, obviously, what is the necessity of working from home at the moment is that we need to contain the spread of this coronavirus. And you see again, Twitter decided to give up on timeline altogether, telling most employees they can just work from home forever, you see. So, this is the scenario in the global arena, I would say. Payal, next slide, please. Now, India also had some, I mean, some positive sides of it, like you see in the IT and the business processing organizations, what happened is that almost 4.3, that is two-third, two-third of the workforce, they have already moved to this work from home model. This is source I have provided over here. But there are some regulatory issues that need to be addressed, obviously, to contain this problem of working from home. Next slide, Payal, next slide. Are there facing any issues with changing the slides? Hi, Payal, the slide is stuck on global giants adopting WFH. Are you not able to change the slides in this case? Well, obviously, we are facing connectivity issues everywhere, this is the main issue with regard to using of internet and other kinds of things. It's a big issue, big concern for everyone. Can you see it, sir? Yes, I can see it. It's not quite visible. Yeah, I can see it. Yes, just present from here, yeah. Now, coming to the difference, what I find is that the IT sector has been able to conceive this idea of work from home and they are working well. Because from past evidence, we have seen that many countries have adopted this, especially while it's the IT sector. But what about the non-IT sector? As I said that it is the education sector and the corporate sector, some of the corporate sectors, obviously, not all. They have not been able to utilize this work from home, actually. There are some problems, obviously, related to it. Now, big IT companies, that's okay. Like Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, fine, it's a little thick here. But see, what about the workers of the small and medium companies or non-IT sector, which are worst hit, as most of them are unaware or are unable to manage, how to collaborate, how connecting tools work amid coronavirus pandemic. So this is an issue you see. I'll go to the next slide. This is an issue that has not been actually thought about. Obviously, this pandemic is all of a sudden, it is not a planned pandemic, obviously. But the thing is that we need to manage what is to be done at this point of time. Now, small companies from education sector to corporate, all are scrambling to get their acts together. A threat of coronavirus reaches their premises, forcing them to send their employees home with old age laptops, poor hardware, slow internet. We are evident of that, obviously. And with no power backup like UPS. And our advice to connect through software like Zoom, Google Hangouts, obviously Hangout is now it is Meet, Microsoft Team, Flock, et cetera. There are so many devices, obviously, which we can use to connect each other. All the employees may be connected. But there are problems. I told you, what are these problems, sir? Video conferencing, messaging, collaboration tools and document sharing are just a few example of technologies that facilitate remote work. Additional bandwidth and network capacity may also be needed given the increasing number of users and volume of communication. So you see at one point of time when there was just 100, for example, I'm just giving an example, there are 100 number of people using the internet connectivity sitting at home from nine to five in the morning, a whole day. Now we find that there are a thousand number of people using the same bandwidth. So what is the problem? The internet connectivity gets losing, right? That is the problem we are facing right now, for example. See, file, next slide. Okay, technology adaptation, finally. So are we ready to actually adapt this technology or not? This is a question that moves us, everyone. Last three months we have been thinking whether we are ready to adopt this technology or not. Obviously, adoption of technology is a primary kind of a nature in this kind of situation. And being in this 21st century, obviously, there are a lot of things that are being easily done with the help of this technology. But are we prepared to use them in a proper manner or not? Now here you see, moving in the technology the trend has never been a forte of Indian companies. Let alone being ahead in the technology game. Many of the smaller medium-sized business still do not think that technology can help those business and productivity. The old manager can't comprehend that the employee can work remotely but still deliver. They love to see the employees logging in the office for long hours in front of them. A lot is needed to be changed to accept remote working culture in India. The pandemic might bring the necessary change. Today we are being forced to work from home. But just think of the fact three months back or maybe six months back if you would have wanted to work from home would your employer have allowed you that? I don't think so because in India that is not a kind of a thing that is allowed. That is allowed or maybe that is encouraged because employer wants to see you sitting in front of you working because they are not sure whether you are going to work at home or not. This is one issue, you see. And so finally, maybe this pandemic will allow us to think out of the book that whether it's time that we finally use this technology. Well, next slide please. Okay, now here you see what is the scenario? India and the rest of the nations. Not the rest of the nations but I'm talking about the developed nations obviously over here. Where do they stand? Many companies in Europe and the US have been conditioned to work from home as a result of which they had a robust cybersecurity system to access data and enable an environment outside of the firewall. Organizations who have been implementing cloud-based solutions for their key applications could simply shift operations to home. That was very easy for them because you see they have been using this technology. They have been using this idea of working from home for a long time, from a long back obviously. Google for example, they did never have restrictions for their employees that they have to be at their workplace for 10 hours in a day. They can work from anywhere, it was there. Obviously it was for not all categories of employees but many, for many they could work from home. But in Indian firms, which have been forced to implement work from home, remember we have been forced. It was not like the employers wanted us to work from home but since the government pursued them, they should allow their workers to work from home because of this lockdown strategy, nothing else. From home policies, short notice have to strengthen their data storage and security systems. Employees need to be vigilant against potential phishing attacks, false emails or text messages from malicious actors posing as their bosses seeking vital data. So there is always this problem in India, you see. This is a big problem, security systems, data storage. How many of us have this Google data storage of 500 GB? We are not paying for that obviously. We are using this free service. We are using 15 GB for data storage, storing our data, you see. Why don't we use it? Because we have never felt the necessity. This is one reason, you see. And the next thing is that if we store our data in the Google Cloud, the problem is that can we retract it back? Because we need proper internet connectivity whenever we want to get it back. So it may happen that at that point of time, when you want to see that data, there is no internet connectivity. This is quite evident in India. This is a big problem. File next. Now, the question is that, is it the time to embrace the remote work culture in India? This is a question in front of us. This is a big question. And to some extent, we have already been using, though the lockdown strategy has gone somehow in some places. This has been normalized in many places. But yet, we never know that how long will be under the attack of this pandemic or this coronavirus. So it might so happen that we might be having to use this work from home culture for a long period of time. And sometimes for some sectors, it may become a permanent phenomena. And now, why do Indian companies seem hesitant to embrace the remote work culture? This is the question now. Next slide. Now, here you see, I have a list of these five problems. Yes, I can see. So here, I have listed down these five problems that may be evident actually for why the Indian companies are quite hesitant to use this work from home culture. The first you see now, lack of infrastructure. Now, working remotely comes with its own set of challenges such as having access to internet with a decent speed. While macro cities boost a lot of options for remote working like co-working spaces and cafes where you can use free Wi-Fi, the same cannot be said of smaller cities and towns. Now, say if you are having a Zoom or Google Meet call scheduled or need to send out important emails and your internet gives you trouble. We all know how that feels. Obviously, I'm also feeling the same, you see. I was trying to present but unable to present the same. So this is a kind of a thing that hampers our morale, you see. Also, a lot of what this is relies on the internet. People store and access files in the cloud and all this means your systems are sinking and dependent on the internet. So next, we come to the problem of privacy. Yeah, this is another big problem in front of us. While everyone seems to be talking about the growing prevalence of nuclear families, the concept of joint families still exist in our country. It may not be possible for a person working from home to have a separate room, all for himself to work from. Family members might unconsciously work his or her privacy. It could result in distraction and might affect the quality of work as well. Then we have this cultural stigma as well. What is this cultural stigma? Now you see, as I told you already in the beginning itself that there is a preconceived notion in many employers that employees do not work at home. They become quite lazy when it comes to working from home. Now moving on with this cultural stigma, I'll tell you working from home is not yet a mainstream activity in India and that is why it is looked upon with negativity. Working from home has never been a part of our culture and people don't take it seriously yet. There are all sorts of preconceived notions about people working remotely, like he or she is lazy or socially awkward. It is hard to find the mindsets of people around you who feel that you are probably doing nothing substantial with your life, no matter how significant project you must have taken on. Now this is one reason you see cultural stigma. Coming to the next one is fear of lack of productivity. So obviously, even most of us, even I personally feel that there is a lot of lack in productivity when it comes to working from home, especially for the people belonging to the education sector. I do not know about this IT sector. I don't think they are lacking any kind of productivity because they are well trained to work from home. But when it comes to, for example, this other sector, this non-IT sector, there is lack of productivity. Now you see, even though one of the major factor to support remote working is to avoid the time wasted in commuting, it paints a very dreary picture, but the same employees do not work product, work productively and achieve the desired results. It is for this very reason that managers frown upon work from home policy. A lot of time this park is used non-judiciously leading to productivity issues. Differences in salaries is the next one. Now, what happens is that when it comes to differences in salaries, like if your organization is located, say, out of Mumbai, okay, I'm just taking this name of a town city, and you are working remotely from Pune. You could be offered a salary in the standard of living in New York City. The same position could be fetching a higher salary if an employee is out of office. This is also one of the factors which discourages employees from working from home. So you see, these are the main reasons why I think that in India, the work from home culture may take, I'm not saying it cannot be adopted or it should not be adopted, but it might take a little bit longer period of time to adapt. Okay, so Paila, please go to the next slide now. Okay, so I made a short study in the last week. This was done with the educationist from different parts of the country, you see. Now, how did they gather this data? Obviously using technology. I use this Google Form to collect the data. Not only that, I use WhatsApp. I used mail id, so I sent them a Google Form to understand what they think with regard to using of this technology or what do they think with regard to the concept of where work from home. So here you can see my respondents belong to different age groups. You can see over here. And although I cannot see it properly here, it's not visible clear, but I think majority of them belong to the group of 31 to 40 years here. If I'm not wrong. So anyways, Paila, please go to the next slide. Okay, this is the different positions held by them in different institutes. Like most of them are assistant professors, right? Some of them are also, as you can see, some of these respondents were responded to me. Some of them are professors, some of them are research scholars, but who are also actively involved in teaching. And some of them are educators as well. So next slide, please. Okay, so what kind of institutions do they belong to? So you can see that most of them belong to your PG and above organizations, UG organizations, UG institutions, and as well as your both PG and UG. Next. Okay, now this is interesting. You see over here, I asked them to rate that how satisfied are they from this work from home and insurance? So here I just find that here obviously one means they are highly satisfied and five means they are highly dissatisfied. So I see that only around 35% if I'm not wrong, it's not clear on my screen, but it is 35% of them who are moderately satisfied. So very less percentage of people, less percentage of people who are satisfied from this work from home management. So this is the scenario at the moment, as you can see. Now, this is another question that I asked them that whether they are feeling optimistic or pessimistic working from home. So here I have seen that most of them are feeling majority of the respondents felt pessimistic, almost 40% if I'm not wrong. They felt pessimistic about working from home. That is they are not happy with this work from home. And interestingly, some of them said that it's almost 27% they are not wrong here. That they think that it's the same thing for them whether they're working from home or working from their office. Next. Here I asked them about what are the basic three biggest challenges they face when it comes to working from home. So we see that internet connectivity, it's 45 number of responses that is 60% here. So internet connectivity and another one is your communication with students is harder. So obviously it has been quite hard for all of us in the last few months, communicating with the students because we are all accustomed with communicating with the students in the class, the physical arena. But here we are using this virtual classrooms and obviously that has been a big problem for every one of us. So apart from that, you can see there are a lot of different choices being given by these respondents. Too many distractions at home. It also poses a great challenge. Keeping a regular schedule obviously nine to five is a different issue and keeping a regular schedule at home is also a different issue. Okay, so a lot of issues are here you can see. Okay, next. Okay, now do you have all the equipment that you need on order to work from home? We can see that majority of them have said no. This is an issue again. What are the equipments that you might be requiring? Maybe a printer, maybe a projector for taking such kind of classes, online classes. Though we have this Google and other platforms, but somehow it might take some time for us to adjust to this kind of things and that is why maybe they said that we do not have enough equipments to work from home. Next file, dedicated workplace. So here again you see we do not, 54% of the respondents have responded that they do not have a dedicated workspace at their home. What is a dedicated workspace? Somewhere that nobody can disturb or distract them while they are taking their classes or working from home. So majority of them here again do not have this kind of dedicated work. Now, how many of these respondents think that they keep a regular schedule? Just 20%. Most days around 33%. So you see here also, usually when you are working from one of these days, what you find is that we have a regular schedule, but when you are working from home, evidently you can see that not everyone is able to keep a regular schedule of the same. File next. Okay, now this is another shocking point you see. Here, what is this percentage file? I cannot see. 66.2%. No, 66.2% of the people think that they did not have any such kind of, their institution have not provided them with ample training to take online classes or use these IT tools. Now, this is a very, very shocking point. We are in the 21st century and we have lots of IT products that can be used for enhancing this teaching learning process. But unfortunately, our organizations in India, education institutions in India have failed to provide because you see why I'm saying in India because this data is collected from different teachers, education is from different parts of the country, not just North East Assam. So I feel that this is a very sorry part to say. And I don't blame this pandemic or coronavirus for taking up this work from home culture. But this is a separate thing. We should have been somehow trained to use these IT products by now. So that somehow, somehow to some extent, we could have used it. But here, I'm sorry to say this is the real picture you can see. Yeah, some of them have said that some tutorial videos were being sent on how to use Zoom. Okay, some of them have also responded, I'm not aware of it till now, you see. Just this data is collected if I'm not wrong 10 days back. So even after two weeks, even after two weeks, sorry, two months, we see that many of them, many of not many, but some of them are still unaware of how to use these things or what to do now. Okay, next file. Okay, now access to various e-books. You see here the result. What is it? Pile 71%, right? 71.6%, yes, sir. So you see 71.6% of this respondents say that their institutions have not provided them with access to e-books. Now, e-books are costly. E-books are quite costly. And at this point of time, many of us could not even visit our institutions to collect our physical books, do not have access to libraries. You cannot go anywhere obviously during this lockdown period, right? So e-books are the only one source that can be used. But unfortunately 71% of these respondents belonging to various educational institutes in the country have said that their institution have not provided the same. Next file. Okay, now you see 63.5% of these respondents, educationists, said that their productivity level has been empowered because of this work-from-home culture. See, this is a very, very sad story I would say. Even I feel that my productivity level has gone down somehow. I'm not happy with this work-from-home arrangements. But this is something that we are forced to use. Obviously there is no other way. Okay, next. Earlier one, earlier one, earlier one file, yeah. Now, health hazard, this is something very important and very something what you can see. But what are the health hazard, this people, I mean the respondents came to me and said to me, because of this work-from-home arrangements. So you can see from here, we have this neck issues and formalities. I am also feeling the same obviously in the last few months. Then there is this, what is it? Eye problems, yeah. You can see many of us are facing the same kind of problems because we have to spend long hours using our laptops and mobile phones. Then we have this anxiety, depression. Then we have this obesity problem. So this is another thing, obesity problem. Because during lockdown you cannot go anywhere, you cannot go for exercises, you cannot go for work. You are devoured from any kind of physical work. So obviously you are just sitting home, taking some classes, making notes, sitting on and on, on and on and you are going to face some kind of obesity problem. So apart from that, there are other problems that are also there, but these are the major things that these respondents have said that they are facing these kind of issues in the last few months, right? Next one, okay. Now, does work-from-home require added mental efforts? 82% said that yes, so you can see. So it is requiring more mental efforts. Why? Because we are not trained. We have not been trained in the last few years to use these different kinds of options to work-from-home, obviously. So this is one issue. Next, I think we are coming to the end, yeah. So I've given a picture over here. I think everyone can see that. I guess not end, there is a thank you as well pile, but okay, you can take some questions now, I guess. I also have some comments from the different respondents who have actually said that what are the positive effects they are having and what are the negative effects they are facing. I can share that, because obviously I cannot share my screen, I have to share it to pile. Pile can show it later on at the end, obviously. Now, let us take some questions or if you have some queries. I think we can go on with that now. Pile. Thank you so much, sir. I would now request our participants. If you have any last questions or if you have any questions, can you even use the chat box to ask your questions or you can unmute your mic and continue with the question. Okay, meanwhile, our audience asks a question. I would like to ask you a question, sir. Sir, since this work-from-home is getting popular and unless this pandemic gets a solution, we have to continue with this normal. So as you discussed the issues, what do you think we can overcome or we can do something so that these issues can be overcome to some extent? What do you suggest, according to you? Now, these issues according to me are something like, what should I say? Main issue is with regard to training of how we can use these different technological devices today. So until and unless we do not have a proper training of the same, we cannot use it, obviously. It is quite impossible for all of us to use. Secondly, we come to this internet connectivity. This is the main problem, I feel, because we cannot just keep on, I mean, waiting, scrolling, buffering, this kind of things. This is something that always hampers our mindset. But when you look at these developed countries, they are using it very well because the bandwidth limit they have is more than us. And while you have been a part of Assam University, if I'm not right. Exactly, sir. So you are very much aware of the network problem in the campus itself. I'm sure. Exactly, exactly. Because we are two years. So even today, apart from Jio, we do not have even 3G service of AirTail or Vodafone. Vodafone, you do not have network at all. This is the situation even after so many years. So what can we expect now? Just tell me. This is the problem. There are a lot of places where you do not have even the minimum network to use. You see, you cannot make phone calls, forget about any kind of video calling. Forget about that. Okay, thank you, sir. Anyone who requires a participant, you can unmute your mic and ask questions. I think, sir, we have a question in the chat box and we'll read it out for you. Okay, just a minute. I'm going to send you something, just wait, so that you can show it later on. Just a minute, one file, because I cannot show it, obviously. It's not working over here. Okay, just let me take the question after that. Okay, we have a question from a person from abroad. It's in the chat box, sir. I'll read it out for you. It's in the question in the chat box. It's from Prasanchit Bhadra. He's the assistant professor from the College. He says that on part of the employer, how to access the performance of the employees during work from home? He says that he asks that on part of the... Oh, yeah, sir, can I say? Yeah, yeah. Can I explain that? Okay, sir, first of all, thank you very much for your presentation. It was very good. My question is on part of the employer, how to, I've just written the spelling wrong, how to access the performance of the employees during those who are doing work from home? Because at the end of every semester or after the year end, we need to do a performance reporting in order to put the weightage on each employee. So how to access the performance of the employees on part of the employer? Okay, so are you asking with regard to ID sector or what are you asking with regard to education sector? Basically education sector because we are... Basically education sector. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I have already seen that some of these private organizations I've seen, okay. So they are using this Google Classroom platform, okay. So we are keeping an eye on the employees, you see. How? In the Google Classroom, there is a classroom. There are a number of students added there and each students are assigned with a particular teacher, okay. But this teacher is required to assess them. Now, whenever this teacher is assessing them, the employee is also keeping an eye then what he's doing, how he's assessing them. So he's getting all kinds of data. This is one way how they can keep a vigilance of what the employer is doing, sorry. So obviously the performance can be assessed in that manner as well, okay. There are lots of ways, obviously. This is one way I'm talking about right now because this is something that I have experienced myself, okay. Okay, sir, yeah. Thank you, sir. Thank you, sir. Hello, sir. Hello. Can we unmute you? Yes, sir. Okay. Yes, as I can hear you. Okay, sir. Thank you, sir, George, for... I'm from the Department of Commerce, that's the goal is. I'm taking care of these departments and thank you for accepting our invitations for these webinars. And it was a wonderful session. We learned a different perspective from these sessions. And my question to you is that, yes, you have rightly mentioned that we are facing problems to organize our students in a virtual course. So, and I think it will go long because this pandemic, we don't know when it will get worse, right now. Yes, yes, yes. So my question to you is, do you have any suggestion to improvise this? We will improvise this. Because sooner or later, we have to find solutions for this. Because at least one year, six months, one year, we will be interested in that. Okay, are you talking about the education sector? If I'm not wrong. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Well, there are certain things that needs to be changed. Like in India, we have seen that what we do is that when we are assessing a student, we usually go for the descriptive method. Am I right? So that needs to be changed because there are a lot of online platforms that can be used for assessing the student as well by not using the descriptive method alone. I'm not saying descriptive method should not be used at all. We can use the other methods as well. So there are a lot of online platforms, like you can use the Kahoot app. There is an app called the Kahoot which you can use to take some tests with the students, assessing them using this app. So obviously you have to use some multiple choice questions there. So this is another way which you can resort to for the time being. Rest, what we see is that many countries are using such kind of things obviously for assessing their students. But in India, this has been a little bit on the downgrade side, I would say. But if you're talking about only the education sector, this is not viable for all the educational sector or the different classes, for example. Like there are a lot of institutions that are located in the backward area or in the rural region where you have enough of internet connectivity where they belong to some government institutions. So basically they will be hampered, I'm saying. What I'm saying is that this is limited to only people who are having access to smart phone, laptops, internet connectivity, only for them. Rest, everybody is going to get hampered. That is why I said the education sector is the worst hit because of this pandemic now. Okay, so one more thing, like we are from commerce and management as you know. And we have to take some like practical classes. And yes, some use the advantage of you too and all. So what are the other way we can make it for practical classes? Like financial. For practical classes, yeah. Yes, for practical classes, you see what we can do is at one point of time that teachers can at least visit their institutions. Okay, if not the students because we'll have a very social gathering kind of a thing if it's with the students. And there are a lot of institutes in the world which have opened up to pandemic. You see, there are some schools in France as I had gone through a news item around 70 kids have been fallen sick after the schools were reopened. So anyways, whatever be it, what you can do is that like you're talking about practical classes. I understand even our institute is suffering when it comes to like statistics and other such kind of classes or practical sums of accountancy. It's quite difficult on the online platform. Now what you can do is that we can go on, the teachers can move on to the institute. Okay, next, they can have an online conference over there using the chalk and board technique there. You can do your some than your statistics whatever be it on the chalk and board. The students can see that using the online conference and they can learn it obviously there. That is one method that can be adopted for the time being that is what I see. Rest though, I don't see that there is any other solution for the time being. Even if you look at this field study data I've done it has been restricted because of this pandemic. Otherwise I could have gathered more data. I could have gone for some other sectors as well but I could only connect with the education sector because I have an access with this education sector with different academicians from different parts of the country that is why I could reach them. But apart from that, it's quite difficult you see. We have to restrict to certain extent. Okay, sir, noted, thank you so much. As we are running out of time, any other participants if you have some question, you can please unmute your mic and you can answer the question. Well, I am trying to send you this one file but I don't know what's pending over here. So I think one question is there in chat box. Okay. File, can I just read out the question? In the meantime, I'll just- Okay, it's a question from Zakir Alam. He says that, thank you, sir, for the productive session. My question is, what will you suggest to improve our productivity with all these limitations that we are facing these days? I repeat, what will you suggest to improve our productivity with all these limitations that we are facing these days? When we try to do online teaching, I find students don't find industry to online interaction even if they are having good access to internet. Okay. So this is an issue obviously. This is an issue with the students because nobody is habituated to this online kind of a thing because as I told you, it's all about your adaptation and adoption. Okay. The first stage is that we need to adopt this. Okay. Sorry, we need to adopt this technique of online teaching. Next is to adopt. It's like work and like say 10 to 13 using this only physical classroom kind of a setup. All of a sudden if you're going into the online technique, that's a difficult thing. That's a difficult thing for everyone. I remember in the year 1994 when your computers were replaced with your, what do you call it? Physical work in the banks. Many of the employees, they retired. They went into voluntary retirement. The thing is that they worked with the physical method for almost 20 years. All of a sudden it has been replaced with your computers, right? They could not adopt themselves. So they either retired or they left it. I mean, this is the problem you see. This is what happened actually. So you need to motivate your student. That is what I would say. You need to motivate your student. You need to give them some interesting task. Okay. Something that will interest them to use the device more and more. Okay. So that's what you can do. The rest I don't see much of a thing to do at the moment. Motivation is the word I would say. Sir, even I would like to ask you one more question. Sir, what about the evaluation system? Because of this online teaching and all examinations, I mean, it's not going to take place as of now. So how you, such as the evaluation system, can take place in the future running? If the same online teaching continues, then how can the evaluation system be done so that it will be helpful? I told you already. We can move towards this multiple choice question setup. Many institutions use that. Many institutions use that for this online examination purpose. So we can go for that as well. You can sit at your home. There are, as I told you, there is this app called Kahoot. Okay. You can use that. You can use that for your real-time thesis test, you see. So that is one thing you can do. With regard to descriptive type thing, even when you can use the descriptor method, what is the problem? There are many organizations that uses this open book examination method. Even in our country, when it comes to many high-level examinations, departmental examinations, they use this open book method. Let them use this open book method. Let them use it on their laptops or let them have a handwritten thing and then upload it to the Google Classroom, say, for example. That can be done. Because you see, surviving is more important at the moment, right? We need to adapt. We need to adapt to certain things, but the thing is that we need to survive this pandemic as well. So for the moment, we can change our strategies as well. Some strategies needs to be changed, obviously. That is what I'm saying. Thank you, sir. I think we don't have any more questions from the session. Okay. So, sir, with this, I think we will come to the end of the session. I would really like to thank you. One second. Sir, if you can please share the file. If I can please share the file, I think we can share the file. I'm trying to do, but it was not really shared. I'm trying. Just a minute. How do I want to see my window now? No, sir. No. No, no, sir. Just a minute. I'm sending it to your mail, okay? Okay. You check your mail. It is there with you now, I guess. No questions. Yeah. I think I got it, sir. Just open it up and present it. I think you can see, sir. Yes, as I can see. So, you see here, can you just zoom it a little bit? Because I don't think so, I also have to see it for a minute. Yeah, yeah. I'm doing that, sir. Can you hear me, sir? I can hear you, but I cannot see. Yeah, I see. Is this visible now? This is, I think everyone can see now. You see, this is a part of the study that I've done with the respondents. So you can see, what are the positive effects and the negative effects of work from home? That is what they stated in one sentence, okay? So you see on one side, a person has said that it encourages his ICT knowledge. Fine, but at the other hand, he said that there are a lot of fitness losses that he's facing. Second, you can see I can dedicate much time to my professional development. And on the other hand, he said that lack of proper motivation. So this is the situation with regard to work from home according to them. Pile, please scroll down a little bit. I have some very funny comments over here as well, what they have said, regard to. You can read it yourself, even. Because everyone is, I think, able to see this if I'm not wrong. Isn't it Pile? I'll just scroll it. Can you hear me, sir? Am I on the phone? I can hear you, I can hear you. Can you see, sir? Yes, yes, yes. Can you see? Yes, yes. So one of them have commented. Yeah, one of them have commented. E-content development, and then they have said that isolation without work. Then destination in time, lack of instant feedback from students. So you see these are the things. Then cannot be as equal as from teaching, then the other side is health issues. That is a negative comment as well. Practical experience which comes from lab and sharing practical experience to students. So obviously everyone is facing that kind of problem. Exactly. To attend webinars? Yes, we are attending webinars over here, but unfortunately, somehow we are enhancing our knowledge by attending the webinars of things. But what about the students? What is being done about the students? This is the problem you see. The students are being deprived by some way or the other. This is a very, very kind of a negative thing that has happened in the last few months. Okay, some comments you see, no response from students even after a read-back. Even after a repeated appeal from students. And repeatedly asking that whether they have understood. The material. Then don't have to travel and too much use of cell phones. Obviously that is also happening in our mind obviously. We are using too much of cell phones. We are getting affected with the radiation. There are some more comments. Please move down a little bit, Pail. Need to be busy in cooking and household works, you see. Someone has commented that as well. Through Zoom app, we can work as well as we can have food. So likewise, there are a few positive aspects similar to that. And also not going to workplace is helping us get more productive time for other work too. Or else at work pace, it becomes difficult to devote the regular schedule that is lying aim to work in the class. The need for going out to the work and help us learning and experiencing other things also. You see that one, it is not possible to connect with all the students as some of them are not having smart phones and internet connectivity. This is also a thing that has happened. Next, please move down a little bit. Consuming process. Yeah, that is also there. Little bit down please. Okay, you read this comment. Yes, this one. At least wait, what happened? Where did you go now? This, this, this, wait, wait, wait. At least to some extent, students are taken off. A new experience of teaching learning process. Even some students residing at remote location had to climb high trees and sit on the branches to send this seminar presentation. This is amazing. Depressed due to long way, long away from workplace. So, anyways, these are the comments that we had. There are a lot of comments, 74 negative and 74 positive. I have not noted down all of this over here because it is a time consuming process otherwise. Okay, so anyways, I would like to just conclude over here. So thank you, Payal, for moderating this session and thank you everyone for being so cooperative in this entire session. So, Payal, it's up to you now. Yeah, thank you so much, sir, for despairing your time, for giving a valuable time and sharing your knowledge in this topic, Work from Home Culture. I hope our participants have learned a lot from this. And once again, I would like to thank you on behalf of the Department of Commerce for the School of College and also from the department from our doc-talk series from on behalf of our college for attending the, for being a guest speaker, inviting our invitation and accepting our invitation and becoming a part of the session. Thank you so much, sir. Thank you, Payal, and I thank Tetsuo College as well for giving me this opportunity for speaking in this particular topic on this day. Thank you very much. Thank you, sir. Okay, bye, everyone. Bye, sir. Bye, sir. Bye, sir.