The Work From Home revolution

Will it trigger a social and management revolution as well?

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Work from home | East India Company

Ajit Balakrishnan 

Ajit Balakrishnan

Ajit, why are you so hands-on? Why don’t you learn to delegate work to others and just do the supervision?” is friendly advice that I have been receiving from colleagues from my first day at work till even yesterday.

I guess I spent a lot of my time at work hammering away at the Facit calculating machine, when I first started working in the early 1970s and after graduating from IIM Calcutta, and since then with my head buried in personal computers. When faced with such pieces of advice I have consistently returned a smile and said, “I can’t help it, I am descended ...

First Published: Sun, August 16 2020. 22:29 IST