MAKING WORK FROM HOME WORK

While on a video call with Kerry Singleton, the Singapore-based cybersecurity sales director for Asean at Cisco to discuss his work from home life, his three-year old son, holding a small toy, video-bombed the interview to say ‘Hello’ to the writer. The mother pulled him out as he kept saying, “Do I need to go?” Singleton says, “He likes seeing and talking to people. This happens at least once a day, so you are lucky. Sometimes it’s difficult to manage him alongside work.”

That’s become the new normal for millions of employees across the world as companies mandate work from home due to the prevailing lockdown to check the spread of coronavirus. While many new-age and technology firms have always offered flexi-work options, the difference now is the sheer number of employees working from home for such a long period considering