Gitesh Sinha

  The world after a long struggle with the pandemic is gradually coming out of the shell of self-imposed 2020 COVID Lockdown exclusion. After much deliberation and persuasion we finally reach a point of tentative social pragmatism to resume normal life with grudging acceptance of long term adjustments in the post pandemic world. But as people head back and reach out to their offices, shops, schools and factories in the usual scheme of things, they are discovering it might never be the same again. Governments, societies and businesses are limping back to existence, realizing that the long COVID lockdown has disrupted their operational capacity and it may take some time to regain normal levels of efficiency & productivity. Not only government institutions are staring at huge fiscal gaps because of large scale state expenditure on controlling COVID spread, but also corporate whose revenue verticals have been impacted by the shutdown of the commercial activities. As we start sear...

By some reports a whopping 200 million people had lost jobs by June 2021 in the silent job crash as much of the world stayed shut down and locked out in panedimic induced solitary confinement. The only visible cues , if one ever noticed was a steadily  growing  “ open to work ” tagged people popping up incessantly on professional networking apps . I too dismissed  these desperate online shout-outs as echo from some faraway universe . N evertheless it did made me feel a bit guilty of getting along too cosy on  extended 'work from home' life, as millions faced layoffs and jobless existence in outside world battling first millinal economic meltdown due to global pandemic. The news of mass terminations being handed out over the zoom video calls by so called responsible corporates,during such critical times further muddled  this dull picture. The  grinding office routine, with all the trappings of precarious  work life balance that I recented once now seeme...