And , it certainly does not – even once, beg permission
to enter your office!
Context :
Working
Group to Push Remote Working in IT,ITes
/ 29 Aug 2020
Extract :
Ø This
working group is under the larger inter-ministerial group set up by the
Ministry of Electronics and IT , which has been coordinating with other
ministries including telecom, labour and commece to bring in largescale reforms to boost the work from home model
Ø The
industry has sought for streamlining laws that will enable it to not just work from home but also from anywhere
Ø In
the context of work from
anywhere, the industry requires technologically agnostic solutions for
connectivity. The current rules require VPN connectivity , but the industry
should be allowed to use any technology as long as it is secure
Ø ….
Agents should be allowed to connect with the local service of the OSP without first getting into the physical OSP cloud
connectivity centre
Ø There
are other issues such as mandatory location reporting ,
which may have to be revised if the employees are given the choice to work from anywhere
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From a meagre export of, under $ 100 million in mid ‘80s
, how did our IT / ITes industry manage to reach export of $ 190 BILLION , last
year ?
Because someone in the Central Government took the
following bold / out-of-box
decisions to UNSHACKLE
the industry :
Ø Anyone
can import
computers
I remember that, in 1982,
when the company that I worked for, wanted to import a main-frame computer, we
had to ask DOE ( Department of Electronics ) to issue an advertisement ( tender
) at our cost . DOE, even decided what configuration was best for us, by
changing the specifications we wrote !
We could not advertise on
our own ! Offers were received /
evaluated by DOE and negotiations with the suppliers were also conducted by DOE
( we were allowed to join the negotiating team but with little say in the
matter ! ).
Ø Any
private company / individual can carry-out “ After Sales Service “ of imported computers
At one time, CMC (
Computer Maintenance Corporation of India / a Government of India undertaking )
had the ABSOLUTE MONOPOLY of maintaining all the computers imported from abroad (even if owned
by private-sector companies). No private party can do this !
Ø Any
IT company can export
SOFTWARE directly ( bypassing any Govt agency ) , using leased lines from
telephone companies
A few decades ago, when
Indian companies started getting foreign orders for development of software,
they were COMPELLED to route their exports, only through VSNL ( I believe one had to handover to
VSNL, a CD / HARD DISK , loaded with the code ! ). Reason ? Some govt babu
believed that IT companies were under-invoicing !
=========================================================
Today, VPs of Indian IT companies constituting the “
Working Group “- would laugh at the above-mentioned “ Reforms “ !
But, it is possible that the IT Companies around the
World, are right now laughing at the plight of Indian IT / ITes companies, who
must BEG the government
to UNSHACKLE them
from ALL rules / regulations, which come in the way of :
Ø Working
from Home
Ø Working
from Anywhere
Dear Shri RaviShankar Prasadji,
This is no time ( considering the urgency to revive the
Economy ) to ask IT
/ ITes industry :
“ Which rules / regulations, do you want ditched / deleted
? “
This is the time to tell the industry :
“You have to export $ 500
billion by 2024
Now write
down your own policy and go ahead “
Policies such as the following RPG Remote Working
Policy , where Chairman Harsh Goenka says :
“Our new work from home
policy shatters the notion of traditional workspace and productivity and
has turned it on its head.
Employees who are not
operating machines in our manufacturing businesses or do not have a client
obligation in our technology services business, can work from ANYEHERE even
after the pandemic is behind us.
It aligns with our vision
tenet of touching lives and brand promise of happiness “
( source : All
RPG sales staff can now WFH permanently
/ 31 Aug 2020 )
It is time to ditch the “ Incremental Reforms “
It is time to take bold / out-of-box decisions, listed
in my following 16 earlier emails :
If
Mohamed cannot go to Mountain [ 26 July 2015 ]
" BACK FACTORY " OF THE WORLD ? [ 09 Sept 2015 ]
A NEW ECONOMIC ORDER ? aka " Start Up Act - 2015 " [ 12 Sept 2015 ]
How
About Virtual Call Centers ? [ 04 Oct 2016 ]
Will Holograms beat H1B Visa Ban ? [ 31 Jan 2017 ]
Wormholes Across the World ? [ 03 Mar 2017 ]
Brain Inc 2.0
[
21 Aug 2017 ]
Ready
to be Ridiculed [
23 Aug 2017 ]
India
BPO Promotion Scheme [ 11 Apr 2018 ]
Leveraging
our Engineering Talent [ 13 Dec 2018 ]
Caused
by CoronaVirus ? [
04 Mar 2020 ]
Opportunity
in Adversity ? [ 13 Mar 2020 ]
Permission
to create jobs ? ………………………………………………[ 14 Mar 2020 ]
Congratulations,
Shri Subramaniam [ 25 Apr 2020 ]
Work
from Home ( WFH ) : Perseverance Pays [ 27 Apr 2020 ]
From
Distant to Digital : New Work Culture [ 29 Apr 2020 ]
=========================================================
With regards,
Hemen Parekh / hcp@RecruitGuru.com /
31 Aug 2020
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