While I purchased a new book of Yuval Noah Harari, 'Sapiens: A brief history of humankind', it makes me write this new article while I thought about this particular topic while eating alone in McDonald's and observing the human behavior while what I thought that new normal after the pandemic would be different but it is the same, let me explain it.
While we used to move in tribes with people for whom we cared, loved and with those whom we trusted and are what we are now doing things differently but looking for love, caring about others and be with all those in whom we have belief and trust.
The pandemic has given me chance to look at things differently and the observations made me understood that no matter what happens, we will be going back to our roots, the things we have been doing but just differently.
Current Scenario
Most of the small businesses especially IT companies and other startups who thinks it is cool to work from home for a life time, it is clearly impossible to do so. Even though the productivity among-st most of the employees have increased it is simply because of certain amount of change I am looking at them that refreshes them or energizes the companies employees to work while remaining with families and connecting with them again.
As I told earlier that many don't want to have office spaces and create a WFH environment, I don't think personally that office spaces are going anywhere, instead if such things happens in future, I would not be amazed to see more cases of depression and exhaustion among-st the employees as they wont be having anyone to build meaningful relationships, engage with each other, share all the happy and sad moments. What we need is to touch, feel and see all those things again and live all the moments.
Companies such as TCS and Twitter have allowed their employees to work from home but as an option wherein the employees have a choice whether they wish to go to their offices or work from home for certain days, but certainly not abandoning the office.
Profound thoughts
I believe that the even though we start adopting new ways to live but doesn't mean we will abandon the old stuff. We might include technology to play a major role in our life but still every weekend we would be reconnecting with our friends, families, connecting with our colleagues, attending functions, vacationing, travelling by air/car the same way as we used to do.
I think that we would be doing business in a different manner, by adopting new ways and means but not totally abandoning everything we used to do because ultimately we are social animals.
