Letters: Flexibility has limitations

Apropos Indrajit Gupta's column "Why it pays to be a flexible employer" (Strategic Intent, June 23), the first industrial revolution took work from home to the hearth and created the world of factories. Now, the new industrial revolution is taking work back from the workplace to home. But this flexibility in the choice of workplace has its limitations too. Working from home fosters inconvenience for other members of the family when they are required to keep quiet while a long discussion takes place on phone with the boss or not play music because it disturbs the concentration and so on. Work-generated stress is immediately transferred to the family. The employee is now too much at home to feel worksick and go back to colleagues to talk about organisational politics and things mundane.

While flexible work hours are a boon and flexibility in doing one's job a bonus, a flexible location is like a curate's egg.

Y G Chouksey Pune

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