Due to the pandemic mayhem, there is truly a slight difference between remote work and onsite work. Having delivered programs and projects across geographies during the pandemic across five cities in the Gulf and SE Asia, knowledge work has moved to a new level. I plan to write on remote consulting and research delivery as a mode of work. We must, however, remember that outsourcing of work is not new and has been around for three decades.

Belonging is a feeling

Tugs at the heart

The sense of normalcy

Often reduced to a feeling

As life has other plans.

Disrupt yourself. The market is always looking to deskill you, convert you into a ‘task’ and offshore or automate you. Gigfication is not an informal sector phenomenon, each job has an analogue across the screen elsewhere. What is your usp is the key to retention? Reflect?

The channa masala for lunch at NUS Guild House for an academic workshop was legit so much that my heart went, channa mereya

we live in an era of surveillance capitalism; we are data points at best

the alternative becomes the mainstream if there are avenues for revenue generation and cultural change

There are two ways to do things of value, to do something in a space we love, do it deeply and find a founder-product-market fit.

ESG needs to establish a clear relationship in terms of a graded risk profile from a materiality standpoint and a contextual specificity is needed in terms of dollars and cents, till then green washing will continue.

There is a saying in Hindi ‘Jis Thali Main Kahte Hain Us Thali Main Naheen Thooktein Hain’ which is as ‘One does not spit in the plate which one eats in’.

i learnt the lesson incredibly early in life as a third-generation immigrant in Mumbai and then (second generation) in the Gulf. Be grateful as an immigrant, as a temporary guest worker one is a ‘guest’.

I am grateful for the work and study opportunities which Oman, UAE, and Singapore over the past three decades has provided me and my parents as an Indian Citizen.

Keep your radical politics at home. We support our families from work that we do not find at home.

#Majulah

#gratitude

Agneeveer is the gigfication of the public sector, where labour pool is a plenty and opportunities are few. The phenomenon of temporary contract work is not new in the public sector as teachers are often contract based. The next step would be to hire tech firms to create a platform for matching agneeveers to security guard work.

The corporates are happy as they have another precarious pool to hire. I see the PMC recruitment booming as agneeveers head overseas to fight in conflict zones for a fee.