Lockdown: Government gets started to make WFH process smooth

Efficient software and hardware solutions for ‘work from home’ and a set of parameters defining the practice. The Centre, recognising that WFH is here to stay, has started industrywide consultations to make the process easier, more rigorously defined and more secure.

A senior government official who spoke off the record told ET: “There are two aspects to WFH. One, how to use technology to allow seamless experience… essentially an array of products… software suits and hardware that don’t compromise data security, and second, defining basic parameters of working from home.”

The telecom ministry and ministry of electronics and information technology (MeitY) are working on the first aspect, the department of personnel and training could work on the second.