Taking care of household chores along with office work was a compulsory hobby Sriram Mahadevan adopted.
Sriram Mahadevan, MD of Joyville Shapoorji Housing, begins his day with Pranayama and some cardio daily. The realty boss has been going for morning walk for the last 22 years.
‘Love biking tours’ “I would surely like to explore the countryside both within India and abroad once things come back to normalcy. Places of particular interest would be Eastern European cities like Prague and Budapest. Within India, I’d like to visit Himachal Pradesh. I usually love to go on biking tours which help me to understand the importance of a place and also explore non touristy kind of places. I am an outdoor person and thus dying to go out.”
Self-indulgence “I would love to go back to the clubs of Kolkata with my family which used to be a once-in-a-quarter kind of affair. I am badly missing it. I also look forward to a good spa treatment, especially for my knees and lower back.”
Giving shopping a miss “I am neither a tech nerd nor am I completely tech illiterate. I am somewhere in between. I use apps a lot to transact and love to listen to music. I already have a pair of Bose earphones, which is my best companion always. As for shopping in general, I buy things based on my need, and as of now, don’t look forward to any serious shopping.”
New normal, wet floor “Taking care of household chores along with office work was the compulsory hobby I adopted. After almost 6 months of the same, I realised that possibly I should get a robotic mopping machine. I am seriously contemplating getting myself one.”
Fitness routine I ensure that I do Pranayama and some cardio on a regular basis, which helps me to get a good healthy head start for the day. I have been going for morning walk as well for the last 22 years. I love cycling too and do that intermittently to get me going.”
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Office Interiors To Change Post-Lockdown: Here's What The Future Will Look Like
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“For office culture to revive and survive, office spaces are looking at a pretty drastic alteration of layouts and design,” says Pankaj Poddar, the co-founder of Hipcouch, a Mumbai based Interior Design Company. He says the new normal will also see some reversal.
“We will see the reversing of very hot trends of open offices and shared desks.” While we wait for the official decrees, here’s what the rough framework is looking like so far according to Poddar.
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Since offices will not be at maximum capacity, there is scope to ensure enough physical distance between two desks by simply skipping one in the middle. At the very least, or in addition, fitting a screen around each desk is also a good way to achieve this. Hot desking is now a no-go.
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The way 2020 is going, it’s hard to predict anything this year with any accuracy, so we have no idea what monsoon will bring, but opening as many windows as you possibly can will increase ventilation and we suspect that a lot of offices will consider the option. Too hot? Your office may need to get a humidifier system in place to create a tougher climate for viruses.
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Meetings should be conducted in open spaces as far as possible instead of the traditional closed conference room setting. And maybe the joke about how “this meeting could have been an email” can stop being funny and actually be something to think about.
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Equip the entrance/lobby, dining areas, bathrooms and other public spaces within the office with sanitiser dispensers, disposable gloves and a no-touch thermometer. Add a screen to protect the reception staff and insist on extra cleaning of all spaces, especially bathrooms.
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This one is a more elaborate solution than the others, but according to reports, offices in the UK are looking at replacing communal toilets with individual pods and introducing touchless doors, taps and soap dispensers.
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A strict limit on how many people can crowd into a lift at one time may save you some of that awkward elevator silence, but it also means a longer wait every time you want to move from one floor to another. A good time to reassess your relationship with the staircase (your step counter will be a thing of pride at the end of each day!)
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Yes, this may come to an end as well. Be prepared to carry your own water bottles, coffee mugs and cutlery to the office. A common pool of all these items is just a bad idea.
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Whether this is good news to you or exactly the opposite, travelling for business will see a drastic drop, replaced instead by Zoom calls. Travelling anywhere is probably unwise for at least the next several months anyway, even as domestic flights are slowly opening up. Also, obviously don’t count on any outstation off-sites anytime soon.
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