This monsoon, stay home, work hard

You don't have to live in Gurgaon and work in Delhi to agree with this. Wherever you are - unless in some foreign tax haven climes that thinks 'Monsoon' is a perfume brand - avoid soggy shoes, flooded streets and the faint smell of damp regret. Don't be scared of being outed as one of those WFHers. Truth is, working from home during monsoons isn't laziness, it's smart strategy. While your colleagues become aquatic mammals navigating office corridors with flippers and umbrellas - not to mention the commute that makes Joseph Conrad's 'The horror! The horror!' seem tame - you, dear home-bound visionary, are sipping ginger tea and actually getting things done. They battle traffic-induced existential crises; you battle finding your slippers from under one of the sofas.

Ironically, corporations insist on 'team spirit', as they herd drenched employees into offices that smell faintly of mildew and broken dreams. Meanwhile, remote workers crush deadlines while wearing the same T-shirt for three days - because rain exempts laundry. Studies (read: common sense) show that nobody has ever had a great idea while clutching their laptop in a cab stuck in traffic. But the stress apart, great ideas? They bloom where the room is dry. Zooms can confirm that. So, this monsoon, be dry. Your boss might call it antisocial. We call it meteorologically enlightened.