Making work-from-home permanent is the new normal: Zerodha CEO Nithin Kamath
The founder and CEO of stockbroking platform Zerodha, Nithin Kamath, in his recent tweets expressed his view on the work culture witnessing a major transition because of covid-19 lockdown and the work-from-home protocol. He said it’s time to move from India’s large cities and permanently work from home, as a way to create livelihoods and […]
The founder and CEO of stockbroking platform Zerodha, Nithin Kamath, in his recent tweets expressed his view on the work culture witnessing a major transition because of covid-19 lockdown and the work-from-home protocol. He said it’s time to move from India’s large cities and permanently work from home, as a way to create livelihoods and reduce carbon footprint. In a series of tweet he mentioned that migrating from larger cities to small towns and villages is a solution to some of India’s most pressing problems. As per the latest survey conducted by the team at Zerodha, he said more than half of its employee are reacy to move out of the metro cities and shift to their towns to permanently work from home.
The silver lining in these trying times is that people are more open than ever to move out of large cities. This (image) is from the latest survey we just had with our team at @zerodhaonline . 3/5 pic.twitter.com/LxZsg6bCiL
— Nithin Kamath (@Nithin0dha) April 24, 2021
While we all work together to figure out what we can do to help in the current situation, I think the only long-term fix is for as many of us to move away from large cities. This is the answer to many of India’s problems. And now is probably the right time to work towards it. 1/5
— Nithin Kamath (@Nithin0dha) April 24, 2021
The company also stated that keeping up with recent work dynamics in India Inc, they have alreadty started hiring for permanent WFH positions, beginning with the customer support team and soon expanding to other departments too. As this will be the new normal he also requested other companies to do the same.
We are in the process of transitioning as many people as possible to permanent WFH so that we can enable this move out of large cities for those who haven’t, & make it permanent for those who have already moved. 4/5
— Nithin Kamath (@Nithin0dha) April 24, 2021
We are also now hiring for permanent WFH positions for our Customer support team & soon for other teams as well. I’m hoping that other businesses who can, will also move whatever jobs possible to permanent WFH and nudge their teams to make this transition. 5/5
— Nithin Kamath (@Nithin0dha) April 24, 2021