NEW DELHI: Jason Misquitta, 30, has never met the team he works with in real life; yet, he says, in five weeks of working from home for a new company he’s bonded with colleagues better than any team he’s spent years with.
Misquitta joined short video platform Firework the day the nationwide lockdown was announced on March 24. He had to adapt quickly to the new “office"—a laptop and video calls in a corner of his house—and has met his colleagues and boss only on Zoom, Slack and WhatsApp.
But, he says, communication is easier from the home office, and he asks his boss the smallest of queries over a text or an impromptu call. “I would have thought twice about going to his cabin and doing that if we were in the office." The covid-19 outbreak