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Redefining Jobs

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VoicenData Bureau
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Technologies have made a major impact on our

lives and also on our working style. We would have never thought

of making our home the office, but today it is a reality. Even

concepts like Small Office, Home Office, Remote Office (SOHORO)

are fast catching up with the advent of cellphones, laptops, and

Internet. One can carry the remote office by just carrying laptop

and cellphone and be in touch with their colleagues whenever they

feel to communicate in spite of holidaying in some remote place.

Efficiency of individuals has increased multi-fold giving one the

flexibility to work for other things simultaneously with the

effective use of the available resources.

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Even as professionals explore new products and

new areas, where challenges are galore, the existing job does not

satisfy their appetite after a period of time, in terms of

learning and career growth. The only answer then is job hopping,

which is more rampant in the telecom and IT industries.

The frequency of job hopping has increased with

the growth in telecom and PC densities and has become a subject

of discussion for HRD managers in these fields. It can be mainly

attributed to a gap in demand and supply, internally as well as

externally. Lack of experts in IT & communications field

compels the industry to pay a fat salary which lures individuals

to switch organizations.

In future, it seems job hopping would be more

frequent and more people will leave the organization rather than

joining it at a specific point of time. Should HRD managers look

at job hopping as a problem or take corrective measures in

overcoming it by developing a lean and good organization.

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Corporates in the West have tried to reduce job

hopping to an extent by bringing the concept of flexible timing.

To restrict this, it seems the definition of job would be

redefined. People would be called job workers and not employees

for an organization. Professionals would be working under a

contractual agreement whereby after the completion of the work,

their work would be evaluated on the basis of laid-down

parameters and would be paid according to the contract agreement.

With people working as job workers, and not as

employees, they can work for multiple organizations. People can

choose their own timings to work for without bothering about the

official timings. Time wasted by individuals in commuting from

office to home and back can be effectively utilized in doing

something constructive. As administrative work is not to be

performed by job workers, the effective time to work can be

stretched depending upon an individual’s capacity.

In order to clinch the deal, individuals have

to differentiate themselves from others by putting a lot of

creativity and innovativeness. In order to price their services,

they have to take into account the prevailing market dynamics and

price their product accordingly.

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With an increase in real estate prices every

year organizations cannot afford to give office space to each of

its employees. A small office can cater to their need as a lot of

administrative costs can be cut down to a sizeable extent.

But money has to be invested in developing the

best communications and networking infrastructure so that people

at remote distances can be connected, and there is free flow of

voice and data without worrying about the bandwidth.

As consultants have to be updated about the

latest developments, they have to attend a lot of training

programmes in different fields leading to opening up of training

institutes specializing in different sectors.

Realizing this scenario will take time but it

is surely going to happen and corporates should be prepared for

it. But before this can happen the state’s telecom

infrastructure should have enough bandwidth to support all the

subscribers in transmitting high quality voice and data. PC

penetration level should increase by leaps and bounds. Even the

Internet bandwidth should be able to support all the subscribers

as job workers would be frequently surfing it for answering their

own queries as well as working enhancing their knowledge base.

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