12,000+ Work-from-Home Internships for the Indian Students - A COVID-19 initiative by Internshala

Launch of Chalo India, Let’s Work From Home — A COVID-19 initiative by Internshala

12,000+ work-from-home internships for the Indian students of all educational backgrounds.

25th May 2020, New Delhi: The recruitment and training platform, Internshala has launched its COVID-19 initiative, ‘Chalo India, Let’s Work From Home’. The initiative invites students from all educational backgrounds to apply to more than 12,000 work-from-home internship opportunities. The interested internship seekers can apply to the opportunities by 5th June 2021.

The initiative offers internships in varying profiles including marketing, web development, business development, human resources, content writing, digital marketing, app development, and many more. Each internship under this initiative comes with an assured stipend. The highest stipend being offered is ₹ 45,000 per month.

On the launch of the initiative, the founder and CEO of Internshala, Sarvesh Agrawal said, 

With the second wave of COVID-19, the summer internship plans of Indian students were affected yet again. To help these students make the most of their summers, we have launched the ‘Chalo India, Let’s Work From Home’ initiative. Through these internships, the students will be able to have a learning packed summer internship experience from the safety and comfort of their homes.

For more information or to apply to the internships, visit: http://bit.ly/wfh_int

TO THE NEW announces permanent work-from-home option for all its employees

New Delhi, 31st March 2021: TO THE NEW Pvt. Ltd., a leading digital technology company, has announced a permanent work-from-home option for its employees, internally referred to as the 'Newers'. The decision came as a result of the company's successful work-from-home run during the lockdown, resulting in its continued business operations during FY 2020-21.

At the onset of the pandemic, TO THE NEW managed a smooth transition to remote working for 100% of its workforce, without any impact on business continuity and client deliveries. Being a Cloud-native firm, the company quickly overcame all infrastructure and process-related barriers to remote working, ensuring maximum productivity, along with ensuring holistic well-being for its employees.

The move will help its people stay close to their families and in their home-towns. Additionally, it shall also help the organization widen its candidate pool and tap into the best talent from all across the country.

Elaborating on the announcement, the company's Co-founder & CHRO, Satya Sharma, said, "At TO THE NEW, ensuring the well-being and best interests of Newers has always been our priority. In line with this, we made a decision to give our people the option to work from anywhere to enable them to stay in their hometowns, closer to their loved ones. We have already onboarded over 40 people from cities other than Delhi NCR to permanently work-from-home in the last few months, while also extending the option to our existing team members."

Commenting on the development, Deepak Mittal, Co-founder & CEO, TO THE NEW said, "The pandemic has certainly changed the way organizations across the globe operate. We are happy to report that even amidst these times, TO THE NEW experienced seamless client deliveries across all our services. The onus of this remarkable success goes to our people, who helped us keep the work momentum going, irrespective of their location."

On a strong growth trajectory, the company is further planning to add over 500 people to their team in FY 2021-22. TO THE NEW managed to grow at over 60% in FY20-21, reaching an overall revenue of 423 Cr.

About TO THE NEW

TO THE NEW is a technology services company that designs, builds & runs digital products and platforms for enterprises, SaaS, and consumer tech companies.

TO THE NEW is recognised by global analyst firms like Gartner, Everest, ISG and Zinnov for our capabilities in digital engineering, Cloud, Data & Analytics. The company also leverages its deep partnership with all the leading hyperscalers like AWS (Premier Partner), Azure and GCP to provide end-to-end Cloud professional and managed services to our customers.

Founded in 2008, TO THE NEW is one of the fastest-growing companies with a growth rate of over 60% since 2017. Our passionate team of 2000+ "Newers" is spread across our delivery centres in Delhi, Dubai and NYC. TO THE NEW is a consistent winner of the prestigious "Great Place to Work" award since 2015 and ranked #47 in the top 100 companies in India to work for in 2019.

87% Indian Businesses Considering Long-Term Work from Home Plans

According to a report by BCG-Zoom, 87 per cent Indian business are mulling over making work from home a permanent option. The report also concluded that there has been close to three times increase in employees working remote at businesses surveyed.

To evaluate the economic impact of remote work and video communications solutions during the pandemic, Zoom commissioned the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) to conduct a survey and economic analysis, focusing on what industries were able to pivot their business processes using video conferencing, resulting in business continuity and even growth during a time of significant economic turmoil.

The resulting report, prepared by Zoom based on the survey data and findings made by BCG, spans key industries and six countries around the globe, including India, US, UK, Japan, France and Germany.

The total time spent on video conferencing solutions increased 3-5x at businesses surveyed. BCG’s Covid-19 employee sentiment survey from 2020 showed that 70% of managers surveyed are more open to flexible remote working models than they were before the pandemic.

Businesses surveyed expect over a third of employees to work remotely beyond the pandemic.

As countries around the world grappled with lockdowns, people rapidly adopted remote work and video conferencing solutions. Through the swift and effective implementation of remote work, businesses within these countries were able to save both money and jobs that may have been lost as a result of the pandemic. In the U.S., for example, the ability to work remotely helped save 2.28 million jobs.

To look at how video communication solutions affect the way people work, both now and in the future, the survey aspect of the report asked respondents to estimate what share of employees in their company used video conferencing solutions in 2019, 2020, and expected to in 2022.

Results were grouped by enterprise and small-to-medium-sized businesses (SMB).

Work From Home jobs witness a 3X jump post-Pandemic: Naukri.com

Led by the Covid-19 pandemic, as more companies announce the extension of work-from-home policy, the Indian workforce is witnessing a behavioral shift. The remote working revolution saw many employees enjoy greater flexibility and control on their personal and professional lives including saving on huge commute times. As a result, Work From Home jobs have witnessed a 7x growth in applications in the last few months as compared to pre-COVID times. Hiring for remote jobs too has seen a robust growth and has increased by 3X as compared to pre-COVID levels this year. Even the percentage contribution of WFH jobs has gone up by 4X in 2020 versus 2019 as a result of the global pandemic.

The keyword, ‘Work From Home’ has been one of the top 3 most searched keywords by jobseekers in the last five months on Naukri’s platform.

Commenting on the data trends, Pawan Goyal, Chief Business Officer at Naukri.com said, “We have seen the Work From Home trend grow in the last few years but the growth has accelerated multi-fold due to the global pandemic. While the office is here to stay, greater acceptance of remote working will pave way for a hybrid-working model in the coming future. It’s also interesting to note that traditionally office based or on-ground roles such as Sales/ Business Development and Customer Care Agents are now being offered with WFH options."

Around half of remote job postings are from the BPO/ ITES sector, resulting in robust growth of WFH jobs from the industry. IT-Software, Education/Teaching and Internet/Ecommerce contribute to another quarter of work from home jobs. WFH jobs have also emerged in unlikely sectors such as Publishing, BFSI and Education/Teaching that have conventionally required the physical presence of the employee. However, the most impacted industries like Travel and Staffing continue to decline in hiring even in remote jobs.

The WFH trend was also a recurring topic discussed in webinars organized as part of Naukri’s Step-Up initiative and saw many queries directed to industry experts from jobseekers on remote working jobs, increasing productivity and communicating with teams and managers effectively in these times.

About Naukri.com

Naukri.com, India’s No. 1 job site and the flagship brand of Info Edge introduced the concept of e-recruitment in India. Since its inception in 1997, Naukri.com has seen continuous growth while outperforming its competitors in every sphere. Info Edge was the first internet company to be listed in India. The brand enjoys a timeshare of over 96% across Desktop, Mobile and App as per similar web. Naukri.com is a recruitment platform that provides hiring-related services to corporates/recruiters, placement agencies and job seekers in India and overseas. It offers multiple products like Resume Database Access, listings and Response Management Tools. With more than 5,40,000 jobs live at any point and over 69 million CVs, Naukri.com services over 59,500 unique clients. The company operates 77 offices in 47 cities in India and overseas offices in Dubai, Riyadh, Abu Dhabi and Bahrain.

0.2% IT Workforce are Highly Productive Making them Work from Home Champions - SCIKEY Research

• 0.2% Professionals are Work from Home Champions


• Given the right engagement, every employee can excel at working from a remote location from their team leader.

The SCIKEY MindMatch Report reveals that 99.8% of the workforce are incapable of working from home and only 0.02% are Work from Home Champions and showcase highly productivity atributes. Furthermore, the SCIKEY research indicates that 99.8% of the workforce lack at least one of these qualities. It highlights that 95% job seekers are resistant to learning and exploring, 65% lack in practical communication skills and 71% lack in planning and execution.  

Amid the coronavirus outbreak, all organizations are engaging its employees in remote work places. To drive successful business outcomes, companies need to encourage high productivity for their remote working employees. Employees need to posses crucial traits as a necessity for a productive work from home regime.

Every individual is driven by a different force and identifying an employee's strength and weakness, plays a crucial role in enhancing remote productivity. Basis their personality types, companies can enhance the productivity of their employees.

The study further revealed, 16.97% of the employees are Challenge driven. Such employees should be given challenging tasks and can work seamlessly with minimum intervention. The study identified 17% of employees as Instruction driven and need clear cut direction to deliver a task. While engaging with these employees, especially under the remote working scenario, one should pay close attention to the details of the tasks assigned to them. 

The data reveals that 40.42% of the IT workforce is logic-driven. In order to engage remotely with them, it becomes mandatory to assign them a task that is logic-driven and to answer their queries, no matter how small or how many.They are pro at working alone, so remote working is not a challenge for them as long as they can clarify all their doubts corresponding to the task. They will proactively update on their progress report. 12.7% of the IT workforce comprises of employees who thrive on their social interactions. As a result, work from home is a challenge for them. They do not fear the task but fear the lack of social interaction. In order to engage such a person remotely, a daily virtual communication becomes mandatory and a face to face video conferencing is definitely uplifting. 

Finally the research indicated that around a quarter of the workforce comprises of the individuals who value and respect hierarchy. These individuals will follow orders and do what is told to them even without an instruction manual. In case of absence of the instructions, they weigh the task at hand and come up with a process of their own. Therefore, as long as the task is coming from their superiors, they are capable of carrying it out provided they are given the necessary support. They should be provided with any assistance they seek, especially in the case of a remote engagement. 

These are the findings of the survey on ' Creating work from home champions- Enhancing Productivity in crisis conducted by SCIKEY, a talent lifecycle management venture. The report is based on insights from 10,559 respondents. These mainly include IT professionals from different domains such as Software Developers, IT Infrastructure, Technology Support, Project Managers, Architects, Support Engineers, Business Development, Digital Marketing, UI/UX Engineers, etc. between the age group of 22 to 47 from states of Maharashtra, Gujarat, Karnataka, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Kerala, Haryana and West Bengal. The SCIKEY Research Report has been derived from the SCIKEY MindMatch Algorithm. This algorithm can map a professional's mindset that is based on a set of questions that understand the individual's emotional quotient, ego filters, aspirations and belief levels, habits and the ecosystem disturbances that cause distractions & stress in a professional’s life. This data is further filtered to derive professional behavioural elements of any individual and is termed as "Mindset Map". 

Mr. Shriram Viswanathan, Co-founder, SCIKEY said, "Understanding the mindset of the workforce is extremely crucial especially during these extraordinary times. To enhance the employee productivity, managers and team leaders need to identify the driving force of their employees and engage with them accordingly.

Given the right direction, any individual can be guided to become work from the home champion. The key to this lies with the manager who is accountable for shouldering this task.

ABOUT SCIKEY

SCIKEY is a research-backed innovative venture with an efficient AI driven platform, MindMatch and Automation powered talent solution to deliver transformative results for clients and their Human Capital. 

At SCIKEY, we provide end to end technology & people science enabled solutions to cover the entire talent lifecycle right from Talent Discovery & Attraction to Talent Alignment & Engagement, towards ensuring organisation productivity and longevity; in process creating a happier human capital.

SCIKEY's Global ecosystem owns several IPs in the field of Human Behaviour Analysis & Prediction. It comprises of R&D centres in Europe & India, global R&D Partners, collaborations with global universities and a team of expert researchers & data scientists.

Apps for Work-from-Home, EdTech, Entertainment Push Data Demand in India by 20% in 3 Weeks: DE-CIX

With the country under coronavirus lockdown, applications supporting work-from-home, edtech, video streaming and gaming led to a spike in data consumption by 20 per cent in the last three weeks, according to the internet exchange firm DE-CIX.

The company has seen use of collaborative tools like Zoom, Skype, Webex, Microsoft teams, etc doubled and 120 per cent jump in traffic of video streaming apps like Netflix, Zee5, Amazon Prime, etc, including gaming apps.

"We have seen an averag,e 20 per cent jump in data traffic in India in the last three weeks. Collaborative tools, video streaming app and gaming apps now account for around 80 per cent of the total internet traffic in India," DE-CIX International CEO Ivo Ivanov told PTI.

He said that the surge in data consumption without complaint of work getting affected shows that digital infrastructure is going to be key for managing economies.

"This type of behaviour of people using collaborative tools with some people being first time users shows that it could stay even after the coronavirus problem is solved," Ivanov said.

DE-CIX facilitates brandwidth trade for applications like Hotstar, Netflix, cloud computing companies, data centres, telecom operators, etc through network interconnection services.

"The data surge of 20 per cent has been noticed in the last 2-3 weeks compared to the data consumption pattern in January-February," Ivanov said.

The company has recorded peak data consumption at 2.45 terabit per second on March 18 which means 2.64 crore gigabyte of data usage in a day. During normal days data consumption in India is around 81 GB per second which is around 70 lakh GB in a day.

Ivanov said that there is no congestion on the network of the company, however, telecom operators and internet service providers will need to expand their capacity for delivering service to the end customers.

"All stakeholders should treat digital infrastructure on high priority," he said.

The company is now looking to expand presence of its internet exchanges in India to more 12 cities in the next 2-3 years. PTI PRS

During COVID-19 Crisis, ArchChat Makes it Possible for Architects & Designers to Work from Home

As COVID-19 continues to ravage across continents, businesses across the globe have taken a hit. In India, where real estate was just looking to stabilise, COVID has forced the sector into an extended slump, as construction and architectural projects come to a standstill. As most businesses re-imagine operations, the construction and design community will need to quickly adapt to remote working possibilities and stay relevant as isolation and social distancing become the norm.

[caption id="attachment_144019" align="alignleft" width="257"] Chetan K Singh, ArchChat Founder and a Designer[/caption]

"The design community needs to explore new ways to sustain their business while they work from home as more than a billion people are quarantined to fight the deadly COVID-19 virus," shares Chetan K Singh, ArchChat Founder and a Designer himself. He further adds that "Unlike some businesses, design projects need active communication and interaction amongst internal and external teams."

Archdaily, a global news platform for the design industry observed that among the main challenges that architects report while working from home include reduced communication with the rest of the team and the impossibility of visiting the site or meeting with suppliers and customers. This challenge can be bridged by ArchChat.

The design and construction community currently uses WhatsApp groups and email to collaborate with internal teams and external project stakeholders.



WhatsApp is an excellent social communication platform but can't be used effectively to collaborate with all businesses stakeholders due to privacy concerns and difficulties in tracing and tracking information.

While there are excellent design collaboration tools like AutoCad 360, BIM tools, SolidWorks, BricsCAD etc, there was no communication collaboration tool till ArchChat was launched in January 2020.

Chetan K Singh said that "ArchChat is 100% free for architects, designers, engineering consultants and their clients. Using this easy-to-use platform, the design community can work from home and continue with business as usual."

Each project on ArchChat is like a WhatsApp group while being able to chat privately in a preferred language, and view respective communications for each drawing, design, and product sorted by project spaces. For instance, chats related to a living room are inside the 'living room' folder. Chats about each drawing, design, and product-related to the living room are saved with respective documents. With ArchChat, product sellers become collaborators when their products are saved to project spaces. This kind of integrated collaboration brings all together.

Chetan Singh recommends that designers use video conferencing tools like Google Meet, Hangouts, Skype, Zoom, etc to have virtual calls during this time to stay on top of project goals while leaving all project organization to ArchChat.

The survival of many freelancers, small and medium sized professional firms, manufacturers, and sellers is at stake. Working remotely in an efficient manner will save the design and construction industry from the current crisis.

About ArchChat

ArchChat is the only communication platform to collaborate on design and construction projects. It is also the only platform that lets project owners, architects & designers, engineering consultants, contractors, product manufacturers, sellers, art galleries, service providers like 3D designers and photographers come together to communicate and collaborate easily on live projects. ArchChat is used globally by thousands of designers. It has offices in Singapore and Gurgaon, India.

~ Newsvoir

Real Ways To Earn Money Without A Job And Without Leaving Home

The crisis caused by the coronavirus requires us to solve a number of tasks, both important and not very much so. The health care, that of your own and of your loved ones, is in the first place. And what matters next for the vast majority of us is having a job and money. Due to a sharp drop in production, the closure of enterprises and companies, quarantine and forced isolation, our financial stability and well-being have been threatened, revenues have gone down, and some have already reached zero. All this makes one wonder what to do and how to go on with one's life.

There are many ways to earn money without leaving your home. It is enough to have the Internet connection and a computer, a tablet or a smartphone. It is already now that millions of people, from schoolchildren to pensioners, earn extra income by clicking on the buttons of their gadgets, and some have even made it their main occupation.

You can earn money by clicking on links and viewing advertising texts and videos specified in the customer's task, and get 1, 2, or even 5 dollars a day for this. About the same amount can be obtained in social media by subscribing to the pages specified by the employer, joining groups, making "reposts", "tweets", and putting "likes".

You can earn money posting videos, having created your own YouTube channel and connecting ads from Google. But keep in mind that this must be a video created by you personally, otherwise YouTube will block your channel for plagiarism. Average earnings are $1-2 per 1000 views. Another option for "enrichment" is to publish advertising texts of your customers on various online forums, at a price of $0.5 per 1 placement.

Experts can name many other ways to make money by clicking on the keyboard buttons, but all of them do not compare to the profit that can be brought by online trading in currencies, cryptocurrencies, stocks, oil or precious metals. In terms of profitability, this trade is hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of times more profitable than the revenue from viewing ads or clicks in social media. With just a hundred or two dollars, you can earn thousands, tens of thousands of dollars. Some even become millionaires, and this is an undeniable fact.

"Of course, you can earn a lot," experts will say, " but you can also lose a lot." This, of course, is true to a certain point, but "a lot" is a relative concept: for some $5 is a lot of money, and for some $10,000 is not much. It is probably more correct to determine the degree of risk by comparing the ratio of possible losses and possible profits. Here lies the most important advantage of this type of earnings as trading in financial markets: the leverage.

Leverage is the credit that the online broker that you will start working with will automatically provide you for trading, immediately and without any collateral or securities (!). Let's take such an old and proven broker as NordFX as an example. So, it provides its clients with a leverage of up to 1 to 1000. As a result, having, say, only $100 in your account, you can make transactions worth 1000 times more! That is $100,000! Accordingly, your profit will be calculated from $100,000, and you risk only a hundred dollars.

And if your account has not a hundred, but several thousand dollars, then you will already be able to manage millions, buying and selling dollars, euros, pounds, yen, and dozens of other currencies. As for trading cryptocurrencies, for example, you will only need $150 to buy Bitcoin at its current price of $6,000 with the NordFX broker.

See how profitable it is?

In addition to currencies and cryptocurrencies, NordFX clients can make transactions with gold, silver, oil, major stock indexes such as Dow Jones, SPX500, NASDAQ, etc. They can also buy and sell shares of many world leading companies, including IBM, JP Morgan Chase, Coca-Cola, Mastercard, McDonalds, Microsoft, Twitter, UBER, eBay, and many others.

And, please note, this is very, very important! Especially in the context of the COVID-19 coronavirus crisis. The NordFX client can earn not only on the growth, but also ... on the fall in the price of any of the listed assets, while not even possessing them! That is, the client can make a great profit, even if, for example, Bitcoin or the Bank of America shares collapse to zero, and Boeing turns out to be completely bankrupt.

Is it a fairy tale? No, it is 100% reality! Experts from the brokerage company NordFX Support Service  will be happy to tell you in detail how such a miracle can happen.

And in conclusion, a few words for those who, for some reason, either for the lack of time or desire, do not want or cannot trade on their own. Don't you want to? You don't need to! Others can do it for you. First, there are trading robots: special computer programs that will perform transactions completely on their own 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Secondly, you can automatically copy trades of experienced traders from all over the world to your account. And finally, third, you can invest your funds in NordFX specialized Investment Funds. It is quite possible that now is the best time for this, because, as the old exchange rule says, "you need to buy on panic, sell on euphoria", and the panic caused by COVID-19 will allow you to become a co-owner of many world giants at the best price.

Do you have any questions left? Of course, you do! You can't but have them, as the world of online trading in financial markets is limitless, just as the profit that can be obtained here is limitless. And all this without leaving your home computer. Although, some manage to cope with a smartphone while walking with their favorite pet or  during a morning jog. It is important just to start, not to miss the chance, and then, as the ancient Romans said, "Viam supervadet vadens": "The road is made by walking".

The beginning of the road is here! 

Notice: These materials are not investment recommendations or guidelines for working in financial markets and are intended for informational purposes only. Trading in financial markets is risky and can result in a complete loss of deposited funds.