Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday took to networking site LinkedIn to speak to young professionals that adapting to new technology in the times of COVID-19 can help create new business models and lead to the engagement of a large segment of Indians, including the poor , with technical solution.
“India, with the right blend of the physical and the virtual, can emerge as the global nerve centre of complex modern multinational supply chains in the post Covid-19 world. Let us rise to that occasion and seize this opportunity. I urge you all to think about this and contribute to the discourse,” the PM urged the youth. The shift from BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) to WFH (Work From Home) brought new challenges to balance the official and personal, he wrote on Linkedin, the social media platform for professionals.
The Prime Minister also said that the novel coronavirus outbreak has significantly changed the contours of professional life and these days home is the new office and internet is the new meeting room, adding that the need of the hour is to think of business and lifestyle models that are easily adaptable.
” Doing so would mean that even in a time of crisis , our offices , bussinesses and commerce could get moving faster ensuring loss of life doesn’t occur .” he said
He listed what, according to him, could be the five defining features of business and work culture in the post-pandemic world. “I call them vowels of the new normal because like vowels in the English language, these would become essential ingredients of any business model in the post-Covid world — Adaptability (business and lifestyle models that are easily adaptable), Efficiency (re-imagining what we refer to as being efficient), Inclusivity (that attaches primacy to care for the poor, the most vulnerable as well as our planet), Opportunity(every crisis brings with it an opportunity), and Universalism (the virus does not see race, religion, colour, caste, creed, language or border before striking),” he said.
Modi said the next big ideas from India should find global relevance and application and should have the potential to drive changes globally.
Emphasising on the need for unity in the fight against the virus, he said, “Our response and conduct thereafter should attach primacy to unity and brotherhood. We are in this together. Unlike previous moments in history, when countries or societies faced off each against each other, today we together facing a common challenge. The future will be about togetherness and resilience.”
