It’s office time, in Brindavan Gardens

WFH offering IT professionals an opportunity to mix work with tourism

Information Technology professionals Moazzam Hussain and his wife Shiba Fathima may not have dreamt of having their workstations in the midst of beautifully landscaped gardens and finely manicured lawns adorned with fountains of water. But, the concept of Work From Home (WFH) adopted by several companies to combat the COVID-19 pandemic has given many employees an opportunity to live such experiences by mixing work with tourism. Encouraged by photographs of a colleague working from a picturesque locale at Sardar Sarovar Dam in Gujarat that was shared on a social media platform, Mr. Hussain and Ms. Fathima, both employees in different IT companies in Bengaluru, packed their bags and set out to Mysuru and checked into a hotel earlier this week. Every morning, they hire a cab from their hotel to reach Brindavan Gardens, adjoining the KRS reservoir, situated at a distance of about 22 km from Mysuru. They make themselves comfortable on the stone benches overlooking the expansive gardens spread across several acres before opening their laptops and starting their work by creating a hotspot from their mobile phones for internet connectivity.