Wednesday, 24 June 2020

The Zoho Experiment: Sridhar Vembu dabbles with Indian village offices as employees move home


Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the #SaaS company Zoho Corporation is experimenting with 10 village offices in Tamil Nadu where its staff will be able to access Zoho Corporation’s feeder offices, situated in not more than 20-30 kilometres from their home towns.

I think if distributed work culture, where people start working near their hometowns, is encouraged, then the dream of Mahatma Gandhi will become a reality in achieving true democracy in villages and stop unnecessary evil of migration in India. Such initiatives should also be encouraged for gig workers as well.

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The Zoho Experiment: Sridhar Vembu dabbles with village offices as employees move home

In the southernmost part of Tamil Nadu, closer to a tiger reserve in Mundanthurai, and the Tier-V cities of Tenkasi, Tirunelveli, is a village where Zoho Corp Founder Sridhar Vembu, from the last nine months, is trying to pull off the unexpected. Sridhar requested YourStory to keep the name of the village where he is working anonymous.

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