Safety of Employees in IT Companies..

In recent time, I have heard a lot of news regarding the deaths of IT professionals, more so with female employees. Everybody knows the reasons for it and this post is not here to discuss the problem, but provide solutions.

While I agree many companies have started taking measures to ensure safety of employees, but it still lacks some place or other. Following are my recommendations to all the companies:

     

      1. Make it mandatory for employees to leave early! This option is most widely preached, but this doesn’t solve the problem for IT companies. What if the project requires the employee to stay late for work?

      2. Make Cab arrangements for the employees going late. This again is widely adopted solution, but again this is not fool proof and we all know how many cases have happened with the employees traveling through Cab, though less but still there are and we cannot deny that.

So, here is my take, why not provide employees, especially female employees with laptops and ask them to work from home if it gets late. This is very simple solution that will ensure that all employees leave early and yet be available for late working hours. Though I do not deny the fact that infrastructural cost of company would go up investing in ‘so-many’ laptops, but look at the benefits you get from it. Now only safety, but we ensure less electricity bills & use of company’s resources!

Don’t you think the cost-benefit analysis here will be fruitful?

There are few companies who have implemented this and let this be the beginning of new safety era.

Saving Energy, Going Green...

Hello people, long time and I have been kept busy with loads of work.

Recently I am planning to purchase a new system and idea overflow is natural to me, so here it is what I thought of…

Computer parts should be able to shut themselves on/off based on requirement to conserve energy. In this age of Global warming one must think and think faster than time to conserve energy. If I have a relatively high-end system that requires ~650 Watts to power CPU, Graphics Card, HDD etc. etc. then why not I should be allowed to cut down on power when I do not require some part’s functionality. For an example if I am not playing games or if I am not working on application that is GC intensive, I should be able to ‘plug-off’ the power to it and still be able to work with a ‘converted low-end system’. This is no big deal, we have seen things with which we can do this, and there we have products like external HDDs which can be unplugged when not required thus contributing to the cause of saving energy. Parts like GCs are power hungry and we do not use them every time we use the system, like while surfing Internet at least not in current days scenario. We have power saving features in monitors, LCD which I am not getting into, those are external to the system.

Some of you might argue that why go for such high-end solutions when you can live without it. Well do you really think that would solve the problem??