CULTURAL QA7-2021-17 Being acompilation there may be errors
Q1 ManyIT companies are going to continue with “work from home” even after corona daysare over. What are the pros/cons of this in future? How is it going to affecteverything(Real estate, traffic, culture etc) that has changed by IT in last 2decades? A1 Balaji Viswanathan CEO of InventoRobotics.May 18, 2020 WorkFrom Home is a solution for a middle aged manager who is commuting long andgets huge distraction at office with the politics. The solution is paraded as asilver bullet across all worker segments now. It is a double edge sword. Ihave done work from home in various forms for 14 years, managed remote teams alot of times. Theadvantages include helping cities become green by reducing commute and reducingthe population [you don’t need to live in cities]. It enables many women andcaretakers to get back into work without having to give up on their family. Andallows people in rural areas to access the job markets. Inmy personal experience, when the WFH is 1–2 days a week, it can be quiteproductive. I have been trying this for years and allows me a couple of calmdays to get deeper work done. However, when we make Work From Home into RemoteWork all days a week, it can produce various undesirable consequences. It turns workers into a commodity. Manycompanies are waking up to the concept not to give more rights to the workers,but to take advantage of cheap labour pool around the world. Labour arbitragethat started from the 1990s will happen in a much bigger form and unless youare living in the cheapest possible place, your work could always move to thenext cheapest guy. When you can hire from anywhere in theworld your salaries for most urban employees will go down. Workers are going tocompete with everyone in the world. That said businesses also would competeworldwide for talent and that would mean more salaries to a few [those who arein cheap locations] It cuts off the emotional bonds of an office and reduces one toa report. In a large company there can be politics and anonymity that has longtaken off any bonding. However, in smaller, closely knit companies and teamsthis can be deadly. You know how people are spending their birthday parties onZoom [so sad] that becomes your work life. It cuts one of the few avenues foryou to make friends after you leave college. It makes it much easier to fire people. It is much harder tofire a person when he/she is out there in the office and gels well with theteam. You have to think about all team dynamics. With remote workers, there isno emotional bond. Once the performance starts slipping [in your opinion] orthe economy is bad or team demands have changed they get the cut. There will bea lot less room for error in those situations. Job security that has been goingdown since 1990s will go down even more. Work invades life. Many workers think workfrom home as a positive thing initially. Eventually they realise that thecompany has other plans — there is no distinction between you at home and youat work. That means you at work all the time. It is a pay cut for many. You need a bigger home now because youneed a dedicated place to work to be productive. You now pay for everything —from computers to bandwidth to coffee to stationery. For those whose commutingexpenses are more than this, it is not a problem. For many others it is. Your career depends completely on your communication skills. When youare at office there is a greater degree of visibility due to physicalpresence and more people can understand what you are working. When you areremote, your career becomes entirely dependent on your monthly reports andresponses during the standup calls. Those who have excellent skills, but cannotcommunicate that well will be at a great disadvantage. The guy who writes greatreports will win. For those without structure and self-discipline the career becomes anon-starter. Many workers start their career without much structure.Office moulds them into who they are. However, if people start their careerremote, there is no easy venue for structure building and you are like therookie swimmer dropped in the deepest part of the pool expecting to get alone.Without mentoring and the benefits of an office careers of many young peoplewill be stunted. Effects on cities and real estate: Commercial real estate will lose value as companies move out.This is a good thing in many places. Many low-end offices will be torn down,replaced by apartments as people will be able to afford the now fallen price ofland. However, many governments that are dependent on property taxes will cuttheir services leading to urban misery. Like what happened to Detroit andPittsburgh. Cities will become less crowded as less people need to be in thecities and even less people need to be at the office. If you can move to yourvillage or the suburb it is a great thing. You will be competitive. But, ifyour spouse, children or parents are tied to the location, you are in for amisfortune. All the businesses depend on people coming to an office —commercial security, cleaning, coffee shops, interior decorators will go for atoss. Cities would be blighted. While the effect of a commute can bebad, there are other solutions. In ourcompany we instituted policies to give additional allowance to those livingclose to work [for some it can be 10% additional salary]. This way we walk towork — without worrying about commutes — and get the best of both worlds — workand home. This might not be a solution to all [many might have bought homes inwhich they are quite emotional or have kids settled in schools], but could bethought of the third way for some. Q2 Howlong can drinking water be stored in a copper vessel? Does it need to becleaned and/or have new water added every night? 2 Answers Geeta Varma , AyurvedaConsultant at Shree VishwamatreAyurveda Clinic & Panchakarma Center, 114, Shah Arcade 3, Near Pas…Answered January 12, 2018 Firstof all copper vessels should be cleaned every day. Because copper reacts withthe oxygen in the air and oxides of copper is formed on the surface of vessel.The black bluish discoloration on the vessel. This oxides are poisonous tohealth. Soit should be cleaned both internaly and externally. Waterin copper vessels should be kept only for 12 hrs. After 12 hrs that watershould be consumed and fresh water should be added. 2ND ANSWER James Watkins,60 credits Engineering &Mathematics, California State University, NorthridgeUpdated December 9, 2016 Idon't have any documentation, but my own experiences with having copper pipemake me believe that clean water could be stored in copper vesselsindefinitely, and remain safe for drinking. ‘New’water, with its bonus of fresh aeration, should be added nightly, to maintainfreshness of taste. Iwould recommend daily cleaning for any open Drinking Water containers, ongeneral principles. Q3 Whatwill happen if I have a reserved ticket but enter in the wrong coach due tohurry? A3 Prasanna BhaleraoKnows about trains.July 11 Thetrain in India has most of the coaches interconnected via vestibules. So havingentered a wrong coach in a hurry is not the end of the world. Whileboarding, you may not know that you are boarding the wrong coach. You wouldfind out soon as you reach “your seat”, it is occupied. When you discover this,you may be under the assumption that the other person is wrongly occupying yourseat (unless you knew beforehand that you have boarded the wrong coach). Youshould not assume anything and try to resolve the matter in an amicable manner.This is done by calling the TTE. TheTTE will resolve the matter and inform you that you are in the wrong coach.Sometimes one TTE manages multiple coaches’ reservation charts. If he is alsoin charge of your actual coach, no issues. If not, he will immediately informthe other coach TTE (of your coach) that you have boarded. This will tell the TTE that youare not missing and your seat will be safe. In fact, the TTE waits for 1 hour beforehe allocates a vacant seat to the next person on RAC. The real hassle is that you will haveto navigate your way through the narrow aisles to your coach. If you have heavybags, this will be very tiring. Onthe whole, it is best that one arrives at the platform well in advance. Give atleast 15 minutes. Find out the coach location/position and make sure you are inplace so that you board the right coach. Of course, sometimes, there are impediments such astraffic, rains, floods, etc., that delay you. It is better to be prepared. Q4 Whatis a property of water which makes an object appear lighter in it? A4 Tom Hartley , Thrown out of Physics,The University of YorkAnswered April 22 Itis the density of the water Anobject that is less dense than water will float in it and appear to have noweight. Whenthe density of the object (its weight divided by its volume) is the same aswater it will float perfectly level. Theobject appears lighter by the weight of the water displaced (pushed out of theway). The same effect happens in air, butair is so much less dense than most objects that we don’t really notice it and can ignore it in most calculations (acubic metre of air, about the amount displaced by a large refrigerator, weighs1.2kg, about 2.7lbs). But it explains why a helium balloon floats away. Q5 Whatis the earliest species of hominid that was more human than ape? A5 Claire JordanWorked at National HealthService (NHS)March 24 Asit stands the question is meaningless, because humans are a type of ape. Ifyou mean, more human than chimp (our closest relatives), then probably Homohabilis, the first member of genus Homo, around 1.5 to 2 million years ago.It’salmost tautological to say so, because that’s what being in genus Homo means -noticeably more similar to other members of genus Homo, including us, than toother genera. Homo habilis Theystill had quite chimp-like faces and may have still been quite furry, but theywere fully bipedal and were able to use - and, crucially, to make - simple butquite effective wooden and stone tools. Chimps are able to use suitably-shapedstones which they find, but haven’t worked out how to work the stone to get abetter shape. Waterin liquid form sticks together because of difference in electromagnetically ofhydrogen and oxygen. These difference makes covalently bonded electrons towardsoxygen than hydrogen and gives minute charge difference between hydrogen andoxygen atoms. Heatenergy separates water molecules and gives water vapor. Energytransformation : Static electric attractive (electric) force to Kinetic energy(means gives velocity to water molecules) of molecules. Energytransformation is from Electrical to Mechanical energy Jim Griepenburg, Analytical andPhysical Organic Chemist Answered July23, 2018 Heatfrom the stove is "breaking" the intermolecular forces in the liquid,ie. increasing the potential energy of the gas molecules, and doing work inpushing back the atmosphere to make room for the water vapor. That work term iswhat makes deltaH or enthalpy change = to Q the heat input. Don't worry we getit all back when the water vapor condenses. The pertinent question is,"Where?" Q6 Doyou recycle your milk cartons? A6 Sixanswers AnswersAnn Brells, formerApplication Supervisor at NYISO (1970-1994)Answered 1h ago Yes.We have weekly pickup of single source recycling and milk cartons are accepted. Fromthe resident's point of view single source is terrific. Since it is all cleanwe keep a fairly large tall kitchen bag sized plastic can in our kitchen withno liner in it. In goes all recycling, newspapers, plastic bottles, glassbottles, paper, aluminum cans, whatever is allowed, after rinsing of course. Theonly separate recycling we do is to store plastic supermarket bags under thesink for household use. When it gets too full we take them back to supermarketfor recycling. 2nd answer Chris Cox, livesin Poole, DorsetAnswered 9m ago Webuy milk in 2litre plastic bottles that are recyclable. Non-dairy milk tends tobe sold in plastic coated cardboard which is NOT easily recyclable, but as wedon’t buy such milk it is irrelevant. Weget the occasional glass bottle from my MIL (she sometimes has too much), whichwe wash out and then they are returned to the milkman for recycling. Yes, we dostill get doorstep deliveries here in my village. 3rd answer Jan, lives inAntwerp, BelgiumAnswered 1h ago Ido not recycle these personally, but I put them in the PMD bag, which is blue. PMDis an abbreviation for the waste from plastic bottles and flasks, metal packagingand drink cartons. The packaging waste is collected together and recycled aftersorting. 4th answer A Saba Qamar, MBA from University of Warwick (2018)Answered 2h ago Cartonsare made mainly from paper, with a thin layer of polyethylene (plastic), socartons can be recycled. Milk, soup, and milk alternatives, like soy and almondmilk, are just some of the products packaged in cartons that are recyclable inyour blue box or container cart! 5th answer John Lingley,lives in Great Britain (1952-present)Answered1h ago Ourmilk usually comes in plastic bottles, which when empty go in the recyclingbin. Howeverif I need them I will often cut them in half, punch a couple of holes in thebottom and use them for growing seeds in. Much cheaper than buying pots. 6th answer Harold Green ,raised and sold freshwater and marinefish for over 60 yearsAnswered 37m ago Iused to take the cardboard ones and fill them with soil and plant seedlings inthem until they were big enough to set out. All the above QA are based on Quora digest to meon 16-7-2021. Quora answers need not be 100% correct answers Compiled and posted by R. Gopala krishnan on 17-7-2021 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. 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