Industry has started taking actual as well as precautionary measures. Reduction of work force, salaries, on desirable or luxury investments or expansions. The impact is on Employees.

Employees have to reorient and align to the organization goals, strategies, now, never-like-before.

There is a recruitment freeze in the market, so it’s not a right time to explore new opportunities. Billable recruitments may still happen, but it comes at a price. The usual 20-30% hike from present model is not working.

Employees expecting salary hikes, increments, incentives and revisions have to wait. It’s time to hold the fort than acquiring new territories. Patience is the key word here.

IT staff have utilized their time to reskill themselves (or at least, I believe so). The courses are available free of cost. Training and product companies have utilized this phase. New skills need a platform to put them in use. New employers may not provide these experimental platforms to their new employees. They’ll rely on their existing staff to do those experiments.

Many of these IT employees have moved out of metro cities to their hometowns in tier-2 and tier-3 cities. Infrastructure limitations are there. And it will be frustrating too. Maintaining a calm composure is very essential during these testing times.

If Internet is not there, you can go back to the legacy way of self-empowerment through hard copy books! You can install a virtual machine on your laptops and setup a lab environment for learning. You can join audio call conferences and talk to senior colleagues. Learning should not stop.

It’s not the time to imagine the growth, what it would have been, if Covid-19 was not there. This is the time to focus on how you can sail through this phase and come-out in flying colors. Like all other calamities, this would also pass.

When going gets tough, only the tough gets going! This quote to be remembered NOW!