Working from home or working in the lab or office!

 Working from home is the need of the current year due to the global pandemic. It's so amazing that the concept of "Work from home" had been in place only for some of the strata of people such as new mothers of people who have recovered from a recent illness. However, the "Work from home" has been given as a first choice to most of the people, in order to, be more responsible in fighting the pandemic. 

Modern technologies have been developed for supporting "Work from home" such as various options of online video meetings, online classes, and so forth. So, there is no need for meeting people personally when online meetings are so handy. 

Secondly, if one works in a research laboratory, is it feasible to work from home. Well, it all depends on the kind of laboratory. If it is a wet laboratory, where a lot of experiments are to be run, the laboratory can strategically plan for having batches of people running their respective experiments. Moreover, one does not need to spend hours together in the laboratory. Experimental planning, data analysis, and associated work can always be managed with "work from home" mode. Hence, out of spending around 10-12 hours in a biology research laboratory, one can easily cut short that timing by one third to save oneself and their people from the perils of the ongoing pandemic.

The best advantage of the "work from home" mode is the opportunity to be with oneself and one's family. This helps one to concentrate energies instead of dissipating them for fruitful results, the better ideas.

Finally, the new pandemic has given a new perspective to all of us. Once we are able to harness this perspective in the right way, creativity and output can be tremendous. Also, the overall satisfaction in a researcher's life also can be attained.