What is on Your Mind?

Yea, Hyderabad is safe, clean and green. I was there for three years before years and it was IT spot place. It was really booming at that time and i guess now it has already boomed. I have visited many cities but nothing like Hyderabad. Oooop's, Goa is missing out in the poll...

Oh, I can add it...

IT people live and work in Goa?

Well, you got me on that but IT people can work from anywhere now a days though Goa is a tourist spot.

I don't think many Indians work remotely from Internet locations, like in the US. Isn't that right?

From my understand, and please correct me if my knowledge is out-of-date, the business culture in Indian remains dominated by working from offices and data centers; and few people work from home, including IT people.

I guess those who live in India should speak out now though to work from office is becoming and will become like a culture in many countries soon(especially after Cloud Computing).

Hi Malcomex999,

I think you may be changing the subject. My query is not about "cloud computing" and "the future of computing or the Internet"... it is about business culture today.

It seems you are not living or working in India, or even a developing country with conservative business and cultural norms.

Where do you live and work?

Have you been to India and worked there? Thailand? Vietnam? Burma? Malaysia?

There is a huge difference, in most countries, especially developing ones, between technology and business culture.

For example, in Thailand most IT people in large companies are still required to show up for work with a dress shirt and neck tie, even if they are working in a computer lab. There are a few exceptions because the business culture is different. It is not like in the US where in most big companies these days, IT people can dress very casual.

Also, Japan, which is very modern, has a similar dress code and strict office culture. The business culture in Japan is based around the office and not remote home-office work. Having a high speed Internet nearly everywhere and one of the most advanced technology infrastructures in Japan does not mean the business culture is "cloud computing" LOL.

Hahaha... when I used to work in Tokyo, my Japan colleague carried a red neck tie around for me in his briefcase; because I never wore one; and he insisted I had to put one on to visit a Japanese client. I really liked that guy; he was junior to me in the company but I always put the neck tie on when he asked, since he knew JP culture much better than me, a relatively dumb westerner (about JP business culture).

PS: I really like Japan, but working there can be very stressful! I will be back there in early spring of 2011.

Hey Neo, I though you are from Europe or from middle-east Asia. Ok!

What you say is right Neo. Most of the IT companies in India expect rather require the employees to come to office and work. Working from home is really an exception and needs to go via approval process by the manager and others - what am saying strictly applies to service based companies and not all the IT companies in general.

When it comes to core product companies ( which are very few in India ) there is no such concept of 'mandatory presence in office and working', 'strict dress code'. I work in a product company where there is no such constraints. Whatever suits the employee in turn showing great productivity will work out here. We have an employee who sits with his laptop in Cafetaria most of the time, sometimes you can't different whether he is working for the company or for the cafetaria but that helps him
But I prefer going to office and work ( you can't change the usual mind set suddenly ; ) ) because the face to face interaction helps a lot for design reviews, code reviews, general work related problems in the team and boost the team morale as well.

Also, working from home saves me around 4 hours in commute everyday that is one great reason I work from home more often but not daily