Ramaswami: Work-from-home, like large-scale online education, is really quite an alien concept in India, outside of the corporate or media world—that too for officers with a certain higher ranking. This is because physical surveillance and control are important modes through which everyday work culture functions in most public and private sector workplaces. Also, becoming paperless and making all decisions through email are not a part of the public institutional culture in India. Does a public health crisis promoting social distancing become the basis of transformed office practices for the future? It is important to note that while through the social distancing advisory the GoI was asking private companies to work from home, it still kept its own offices open, with a 50% attendance advisory before the lockdown.