Post COVID induced changes at workplace and Art Industry

Livemint     16th May 2020     Save    

Context: Covid pandemic induced changes in the realm of technology will alter the future of Art industry and workplaces by ensuring more safety, security and efficiency.

Post-Covid Technological Solutions at Workplace 

  • Interconnected devices and sensors, next-generation ID cards can help the workers in maintaining physical distancing.
  • Fingerprints sensors for face recognition (for attendance).
  • Wrist bands for maintaining physical distancing.
  • Heat-sensing trackers (at hospitals) for tracking patients’ body temperature. 
  • Video analytics software to determine whether social distancing is being maintained, monitor employee body temperature in real time, etc.
  • Connected lift: using a smartphone app to call lift ahead of arrival.
  • Smart appliances like voice command-controlled Microwaves or coffee machines .
  • NFC-based tags can enable contactless payments at toll plazas, parking spaces in office complexes or markets.

Major Setbacks in Art Industry: Apart from major Setbacks that Art Industry has gone through (Demonetization, GST, Financial crisis), covid-19 pandemic will offer several challenges to the art industry specially  performing artists who will have to consider  upskilling themselves.

Post-Covid Technological Solutions for India’s art industry

  • Online exhibition launched by commercial galleries.
  • Social media platforms are crowded with virtual events, performances and live conversations.
  •  Digital medium galleries that can replicate the feeling of walking through a physical space.

Way Forward

  • Thereby Technological Solution to the pandemic will ease the difficulties and challenges of the workplace and art industry posed by the lockdown by ensuring norms of hygiene and physical distancing.