Post COVID induced changes at workplace and Art Industry

Livemint     16th May 2020     Save    
QEP Pocket Notes

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.
QEP Pocket Notes