
The Challenge of Having It All
The Challenge of
Having It All
A sneak peek into the challenges faced by Indian site Engineers and
their Manager:
Engineering is one such industry where when one enters, enters with the
planning of bidding adieu only when they complete six decades of their life. The industry offers lucrative perks and
benefits to its employees. The employees have insured finances, health, and assured job security too. But there
still lie certain challenges at the heart of the functioning of this sector.
If at all it was about having it all…
The Challenge of Having It All
A sneak peek into the challenges faced by Indian site Engineers and their Managers Engineering is one such industry where when one enters, enters with the planning of bidding adieu only when they complete six decades of their life. The industry offers lucrative perks and benefits to its employees. The employees have insured finances, health, and assured job security too. But there still lie certain challenges at the heart of the functioning of this sector. If at all it was about having it all….
COVID Failed Perks for Ensuring Employee Resilience (The Redefined Comfort)
Antarmanh Consulting has worked with the industry for around a decade now. The findings based on our work clearly show how paradoxically despite the sustainable assurance of multiple
resources for a secure lifestyle, the site engineers are struggling to bounce back to work especially post the
pandemic.
The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and the national lockdown from March to May 2020 had a differing
impact on the producing sectors of the Indian economy. Similar to the construction industry, manufacturing reportedly shrunk in the second quarter of 2020. While the threat of industrial shrinkage
was posed to the sector, the distance from the family has turned out to be a very significant variable pulling them
away from work, limiting all the pulls (in the name of reasonable assurances and insurances) towards work. This
became an additional challenge.

Not going back to the sites got supported by reasons like stress about family well-being, fearing the family health, fear of traveling, and catching the virus. Above it all was the fear of complete uncertainty – ‘When would this all be over, no one knows.’ The adversity of health impact was also unclear but there was surely immense anxiety around it. All this despite all insurances in place! The sole reason is that the psychological variables of stress clearly disguise and blind us to existing opportunities and comforts. It shifts our perception fulcrum.
