Pandemic has taken everything by storm worldwide. Not only millions have suffered from disease, death, poverty, loneliness but we are on a brink of recession, slow growth with muted demand, and customer sentiments. In the extended lock down with the slow recovery, we all are looking earnestly for everything to be just alright. Yes, it will take time for everything to be normal or maybe this is the new “Normal” of being digital, social distancing, and lock down.

As we are waiting, it is probably also the countdown amidst uncertainty to get back with a calculated and thoughtful response. Yes, things may or may not be the same again and unprecedented challenges that we are facing each day, every day now are making us question every priority. The pandemic is the pause that will cause changes in the way we work and collaborate. Yes, it will be a slow recovery of the economy with business models, customer demand everything having a reset. But there is always a silver lining after a doom, and history is the witness that every doom had been a change to start the NEW, be the dotcom, 2008 prime recession or the Great Depression of the 1920s. Lot was affected but a lot also learned to adapt with the situation and forge ahead.

No way and no expert anywhere can predict a perfect way to get back to work with a full throttle in life or business but one thing is for sure that there is no dearth of opportunities for people/business/organizations who adapt themselves and continue adding value in one or the other way. And the one thing which definitely is the constant or new "Normal" is remote working, social distancing with newer tools being developed to collaborate and work. The future is either we are working in technology or with technology. And there is no escape from it.

Through this blog, we present to you a four-point plan to get back to business post the lock down. The best practices in crisis have been curated for the action plan.