In this episode, Mahalakshmi and Lakshminarayan  share their perspectives with Sivaguru on:

• How they got into IT
• Maha finding her liking for bug fixing with some development, over development only
• How a production support role gave her more flexibility with her time
• Having a supportive environment at work and home, and more flexibility with time after having a kid
• Being lucky to be on a project that allowed this flexibility
• How, for Lakshmi, while there were changes in the work hours, there was no change in terms of the understanding and support for women colleagues
• Chipping in to support Maha with some of the child related activities
• How, working from home has increased the expectations on availability over extended hours
• The growing mutual understanding among peers and teams or the need to balance personal and work demands, particularly while working in a dispersed model
• The significance and benefit of discussions on the nature of work with one’s spouse, even before getting married for better understanding

Lakshminarayanan Natarajan, has been in the IT industry for 12 years and is currently working as project lead in development work.

Mahalakshmi Ganesan has been in the  IT industry for the last 7 years and is presently a technology analyst , working in an application support team .