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Everybody says we’re fit!…contd 4

Wednesday, May 12th, 2010

Topping days with desktop exercise

When man was a nomad, he was uncivilized but fit. Today man is an inventor and user of electronic technology, civilized but unfit. He sure has traveled through Stone Age, Iron Age to Electronics Age but the journey has left him flabby.

Like employees of AnyLinuxWork , most professionals and students rely much on their laptops, desktops et al. Most people rightly think that this makes them efficient and faster. However, what they don’t realize is that these gadgets may be weakening down their immunity system by under-utilizing their body for manual/physical tasks.

That is where, AnyLinuxWork employees beg to differ. Every five minutes, they get up and walk around. They stretch and flex parts of their bodies like wrists, shoulders, neck, back, lower back, waist, neck, thighs to extremities like fingers, ankles and toes to prevent chronic aches.

The latest on IO’s fitness palate is the guidance that they get from desktop exercise sessions. These sessions are held every week for all AnyLinuxWork employees who never miss out on a single day.

The first phase of these sessions involve enlightening the employees about the ill effects of sitting for long duration. Now they have learnt about appropriate sitting posture, which they practiced first during the exercise sessions.

The best about Desktop exercises is that they can be done anytime during the day. Two, they are being increasingly encouraged in the current work cultures worldwide. AnyLinuxWork is one of the pioneers in India that have imbibed it among employees. Here are a few extremely easy exercises that we do at AnyLinuxWork.

Office Yoga

Yoga can be fun especially when you know it can help in releasing tension and increasing muscle strength and flexibility. Some Office Yoga tips:

1. Stretching: Stretch with the arms’ shoulder width apart, clasp hands and elbows backward. It can adjust the shoulder muscle imbalance and promote the blood of ministry of the head, neck, and shoulder to circulate.

2. Swing Shoulder: Hold the left leg with right hand; put the left hand behind back. Then swing shoulder from left to right for 3-5 times. It can adjust the shoulder muscle balance.

3. Neck and spinal column: Put the center of gravity on the left or right and take exercise for 20 times. It can adjust the pliability of spinal column and neck; promote the blood circulation.

4. Waist and shoulder: Bend body slowly for 10 times. It can relieve the fatigue of waist and should; promote metabolism.

5. Exercise for pelvis: Put hands on the knee, then put the center of gravity on the left leg or right leg and take exercise for 50 times. It can relieve the fatigue of pelvis.

Is that much of a deal? Not for AnyLinuxWork employees for sure. It is said that the best things come in small packages. Stretching is a little routine that can work wonders and add efficiency to our work as well. Lets do a bit of stretching today.

For more on fitness doses, watch this space!

Everybody says we’re fit!

Thursday, April 1st, 2010

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AnyLinuxWork encashes prospects post meltdown

Thursday, April 1st, 2010

The world changes every minute. And it seems nowhere in history was it more apparent than now. Yesterday we see a superpower grinding to a halt and today we see an underdog rising rapidly. American recession is followed by global meltdown and its recovery. US universities are coming to India to recover from losses with predictions getting momentum that India would be the most educated by 2030.

The IT world for that matter has had its fair share of contradictions since beginning. The latest addition to the tradition is by a 22-year old Indian cyber crime expert who claims he has solutions to all kinds of cyber problems.

The picture is good for big and small IT companies is general and ALW in particular. As many companies excitedly expand capacities, ALW, that successfully survived in the Dark Ages, is striving to get its processes right. It is ready to take on the challenges and use every opportunity available. We have re-defined our infrastructure , policies and shaped up more talents in the course of time. A few facts would make it clear. We already have a spare capacity in our infrastructure of 40 seats that can be utilized any time. The Training batch is in place and would be ready within two months time. We have automatized our training, infrastructure etc and scaled up operations.

As for technology, ALW has got its fingers into Majento, Alfresco so that our learning curve would be less now. We have developed products that are now ready to be marketed. The much-awaited fitness portal is ready while its marketing is on cards now. In addition, our software development projects now have a lot of value added services like SEO and SMM. No surprises thus that our team is high on morale particularly in view of the fact that the recession time never could take a toll on the members. Genius is one per cent inspiration and 99 per cent perspiration. Our team truly lives up to it. They are a bunch of self-motivated individuals who take  every project work as a pleasant challenge that would open more scope of learning and growing.