Analysis of positive impact of lockdown on skills acquisition using online collaboration tools
Surya Pathak, Sakshi Duggal · 2020
In recent days, COVID-19 has affected economical, psychological, and societal parameters During Lockdown, People were forced to stay at home for a long period as never before During this scenario, the only medium to communicate with each other was virtual platforms such as collaborating apps /tool etc Apart from leisure activities, people have utilized this time to enhance their existing skills either willingly or forcefully The focus of the present paper is to analyze the positive impact of Lockdown on the common people in terms of their skills enhancement A survey was conducted in the NCR region where Lockdown was strictly imposed Percentage analysis and Chi-Square test were employed to analyze the data In the paper, willingness to learn new tools, types of skills learnt, selection of a tool and most used feature of a tool have been described on the basis of statistical results The findings have statistically proven that people have learnt new technology via using new tools Furthermore, statistical tests were employed to gain insight about association of selection of tools with gender and job status No significant association was found among gender and selection of tools In contrast, a significant association was found between selection of collaboration tools and respondents’ job status Observations on how common people have utilized their time to learn new skills-be it a technical or non-technical have been discussed thoroughly to achieve the objectives of study