Sriyog: Nepal’s Digital Platform to Connect Part-Time Employees and Employers

With the outbreak of Coronavirus 2019, it took on a monstrous form and brought down various call factories, industries, services, tourism, and other businesses. Many businesses have not been able to recover from this, but through the use of technology, home delivery, food delivery, sanitizer, mask, internet, internet banking, video conferencing apps, vegetable delivery, etc.; the trade and products created by the necessities and compulsions got a good market. There is not much room to spend the saved money. There is a situation where the market is created only by necessity rather than a luxury.

Overall, only digital platforms have saved connectivity where the demand for technological uses such as buying and selling vegetables, online money transfers, mobile payments, etc. increased. Now in the coming days, a different policy will come in the form of employment. As in developed countries, part-time work, or time-measuring work, might find a large place. If we start working on a contract basis (for a fixed period of time), we will not be able to create the same employment environment as before. As hotels, tourism, various factories, etc. have cut jobs, various organizations have been closed.

Employment with Sriyog

In the days to come, there might be employment opportunities only in the most urgent areas. Delivery of various goods, delivery of food, small work, and related works are given priority. Overall, the existing need is the opportunity. Founded in 2016, “Sriyog.com” is an app based on Google’s geolocation that connects part-time employees and employers through a digital platform.

How does it work?

Sriyog’s service is available in both web browsers and mobile phone apps in which job seekers and job givers are connected to each other. People associated with more than 150 professions should register their name, address, contact number. After registering, the person who is trying to get the job done can contact and get the job done.

It is also possible to keep information about whether you are leisurely or not by the manpower related to work. As a result, employers know who is leisurely or who is busy. Even in the calendar system, such information regarding meeting someone and meeting time can be easily seen.

In the coming days, it is important to create a working environment for people through digital platforms because the process of finding works and finding workers is not as easy as yesterday. During the lockdown, various digital delivery platforms have been seen. This is a digital platform based on a geo-location system that connects employers and skilled workforce without any third-party commissions, payments, or intermediaries in the understanding and agreement between purely working and hiring groups.

In case of work in someone’s home, office or any other place considering 18 groups and more than 150 sub-groups within it, the employer can book the employee to work for the nearest person from the geo-location-based system of this digital platform.

How to get a job?  

Every person has their own skills. To register any skill related to you on the digital platform of “Sriyog.Com”, you have to go to the “Register” page and fill in your details. After filling in the details, you have to go to your profile and add other skills and information. The person looking for the information according to the skills and location that matches you will contact in case they need you for their work. Every person has their own skills. To register any skill related to you on the digital platform of “Sriyog.Com”, you have to go to the “Register” page and fill in your details. After filling in the details, you have to go to your profile and add other skills and information. The person looking for the information according to the skills and location that matches you will contact in case they need you for their work.

How to find employees? 

You can go to “Sriyog.Com” to find a working group according to the place you want, and you can get information about the work by contacting someone close to you among the skilled manpower within it. After the work is done, such a person can be rated and reviewed (evaluated and reviewed).  

What are the opportunities for?  

Although the lockdown affects a variety of professions and groups, some of the most important groups in daily life can be connected to that group online or by following security measures. Those who want to get employment can register their details. There can be observed a great need for a hairdresser in Lockdown. People such as Online dance instructor, fitness instructor, physiotherapist as well as cleaning the bathroom of the place that has been closed for many days, washing bikes, washing cars, carpets, cleaning small gardens, cleaning homes or offices, washing clothes in someone’s home, a hostel or any other place, cleaning safety tanks, etc. will be able to work through the platform. Delivery of high priority food delivery, gas delivery, milk delivery, vegetable delivery, water delivery, etc. during the lockdown and if the persons concerned keep their details according to their location, the nearest person can place the order.

The Bigger Future

As soon as the lockdown becomes comfortable, the photographers, aluminum fabricators for new creations or new trades, car porches at home or office to protect cars, carpenters for any woodwork, carpet laying, cottage making, grills and shutters, marble and tiles, the need for technicians related to painting, prefab construction, contractors, wiring can be met through this digital platform. With the pandemic came a lot of use of information technology-related internet connection, related devices, mobile apps, zoom, Google meet, etc. In the IT era, we have given high priority to IT-related groups including CAD-CAM, CCTV Camera Technician, Computer Teaching, Digital Marketing, Graphic Designer, IT Support, Software Development, Typist-English, Typist-Nepali, Website Building etc. which are special carriers of IT.

The people concerned will be able to keep their details and provide services accordingly. Also the one who goes home or any other place to collect blood sample; i.e. blood sample collector, caregiver, doctor, medical assistant, nurse, veterinary service, gardener, labor, working women, babysitter, babysitter, laundry, cook, dishwasher, Duna-Tapari (plates made by leaves) maker, house cleaner and services such as working, sel-roti maker (Nepalese traditional food item), maternity care, etc. are always job-finding professions in daily life that focus on the spirit of service rather than work.

Lockdown has led to the need for permanent relocation, pest control, accounting assistant, business developer, dog trainer, electrician, fire controller, tuition teacher, insurance agent, legal service, music teacher, Nepali teacher, plumber, security guard, a tax specialist. Also, AC, Fridge Making, Computer Making, Electrician, Carpenter (Maintenance), Gas Stove Repair, Inverter-Battery Repair, Motor / Water Pump Repair, Plumber (Repair), TV & Internet Repair, Pundit & Priest, Ambulance, Bicycle hire, excavator hire, microbus hire, hearse technicians are also indispensable people in daily life.

Some are in a constant state of the search for work, while others are looking for workers, including those returning from foreign employment. If development and other things could be included, the focus could be on exports rather than imports.