Team Blitz India
After the record rains in UAE, many employees in Dubai and Sharjah have been working from home for the past week. Many are requesting their companies to extend their work-fromhome option as their cars have been submerged in water for the past one week.
Also, many car owners are forced to either extend their work from home, opt for rent-a-car or borrow it from friends in order to resume their work from office.
A sales and marketing executive, who took special permission from his office to work from home in Abu Shaghara, Sharjah, said, “I shared the photos and videos with my team for special permission to work from home. And they have given me a few days to settle down. So, I plan to resume office in a week.” His car too has been submerged in rainwater.
“We are sending photos of the flooded basement to the insurance company every day but they insist that they need to see the car with the number plate in the water. Once the water recedes, only then we can go into the basement and see the conditions of the vehicle,” he said.
“Cars are still submerged. People parked their vehicles randomly in a hurry on the ground floor when they realized that the basement would be submerged. Right now, working from home is the only option. And if I don’t get my car up and running soon, then I have to go for rent-a-car option,” Faisal Ahmed, a resident of Al Warsan 1 near International City, said.
Ahmed added that many car owners are still waiting for the water to recede in the basement so that they can go and click photos of their vehicles to send them to the insurance company.
