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The video call apps linking home workers with strangers

BBC News By Lorelei Mihala image captionFocusmate connects you, via a video call, to a stranger from somewhere else in the world When Subrato Sarker had to start working from home due to the pandemic, he found himself struggling to stay productive while being on his own. Help has come from a host of strangers across the world who - at the other end of a one-on-one video call - sit and silently do their work while Mr Sarker does his. The 26-year-old software engineer from Dhaka, in Bangladesh, has hooked up with these "digital buddies" via a website called Focusmate.

'Working alongside strangers online helps me focus'

'Working alongside strangers online helps me focus' © Focusmate Focusmate connects you, via a video call, to a stranger from somewhere else in the world When Subrato Sarker had to start working from home due to the pandemic, he found himself struggling to stay productive while being on his own. Help has come from a host of strangers across the world who - at the other end of a one-on-one video call - sit and silently do their work while Mr Sarker does his. The 26-year-old software engineer from Dhaka, in Bangladesh, has hooked up with these "digital buddies" via a website called Focusmate.

The video call apps linking home workers with strangers