Mahesh Shah
Value My Wife Adds To Business: Nobody can be as trustworthy as your own family member. She has built a confidence in our company, which is very important. Whenever I am traveling or I am outstation, she confidently takes over the role and and provides full support.
Word Of Caution: Your wife comes to know of your actual income and her shopping list may go high, depending on the profit!
Down Memory Lane: In 2002, there was a chaotic situation our company. We had Wipro as our client for 15 years and the company was loosing confidence. During that period my wife was of great support in building the competence of the company.

Saroj Shah
Takes Care Of: Service department, managing the engineers Values Of Spouses Working Together: If there is a crisis at home, one has the flexibility to work from home. You can manage the priorities of your home and office according to the situation. You don't have a lot of boundaries.
Demerit: There is no disadvantage of working with your husband. The working environment could be same anywhere but here you get a lot of flexibility.
Emotional Front: We were clear from the beginning that we would not interfere much in each other's work and we should give space to each other. There should not be much nose-poking in each other's tasks.

Pranaav Tele-Ventures, Chennai

S Mahendran
Value My Wife Adds To Business: She is very aggressive in carrying out her tasks in the business. She is very active in keeping track of the market. She is of great support in planning things at work and she acts much more than a wife in a business relationship. If there is a tense situation, she take care of it.
Word Of Caution: Once you are in business, you should treat each other as business partners and not with emotional relations.
Down Memory Lane: When we started in March 2006, we had the opportunity to close the first project worth Rs 30 lakh. Though that was the first business deal, but she helped a lot in completing the transaction and making it successful.

Priya Mahendran
Takes Care Of: Finance Values Of Spouses Working Together: You get the space to discuss anything and can share a lot. One does not have to hesitate to speak out and you work for the benefit of your own company. There is a sense of deep attachment with the work and it creates mutual benefits. You know the expectation level of each other and you understand your duty. This helps in higher productivity.
Demerit: You tend to always think and talk about the business, when at home or outside. The center of the discussion always revolves around business. Also, if the husband is your boss, you cannot complain about him to anybody else!
Emotional Front: One should not take official matters home and make sure that there is no ego clash. We do not interfere in each other's specialized area and zone of work. This helps in executing our work independently.

Jain Peripherals, Gurgaon

Manish Jain
Value My Wife Adds to Business: She contributes a lot in the office and her presence makes a great difference. In an office environment having her makes it easy to discuss any issue and I know I can trust her. She puts full concentration into whatever she does and is currently managing important operations of my business.
Word Of Caution: When husband and wife work together, the disadvantage is the distance from children. Both the parents get so involved in the work that it becomes difficult to spend the entire day with kids.
Down Memory Lane: In 2002, I had a very bad accident and had to take bed rest for five months. That was the time when my wife joined my business. Though she was new to the business, she took up all the responsibilities and executed her tasks very well.

Manisha Jain
Takes Care Of: Sale, purchase, HR, finance and marketing Values Of Spouses Working Together: The biggest advantage is that your husband is your boss and when you make a mistake it is better to get scolded at by him rather than anybody else. You don't feel very bad when there are difficult situations. There is an understanding between spouses. You know each other very well and it is easy to take a decision as you are available for each other anytime of the day.
Demerit: There is no disadvantage as such but there are certain limitations. For example, the expectation level is very high as you are from the family, and one has to perform to their best all the time.
Emotional Front: We do not drag any emotional issues into office because the moment we enter the office, we get so absorbed in the work that we hardly get time to think on those lines. We keep the home and office issues separate and this ensures that any emotional conflict is kept at bay.

Secant Technology, Ludhiana

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