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.
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