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<blockquote data-quote="Channel Hopper" data-source="post: 746223" data-attributes="member: 175144"><p>Removing the need for commuting in the first place. </p><p></p><p>The idea/analysis was handed to the Mayor back in 2001 by myself and quite a few others - prior to the Congestion Charge being implemented, with changes to employment from a virtual office or remote location without the need to travel into the capital (or any other built up area). </p><p></p><p>Figures based on the type of work carried out showed around 20% of all commuters would get to their office and either pick up a telephone, type, or surf their way through the day, when they could be doing exactly the same elsewhere. The SOHO (Small Office Home Office) rollout would have included voice conferencing equipment, lower rates for calls from the providers and an accurate system of logging on for time keeping. Employers and staff in about half the example job situations would benefit by around four hours a day from both the removal of the travel times, lower third party costs (food/beverage/laundry etc) and the original workplace could lose much of the furniture/fittings, as well as lowering lighting/heating costs.</p><p></p><p>The response we got from the authorities was to be ignored, the £5 charge went ahead and only three companies to date as far as I recall have realised the effectiveness of the remote office, BT being one of them.</p><p></p><p>_http://www.arup.com/_assets/_download/download51.pdf</p><p></p><p>Modern VOIP and smartlogging would of course make mincemeat of the earlier technologies proposed to remove the commuting aspect.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Channel Hopper, post: 746223, member: 175144"] Removing the need for commuting in the first place. The idea/analysis was handed to the Mayor back in 2001 by myself and quite a few others - prior to the Congestion Charge being implemented, with changes to employment from a virtual office or remote location without the need to travel into the capital (or any other built up area). Figures based on the type of work carried out showed around 20% of all commuters would get to their office and either pick up a telephone, type, or surf their way through the day, when they could be doing exactly the same elsewhere. The SOHO (Small Office Home Office) rollout would have included voice conferencing equipment, lower rates for calls from the providers and an accurate system of logging on for time keeping. Employers and staff in about half the example job situations would benefit by around four hours a day from both the removal of the travel times, lower third party costs (food/beverage/laundry etc) and the original workplace could lose much of the furniture/fittings, as well as lowering lighting/heating costs. The response we got from the authorities was to be ignored, the £5 charge went ahead and only three companies to date as far as I recall have realised the effectiveness of the remote office, BT being one of them. _http://www.arup.com/_assets/_download/download51.pdf Modern VOIP and smartlogging would of course make mincemeat of the earlier technologies proposed to remove the commuting aspect. [/QUOTE]
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