UKNM: Brighton Rock

[Ray Taylor]

Trevor May <

trevorre-flex [dot] com

> wrote:


>Anyone fancy tapping an as-yet badly managed/marketed area, then? It's

>odd really, considering Brighton considers itself the most 'wired' place

>in Britain.


>If that were really true, would I spend 3 and a half hours of my day

commuting?


Which brings us on to the question of location, remote working and

telecommunting. Lots of people live in Brighton and work in London or the

surrounds. How can anyone bear a 2 hour commute?


easyEverything shops might well provide adequate facilities for someone

stuck in town between meetings to catch up on some mail, etc. But why are

there no remote-working facilities in dormitory towns?


There are currently over 1,000,000 home workers and remote workers in the UK

including many in the mushrooming telesales/teleservice business. Why not in

the supposedly "revolutionary" "new media" biz? All it takes is a bit of

organising to do it well.


Advantages:


reduce cost

reduce stress

more efficient

saves travel / avoids pollution

more time for leisure

etc. etc.


Disadvantages:


1. Badly-organised operations/managers find it difficult not having people

near them that they can shove work on at zero notice when it should have

been done two weeks ago

2. It makes it difficult to show off your smart office in the City/Soho

jammed full of lots of busy people

3. It goes against the 1990s filofax-down-the-trousers culture generally

(oh, sorry, that's an advantage)


Ray Taylor +44 181 249 6313 (NB new tel No)

NMC/Adplan


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