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I've read a lot about telecommuting here on HN lately. While I do this myself, I'm hoping that one day infrastucture and cost of living near the workplace will
by lazyjones 14y ago
I've read a lot about telecommuting here on HN lately. While I do this myself, I'm hoping that one day infrastucture and cost of living near the workplace will be at a point where everyone can just walk to the office (in 5-10 minutes). This is the best of all possible worlds for me: healthier, allows working from home and still dropping in at work for meetings or lunch or whatever comes up and no getting stuck in rush hour traffic (not in the car and neither in the subway/tram), no dangerous biking (in the city).
Also, Mr. Branson does not look too comfortable in his outdoor chair next to the street. ;-)
- dasmoth 14y agoDoesn't that imply living in cities? Not to everyone's taste, by any means. Also, how is this going to work out for couples/families?
- icebraining 14y agoI'm not GP, but I think it implies either living on a human settlement (not necessarily cities, they could be towns or villages) and working there, or working from one's home and/or farm, field, etc.
- corin_ 14y agoAnd suddenly changing jobs means either moving home, or limiting your search to within a very, very small radius.
- lazyjones 14y agoIt could mean unhooking your housing module (something like this: http://www.arcspace.com/features/kisho-kurokawa/nakagin-capsule-tower/ http://www.arcspace.com/features/kisho-kurokawa/nakagin-caps... but bigger) from the provided base near your workplace and transporting it to one near your new job. OTOH, in large cities, there's plenty of possible work places within e.g. 1 square Km or mile. Perhaps they should be clustered so that similar companies are close together? Plenty of room for optimization (from an utopostic viewpoint).