On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 10:26:53 +0100, "Dave Plowman (News)"
wrote:

In article ,
Andy Hall wrote:
In the case of congestion charging, which is where this started, the
real issue is outmoded business culture which insists on putting
people physically in one place and a city centre of all places to do
their work.

Hmm. Despite modern systems making communication from any distance easy,
personal contact is still an important thing in business of the type where
trust may be involved.

I completely agree. Face to face contact is very important, but it
doesn't need to be daily in many cases. I am sure that a lot of
businesses could encourage home working and save people a ton of
semi-productive time and expense.


Thinking of City of London type things.

I have difficulty in using the word "trust" in that environment, but
that's another subject.

The real
problem was forcing those workers to have to commute vast distances due to
the lack of suitable attractive housing closer by.

... or not wishing to live in city centres?



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