Commuters in Birmingham can look forward to ditching their commute and working from local “tele-hubs,” if regional development agency Advantage West Midlands (AWM) has its way.
“As a nation we have rested on our laurels and refused to see that we need to make big changes. Some of it will hurt. But the whole work dynamic has got to change,” said Prof. Peter Braithwaite, an expert on sustainability quoted in an article on the tele-hubs in the Birmingham Post.
The article also quotes AWM’s Dr. Simon Slater: “If we can convince people’s HR departments to work more flexibly there is a huge gain in productivity and a huge reduction in carbon.”
Earlier here in the blog, we reported on similar developments. So for readers who have been with us a bit, here’s a quiz:
What do you get when you add a café to a tele-hub?
Answer: A “Coworking Center”! (If you're just joining us, you can find a good example of a coworking center in the US at http://www.officenomads.com/ . For more on coworking centers, see the “News” page there, as well as the Wikipedia entry at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coworking.)
The Birmingham Post article is at http://tinyurl.com/47tq4e .
