Resources and information:
whqt is a distributed workplace?
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POCKETS, Distributed Workplace Alternative, lnc.
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www.pocketsnet.com
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http://www.fuelgaugereport.com/
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http://www.iowaworkforce.org/
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http://www.transact.org
'Centers accommodate 100-1000
employees working for multiple
employers
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http://www.proximatecommute.com/
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http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/congestion/factoids.htm
•Typical employer has 15-100+
employees in a given work center based
on geographic hiring patterns
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http://www.greendm.org/pdfl
DickinsonGreenGroupPR080
'System of remotely supporting
employees using networks of
community based multi-location work
centers
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Benefits of a dtstributed workplace
Contributes to:
108.pdf
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http://www.birminghampost.net/news/west-midlandsnewsI2008/06/13/climate-change-plans-mean-move-tosubw-bs-for-office-workers-6523 3-21 0670 111
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http://www.advantagewm.co.uklnews-media-events/
news/2 00 8/0 8/new-l m -enterprise-centre-set- to-create-60
-jobs-in-leamington-spa.aspx
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http.Zundressqsuccess.com/research
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Environmental Sustain ability
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http://www.usgbc.orglDisplayPage.aspx?CategorylD=19
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Community Sustainability both
Societal and economic
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http://www.usgbc.org/DisplayPage.aspx?
CMSPageID= 1852
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Workforce Sustainability for
employees and employers
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Dtstnbuted WOl"kplqce
lmprovinq the Environment while
Promotinq Sustainable
Communities and wOl"kfol"ces
http://www.usgbc.org/ShowFile.aspx?
DocwnentlD=3340
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Presenters: Theresa Armstrong,
Cynthia Axne, SuAnn Donovan, Lynn
Linder, Scott Sanders, Therese
Spaulding, Julie Stundins
A work place model based on networked
wOl1kcenters located in communities
Environmental
Sustainabtltty
Environmental Benefits
• Reduces vehicle miles traveled
• Improves air quality
• Reduces transportation congestion
• Reduces dependency on fossil fuel
Example:
Creating four distributed workplace locations
Community
SustClinClbility
Societal Benefits
• With more people staying in the community
local services will stay and grow
• Community spirit has a stronger base
• Allows communities to recruit and retain
• employe-es
• Increases employees availability to families,
schools and social organizations
• Improves social and business networks in the
local area
Workforce
Sustainabtllty
Employee benefits
• Less time traveled allows additional time for
daily tasks and interaction with family
• Stress levels are significantly decreased as
work commute stress is reduced
• Increases job satisfaction
• Promotes flexible work schedules
• Raises employee morale and improves
• retention
• Promotes balanced work life initiatives
With 300 people located in each location
Could reduce vehicle miles traveled by 6,362,400
miles per year
Saves 318,120 gallons of gas a year
318,120 gallons of gas produce 8,589 tons of C02
annually
It would take 17,496 trees to offset the C02 emissions
Economic Benefits
• Reduces national dependence on foreign oil
• Decreases real estate and building costs
• Employee savings reinvested in local
• community - direct savings to employee of
$925.20 per year
- Causes a multiplier effect in local
spending on retail and services
• Non-Profit donations leveraged locally
Employer benefits
• Creates a major differentiator from other
employers
• Extends access to a wider range of potential
employees
• Improves employee retention
• Increases productivity
• Lowers technological/equipment and real
estate costs
• Creates a more manageable, responsive
organization structure
• Creates a permanent secure workspace in
local communities