In 1990, I was one of two people responsible for writing the “Telecommuting Plan” at Lawrence Livermore National Lab. Little did I know then how much “telecommuting” would change my life. In telecommuting I saw the perfect solution to many issues confronting society (and my own life). Chief among them is what I always strove to achieve: A BALANCED life
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I will be spending a lot of time in the next few months evaluating remote working locations in Tracy, CA. Thought I’d add this one to the list: Our backyard paradise as a remote working location. “Retirement” is good…..I just need a bit more time to get used to it. Probably won’t take long. Here is the evaluation of this
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I owned a COWORKING location in Tracy, CA for 5 years and 7 months, finally selling it for economic reasons on Dec 31, 2014 (see my blog about the lessons I learned about coworking in a small town). One day a few years ago, some folks from Emergent Research came into the office to interview us for a research project
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I have been using the Starbucks by Raley’s for meetings since selling AltamontCowork. Since I am familiar with that location, I chose it to be the first of many in this new series researching remote work locations in Tracy, CA. Note: My original blog researching WiFi “hotspots” was way back in 2007. WiFi was new back then and you had
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On May 1, 2009 I opened the first COWORKING location in San Joaquin County and Tracy, CA. A revolutionary concept in office space I was sure everyone would instantly embrace.
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My two worlds collided this week. (Video conferencing and Coworking). I rented the “Orange” Conference room for a deposition to an attorney located in Pennsylvania (we are in Tracy, CA). AltamontCowork won the “bid” by having SCREAMING fast Internet access and having a cheap room to rent for the day. I suspect the latter was the most important….:-) I
Read moreIn 1990, I was one of two people responsible for writing the “Telecommuting Plan” at Lawrence Livermore National Lab. Little did I know then how much “telecommuting” would change my life. In “telecommuting” I saw the perfect solution to many issues confronting society (and my own life). Chief among them is what I always strove to achieve: A BALANCED life
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See ALL my articles on Telecommuting Start Your Engines–Or Not This was also published in the Tracy Press. Just coming off a wonderfully cool week (sic) in the ForCarol.com fireworks booth, my mind is still not all here, so here is quick article showing what I think is the most important saving you gain by telecommuting. TIME. When I was
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