[Tony]

Rather than gathering in business parks, offices, call centres who would be happy to work from home, or perhaps a local 'business hub' within walking distance rather than travelling to work every day?

[Agent Orange]

Almost definitely. The amount of time and money I waste travelling into Sheffield on daily basis is beyond silly and if I could work at home or within cycling distance of my house then my life would be enriched, not only financially, but also in terms of having more free time do non work related activities.

[em2007]

i'd love a job i could easily walk to. its not as bad now i can drive but before i used to have to spend an hour on buses there and back, plus the half hour or so you have to stand around waiting for it. those 3 hours i could have used working and earning more money. especially when time is limited around school hours, those 3 hours extra a day would have been handy. if i could walk to work i would havebeen able to leave a lot later and still get to school to pick up children. even better if i could work in school! lol

[Annoni_mouse]

Without a shasow of a doubt, yes. Travelling to work is now a major expense, so any initiative that removes the need to travel would get my blessing.

[Miss_60]

I live too far from my work place to walk....I used to get a lift into work every day, but have to catch the bus now :O(

[jfish1936]

It would have been inconvenient, either to live in the hospital or to build an operating theatre at my home.



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[Tony]

Obviously there are practical exceptions

[foxforcefive]

I used to have a real Eastender's lifestyle (my Albert square consisted of School up the road, shops down the road, work 5 mins walk, local pub, down the road).

[medusa]

As a rep I used to drive 50,000 business miles a year. I would have loved an alternative to that.

[jossyboy]

i'd love to be able to walk to work, but seen as no-one sees fit to open an ikea near sheffield looks like i'm gonna have to carry on driving to leeds for the forseeable futre

[Miss_60]

Originally Posted by foxforcefive

I used to have a real Eastender's lifestyle (my Albert square consisted of School up the road, shops down the road, work 5 mins walk, local pub, down the road).

was there a Pat Butcher on your street too

[jossyboy]

Originally Posted by foxforcefive

I used to have a real Eastender's lifestyle (my Albert square consisted of School up the road, shops down the road, work 5 mins walk, local pub, down the road).

i always love the fact that soap people have to work in the same street as they live where does that actually happen in real life. Plus they have so many businesses in one place

[Miss_60]

Originally Posted by jossyboy

i always love the fact that soap people have to work in the same street as they live where does that actually happen in real life. Plus they have so many businesses in one place

and their lives are all intermingled in some way too....

[jossyboy]

Originally Posted by Miss_60

and their lives are all intermingled in some way too....

i know, imagine if soapland was like in the real world where ken from coronation street just went to the shop and bought a paper instead of going on about someone or other from 3 doors down murdering their brother or something equally ridiculous, anywayy, yes i'd like to walk to work

[Jilly69]

I have remote compuer access to my server and have a paperless office (more or less) so I don't need to go in everyday.

Well except for meetings and the like, but for general day to day work I don't need to go in.

[taxman]

I only have a 15 minute walk into work but in theory I could work from home a lot of the time. I tried it a few months ago and couldn't get motivated and kept being distracted by SF and other things.

We have since been told we are forbidden to use our own computers for work due to data security.