WelcomeWelcome Introductions

The change prerogative Awareness

Simplicity

Flexibility Transport – TeDiuM?

Corporate solutions

• So what is this thing called Telework?

• Building a programme

• Remote Teams

• Work life balance

• The Home Office

• Telecentres

Community Fringe Media

The impactsThe impacts In 2008, 400 disasters affected 200 million

people killing 16,000 and displacing c. 50 million.

Hydrometeorological change will continue to increase due to climate change

Climate-related natural disasters drove 20 million from their homes in 2008, nearly 4 times as many as were displaced by conlict – UN report (excluding earthquakes)

And let’s not think about Fires …

That sinking feelingThat sinking feeling

80% of Australians live by the sea

Over 700,000 homes already at or below sea level?

80 cm rise in sea level by 2100, according to Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

NZ Herald 4 March 2010 – Pauline Stacey carrying her bike c. 2km to keep it out of salt water – a king tide affected the cycle way for three hours every high tide. There’s a six-lane motorway through the fence on the left… (High pressure weather so no storm surge …)

A White Water WorldA White Water World

Peak Oil scenariosPeak Oil scenarios

CSIRO in Australia forecast, in July 2008, a jump to $8 a litre.

A spokesperson for Engineers for Social Responsibility said (in October 2008) that a conservative estimate of a 4% annual decline in oil supply raises the prospect of a 12% contraction in the economy over 15 years.

Work in Portland, Oregon suggests three scenarios: A. Oil drains away gradually: 50% is still available in 20

years – volatile prices and demand fluctuating with the price. B. Sudden disruption in supply that could last for months or

years, i.e. prolonged state or emergency. Society would cope but with significant disruption;

C. Impact of peak oil becomes so great that multiple global systems, financial, currency, trade all fail, Governments are forced to concentrate on basic human needs and are overwhelmed.

Portland aims to cut absolute use of all fuels by 50% within 25 years.

How will we respond?How will we respond?

Blinkers But we can’t pretend that nothing is

happening: If change within is slower than change without we have a problem

Sticking plaster Treating the symptoms with increasingly

inappropriate traditional responses

Babies and Bath water And by the time we’ve changed, the world

has changed again

Rethinking transportRethinking transport

Too much traffic

Maintaining our communities

The “tyranny of distance”

Maybe we only have one problem…

Should we rely on transport for everything?

What would a Martian think?What would a Martian think?

In a country that has been moaning about low

productivity and searching for new ways to increase it, the single most anti-productive

thing we do is to ship millions of workers back and forth

across the landscape every morning

-- Alvin Toffler

Reduced travel and emissionsReduced travel and emissions

A 10% reduction in traffic can mean a 1% growth in economic productivity – IBM

20% of commuters teleworking 2.5 days a week is a 10% reduction in the number of commuters in the traffic network

Road Transportation Emerges as Key Driver of Warming – NASA http://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/news/20100218a/

A calculationA calculation

20% of 100 staff, at home 2.5 days a week:

Saves 5000 trips (62,500 km)

Saves 10,938 litres of fuel

Eliminates 25,134 kg CO2 and 1414 kg other emissions

Saves 3000 hours

What is ‘Normal’?What is ‘Normal’?

Building roads when fuel is becoming scarcer?

Building public transport for people who’d rather not travel at all?

Building cycle ways for commuters who’ve never ridden a bike before?

We can’t solve problems with the thinking that created them – paraphrasing Einstein

What is ‘Smart’?What is ‘Smart’?

Smart business people do not try to accommodate problems

They seek to eliminate them at source, wherever possible

Smart planners should seek todo the same

Two concepts:Two concepts:

Transport is a “derived need” It is derived from the way we live and work TeDiuM: an oxymoron? As the way we work changes so too will our

need for travel and transport

And we need “structural flexibility” Is there an alternative? In urban and rural settings

Urban / suburban / peri-urban planning is critical

And so is “telework”

Remove the Need and provide Flexibility

Planning beyond TravelPlanning beyond Travel

TDM is not the answer – it is normally only supply and modal shift

BODs, RODs, and TODs are not the real goal, they assume travel

We need LODs with work, shopping, entertainment, LIFE within easy walk, or at least on-line

There are many alternatives to consider

Towards smarter ‘travel’Towards smarter ‘travel’

We could buy the flashest car

And use the latest alternative fuel

But will this really solve our problems?

A new paradigm …A new paradigm …

We need to do more to reduce the need for travel

And we need to ensure that the threats we face will not destroy our businesses and communities

In a “white water world” we must be focused and prepared Focused on the ‘need’ Prepared with flexible options

A proposalA proposal

1. Eliminate the need for travel, wherever possible

2. Provide people-power alternatives, where suitable

3. Offer public transport solutions, where appropriate

4. Encourage trip sharing, where practical

5. Build roads, as a last resort

6. Integrate and interconnect, always

And to make telework part of this:And to make telework part of this:

Capitalise on the opportunities

Make a strategic commitment

Research

Provide information…

…including a PR and marketing campaign

Use any awareness-raising tools available

Provide implementation support

Continuously monitor and fine tune

Foster and maintain political commitment

Maintain your present speedMaintain your present speed

Telework means …Telework means … Whatever you want but, at its base:

Working from a distance

“Achieving our objectives by enabling, supporting and effectively managing the performance of ‘work’ in non-traditional locations”

After all, should work be somewhere we go or something we do?

Is your organisation a smart building or a group of committed people doing things?

What it’s notWhat it’s not

Technology? Enabled not driven

Appropriate solutions

Home offices? The alternatives

Full-time? 1.67 days a week but rising

The Death of the CityThe Death of the City

Auckland Regional Council Auckland Regional Council

66.7% positive; 75% wanted information

Saving 18.25% of commuting trips

Practical trials showed 9.5% trip saving

Provide information and support implementation for employers

What happened next?

Related Auckland researchRelated Auckland research

If only 5% of Auckland’s drivers didn’t use their cars two days a week, we’d: regain up to 2.8 million hours of lost

productivity save $56.8 million in fuel and car

expenses, and stop 29.7 thousand tonnes of pollution

entering the atmosphere per annum

Wellington Regional Council Wellington Regional Council

77.2% positive; 57% wanted information

Saving 14.9% of commuting trips

Trial demonstrated 6% take-up

Provide co-ordinated PR and marketing campaign for employees

What happened next?

Waitakere City CouncilWaitakere City Council

48% of residents within a specific area thought that they could work from home

36% did already, saving 7.9% of all commuting trips

44% said resources would be a great idea and could eliminate a further 13.2% of commuting trips

What happened next?

Telework AustraliaTelework Australia

Australian Telework Advisory Committee

A national telework awareness initiative: web site, PR, speaking

Over 2000 unique visitors every week

Home Sweet OfficeHome Sweet Office

Bevis England

Telework New Zealand www.telework.co.nz