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Get 1 Million Hours of Productivity Back to Los Angeles During the Next Carmageddon with Flexible Workspace Solutions

Topic: Business OpportunitiesPublished July 20, 2012

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Imagine one of the most congested cities in the world and in that city the most congested freeway. According to officials, more than 327,000 drivers pass through one of its interchanges each day. One day last year a portion of the freeway was closed down for a weekend and the event was feared for months prior to it and when it finally happened it was called carmageddon. Now take that weekend and imagine it for multiple weekends until 2014. In a city that has one of the least effective public transport systems in the world there are no words to describe what will happen. That the works are needed or that the local Government has not given fair warning are not in dispute here, only that Los Angeles commuters live in a perpetual drivers hell. Now lets look at another statistic. There are over 1 billion mobile workers in the world and official statistics show that this is set to increase to 1.3 billion within the next 12 months. Data communications on handheld devices are now more powerful than the servers IBM had 20 years ago. Companies around the world are starting to embrace workplace efficiencies such as hoteling because of good work life balance reasons and also because it cost less than the old way. The price of gas is at an all time high and traffic has never been worse. So the question Global Workplace Advisors Your Office Agent, asked themselves was - Why are all those people still on the road and how can we help companies stop hitting their heads against the same brick wall time and again. Your Office Agent are already well known for providing workplace recovery plans via workplace giants Regus, Sungard and Agile Recovery but now this has been expanded to include workplace preparedness for a disaster we all know is coming. The idea is that by partnering with flexible workspace in the whole LA region Your Office Agent will be able to craft made to order solutions for each company whether its home technology that's needed or an office location to touchdown for a day close to their home to avoid the traffic altogether. Partner, Brian Mac Mahon said " The amazing thing is that we can provide these flexible workspace solutions for less than the employee will spend on gas to get to their normal workplace and each employee will save an average of 2 hours a day. Even if we can take 10% of those 327,000 cars off the road for one month it adds up to an additional million hours of productivity that will have been gained for the city. That's a lot of additional productivity for Californian companies, a lot of baseball games that parents can get back to and a lot less stress in general, all adding up to a very good thing. Brian is assisted by mobile working specialist MaryAnn Bozek in this call for change. rnYour Office Agent are a new breed of global workplace consultants, specializing in mobile working, home working and agile office space solutions around the world. The company looks to help companies find the virtual office solutions they need to become faster, smarter and stronger than their competitors because planning ahead with the ability to turn on a dime is what it takes to survive in business today. Their partners and agents have worked on the ground in over 55 cities providing flexible workspace solutions just like this and in every city the team shuns traditional broker practices of just finding square feet for companies and replaces it with creating purpose that is 100% aligned to the companies business plan and Carmageddon is today's purpose.

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Brian is a partner in Global Workplace Strategy consultants, Your Office Agent and his passion is to help individuals and companies find the agile workspace solutions they need to become faster, smarter, strong enough to survive in business today. http://www.yourofficeagent.com/brian-macmahon.php You can contact Brian at b.macmahon@yourofficeagent.com

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