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There’s a chain of physical fitness centers called “Bally’s Total
Fitness.” They may be found in all major metropolitan areas of the
United States. Each of them has exercise equipment, a weight
lifting room, an aerobics room, and men’s and women’s locker rooms.
Most of them also have a sauna and/or a steam bath in the men’s and
the women’s locker rooms, an indoor swimming pool, a small store, a
women’s only exercise room, etc. Some of them even have an outdoor
swimming pool in addition to the indoor one, and some have a co-ed
sauna and/or a co-ed steam room by the indoor swimming pool. By
purchasing what is called a “Premier Membership,” a member has
access to all of the Bally’s in the country (except the ones in the
San Francisco Bay area).
My idea for “Telecommuter’s Paradise” is to add the following to the Bally’s idea: men’s and women’s sleeping rooms, a laundromat, a conference room, a multi-media theater, a lunch room, a convenience store, an employee time clock, a payroll department, and last but not least, a computer room. This amazing facility would be open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Companies, the self employed, and individual employees could subscribe to the services of Telecommuter’s Paradise so that the each member could “punch in” almost anywhere in the country, and have nice facility to do their “telecommuting” type of work, such as Web development, computer programming, data entry, and accounting.
The lunch room would include a sink and a number of microwave ovens and refrigerators, and would even include lockers for storing members’ personal food items.
Each computer would have high speed Internet access, and would be completely unrestricted. Each would have at least one USB connector in the front of the computer so as to make backup, and moving files from computer to computer very easy.
Each facility would have the ability to issue the member his paycheck or simply give him a pay stub, and do a direct deposit into his bank account.
Members would be free to “punch in” and “punch out” at all hours of the day or night, so, for example, they could take advantage of the faster Internet response from 2 am to 8 am.
The sleeping room would always be kept dark, quiet, cool, and well ventilated, and would consist of a clean floor upon which members could place their own mats and sleeping bags. For security purposes, the sleeping rooms would be illuminated with infrared (invisible) light, and monitored with infrared sensitive video cameras.
Using the laundromat would cost extra, but each machine would be set up to accept credit or debit cards.
Credit or debit cards would also be accepted by the convenience store.
The multimedia theater would include cable TV, facility for playing DVD disks and video tapes, and for playing laptop computer output on the theater’s big screen and surround sound audio system.
No smoking would be allowed anywhere in the facility.
This chain of facilities for telecommuters, the self employed and for employees-on-the-move would be a great boon for both employees and employers, and could also provide facility for the self employed who don’t want to rent an office. For someone who was willing to live a rather austere life style, this facility could even eliminate the need for a house or an apartment!
Related ideas:
1. A company with branches all over the country where employees can “punch in” and “punch out” whenever they want, 24/7. Anyone who wants to work can get hired immediately with no reference check, no credit check, and can get paid daily. This could be accomplished with very little investment by subscribing to the Telecommuter’s Paradise facilities.
2. A nationwide facility for helping retired people learn to surf the Net together. Telecommuter’s Paradise could also be used for this purpose.
3. A service over the Internet similar to Ebay.com, except instead of buyers and sellers, it would have employers and employees. Prospective employers would bid on the hourly rate of prospective employees like an on-line slave auction for temporary employment services. After each period of employment was over, both the employee and the employer would be free to post positive or negative feedback on each other for all to see! The service could be divided up into local markets, so workers wouldn’t necessarily have to travel very far.
Unfortunately, slaveauction.com, laborauction.com, laborexchange.com, and lovetowork.com are already taken, but the following are still available as of August 2, 2000:
workerauction.com
workerexchange.com
havebodywilltravel.com
havetalentwilltravel.com
lovetolabor.com
borntowork.com
borntolabor.com
bestbuyworkers.com
bestbuylabor.com
allstarworkers.com
allstarlabor.com
Although they are not up yet, the fact that slaveauction.com and
laborauction.com are already taken shows that someone else must
have already thought of a similar idea. In any case, Telecommuter’s
Paradise would be great for helping to facilitate this idea as
well.
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