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Antoinetta III on July 22, 2008 - 6:37pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

"At a stroke it will give us 5-10 extra years before peak oil forces hard decisions. A worthwhile win." Posted by garyp

If telecommuting could somehow, magically "at a stroke" be expanded to the suggested 40% of the labour force NOW, the above statement would likely be true. However, like most other things, I imagine that this would take from 5-10 years to scale up to this level, and I think that Peak Oil will be biting us in the Ass well before this.

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garyp on July 24, 2008 - 3:21am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Telecommuting is one of those things I think could expand rapidly, since the basics of delivering it are already around. Plus once the balance was tipped firmly in the direction of companies doing this, those individuals companies would all be working to make it happen.

1-2 years to 30% would be a rough guess.

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