Posts by Stuart Coats
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Bugger! I sat here for a good 5 minutes trying to think of an appropriate (or inappropriate) joke and Andrew beat me to it.
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I was astonished to look up and see a certain National Party MP scoping my junk
Maybe he was looking at the size of your.... hands.
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@3410
Your tastebuds will start to tingle when you hear his happy jingle
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PS As I don't work for this company does this count as collaboration?
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There are companies overseas that lease furnished and serviced office space on a pay-per-use basis, for the occasional important meeting or if you happen to be travelling in a city other than where you're based. Is there something like that here?
I recently went and looked at a space run by Servcorp. They have a floor in the Vodafone building in Lambton Quay and a couple in Auckland: the ASB bank building and the PWC building from memory. They do furnished offices and the like on a monthly basis (or more if you want). I'm sure that if you wanted their meeting space or somethig similar they would be able to do something for you.
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Al: Did you find a problem with clients? Did anyone not take you seriously because you were working out of your house?
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I have spent 15 years working in the arts sector, and everywhere I have gone there has been a struggle for money. For us the recession is nothing new. What is new is just how much harder it has become to gain corporate support. As such we have treid to scale back our thinking, going for more people giving less each as a way to make up the shortfall.
@Andrew - arts organisations have always been ones that work on a small committed staff doing as mny things as possible. This has meant that staffing costs are less because everyone who is there wants to be there rather than just turn up and get the paycheck. So I'm sure that you will find that having 4 people who care will get you just as far as having 6 people. The problem, and this is one that I have encountered a lot, is that the organisation then works off the goodwill of its staff through necessity. You may find that you go through staff quite quickly as they burn out. You also can then encounter a problem when you take on more staff - your existing staff can feel that the new people "don't know how hard we worked to get it this far."
Finally, a question. I seem to remember a few years ago reading that we would all soon work from our homes and that offices would become redundant as the internet improved. I'm interested to know from those of you that have moved out of offices into your own homes, or indeed those of you that have never had an office for your business, the pros and cons of your business arrangements. Do any of you have staff that are also working from their homes? My current organisation may be heading that way and I am curious to see whether it works well or not.
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I wonder if the $15 million price tag gets you the furnishings as well.
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Oh, there should also be a law against my typing.
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Speaking of moral panic, check out this house:
http://www.open2view.com.au/Property/76263?key=91c7eacbfaf7c619c5a8&search_id=957568
There should be a lwa aginst taste like that!