A cooler, eco-friendlier way to work

Scott Smith over at Changeist suggests that Fedex Kingo should think about turning their business centers into places, where mobile workers could work instead of using gas and endless hours of transportation getting into the actual corporate offices of the companies, they work for.

I think the idea is brillant. In Denmark we don’t have Fedex Kingo (not really that way anyway), but we do have a lot of villages with long commutes to the city, where this idea would be brillant. Here’s a suggestion:

When the village school closes anyway, turn it into a hub for coworking. Make it a place for the community to come in, work, engage and bring life back to the village. The investment would be rather small, as property in these places are cheap, and municipalities are dying to get rid of the buildings they don’t use anymore. And I’m sure a lot of companies would fund reasonable rents for one or two long distance workers. Plus it would make people, ehhmm, happy…

You could of course ago that some companies would be uncomfortable with having their people work alongside others from other companies. However, I do think this is a dinosaur mentality destined for rapid decline. In other words, there should be no real hindrance for bringing this idea to life.

I myself would be a happy renter in such a place.