Concept:

Cyber City
The concept is to provide a housing district that will serve as a special attraction for telecommuters, work-at-home software programmers, and other home-based workers
The typical approach to adding jobs to a local area is to (1) help current employers to hire more people or (2) to bring on new employers. There is a third way, namely to bring workers who work at home to the area without bringing their employers. A 2010 survey by SHRM, the human resources industry's largest trade group, said that providing flexible work arrangements such as telecommuting, part-time work and phased-in retirement was the best way to attract and retain the best workers. And 20 percent of companies allow workers to work full-time from home.

Potential movers to the proposed Cyber City community: --- Must be doing work that is not location dependent --- Must feel free to leave their present location --- Must be responsive to relocation incentives

Note: Relocation incentives should pay for themselves

How big should Cyber City be? Large enough to a have an economy of scale advantage and of a size sufficient to provide a genuine community of professionally similarly interested residents. The community could be scaled up as contracts are signed with new arrivals. I suggest a target size of one thousand new, single-dwelling homes. With average size per lot at 110ft. x 220ft. including streets and amenities, that would take about 560 acres of land. If that works, then scaling up from there would make sense.

The Cyber City Concept

Millions of people in the US work from their homes. Some have been enabled to do that because of the availability of the Internet and advancement and affordability of other computer and communications technology. Others, while they have added the computer and the internet to their set of work tools, hold jobs or have enterprises that traditionally have not required them to live in the same city, even the same state or region as their employer or customers. In this latter group can be found traveling salespersons, traveling consultants, even some writers and phone sales workers or contractors, etc. Together these two categories of at-home workers number in the millions in the US, and that number is growing rapidly. Excluded from this group, for the purposes of the Cyber City concept are (1) at-home workers who, while they work at home almost exclusively, must from time to time have to be within fairly close commuting distance of their employer for face to face meetings, (2) at home workers whose spouse in not an at-home worker, and (3) at home workers who are otherwise highly tied to their present location.

At home workers who are potential movers to the proposed Cyber City community: --- Must be doing work that is not location dependent --- Must feel free to leave their present location --- Must be responsive to relocation incentives Note: Relocation incentives should pay for themselves

Possible incentives that might be effective to persuade the above category of at-home workers to move to the proposed Cyber City residential district are: --- Exceptionally good and inexpensive Internet and telephone access (e.g. fiber to computer, TI, co-op sharing etc.) --- Opportunity to live in an exciting community of at-home workers --- Attractive deal on specialized at-home worker adapted, rent-to-own housing --- Other support services for at-home workers
Doc: EPIC re NED re Cyber City concept 01 Samuel A. Helm/Biz-Pro Co 765 529 0513

Concept:

Cyber City
The concept is to provide a housing district that will serve as a special attraction for telecommuters, work-at-home software programmers, and other home-based workers

Doc: EPIC re NED re Cyber City concept 01 Samuel A. Helm/Biz-Pro Co 765 529 0513