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Tech companies wake up to traffic nightmare
By Stanley Florek | September 5, 2007
Traffic across Lake Washington is a daily nightmare. This is why Advantive embraces alternative commute strategies like public transport, carpooling, and telecommuting. IT workers do work with their minds, and the capital they use in the form of servers, networks, and software, is portable to anywhere in the world. I have been saying for years, if Microsoft has the capability to outsource work to India, it can figure out how to support its workers in Ballard. It looks that mindset it finally reaching some in Redmond… -SF
How many people have companies like Microsoft lost over the years because of the commuting nightmare between Seattle and the Eastside? Maybe none, maybe only a few. Considering the worsening traffic situation for people who need to work on one side of the lake every day, but want to dwell on the other, life is definitely not easy.
Now it sounds like some tech companies are finally getting wiser because our local transportation officials are not.
Topics: People, Sustainability, Technology |