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Tangerine Solar launches new Solar Community
Monday, November 9th, 2009Advantive launched a new company called Tangerine Solar. Tangerine Solar develops community-scale solar energy systems in partnership with local citizens, advocacy groups, businesses, utilities, and government officials. There is outstanding demand for community solar energy, but virtually no providers that serve the unique needs of community-scale projects. Tangerine Solar will allow many projects on the […]
Senior Software Engineer – a great job in Socially Relevant Software.
Wednesday, October 8th, 2008Posted on behalf of a great colleague:
Senior Software Engineer – Backend Web Development
Front Seat (www.frontseat.org) is a two-year-old software company created to exploit the power of technology to positively impact civic life. Front Seat is a rare opportunity to work with a world-class software team where social benefit is the top priority. We’re looking for […]
Advantive Job: Senior Oracle Developer
Tuesday, October 30th, 2007(Seattle) Advantive is recruiting for a Senior Oracle Developer to join a development team with our client on the eastside. Work involves playing a hands-on design and development role in one or more high-powered development teams creating new systems and adding new features to existing systems. This position is PL/SQL development-centric, so we’re looking for […]
Tech companies wake up to traffic nightmare
Wednesday, September 5th, 2007Traffic 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 […]
Broadband spurs ‘techno-commuters’ rise
Sunday, September 2nd, 2007Financial Times
A burgeoning breed of ‘techno-commuters’ is using fast, newly affordable broadband connections to hold down city jobs without sacrificing rural isolation.
Homeworkers, defined as “people who work mainly in their own home, or in different places using home as a base”, made up 11 per cent of the total workforce in 2005, according to the […]
The Future of the Workplace: No Office, Headquarters in Cyberspace
Tuesday, August 28th, 2007The Future of the Workplace: No Office, Headquarters in Cyberspace
Some Companies Don’t Care Where Workers Are as Long as They Get the Job Done
By BETSY STARK
ABC NEWS Business Correspondent
Aug. 27, 2007 —
Imagine a work world with no commute, no corporate headquarters and perhaps not even an office in the physical world at all.
For Bob Flavin, […]