The Ultimate Escape

Well it’s all over for this one and it’s been a great ride. Aside from meeting some great people and getting out of Sydney for a week we’ve also had a great insight into some of the different ways people use office style technology away from a traditional office environment.
To a large degree as […]

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Well it is Saturday morning in Byron Bay and I’m sitting here with Tamara and David. Paul has already headed off with his family (he is based in Brisbane). I’m a little sad to be leaving but happy that overall this has been a positive experience.
I’d like to thank i-mate for the opportunity to travel […]

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At Readify we are very lucky to have a technical population of users who can build their own laptops, connect themselves to the corporate network over VPN and generally diagnose their own technical problems.
When I try to promote the concept of remote working people often catch me out by suggesting that not everyone can support […]

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If you walked up to your boss right now and asked if you could work from home (or from a cafe) what do you think they would say? Would it be a flat out no? Would it be a provisional yes, or are they going to be happy to get you out of the office?
Unfortunately […]

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It is now mid-day on Friday afternoon. The participants of The Ultimate Escape have been here for around five days now - so what has our experience working remotely been like? We have spent a bit of time telling everyone how scenic Byron Bay has been - but have we really gotten much work done?
Each […]

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Remote working sounds like a lot of fun, however what are some of the rules to live by when you manage to score this kind of working arrangement? It is very easy to slide into unhealthy working habits such as not giving a full days work or the complete opposite of not being able to […]

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On Wednesday afternoon we realised something, there is another group of people that use a significant amount of "working away" tools, travellers. So we set about looking at the types of travellers and the problems they face. A lot of the areas that have affected us being in unfamiliar territory are things like directions, […]

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This week has been great for us participants, we have understanding employers (or we work for ourselves) who allow us to work remotely, and we also have been given devices from i-mate with Telstra Next-G access which makes it easy for us to get connected up to the Internet and get work done while we […]

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Well, yesterday was a bit of a whirlwind. I woke up once again with a very sore throat and located a doctor in town. After a blood test, the doctor from the Bay Medical Practice, informed me that getting the first available flight home was advisable. It was Glandular Fever and it was time to […]

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Yesterday a few journalists came to meet us up here at the house. They spoke to a few of us about our experience as remote workers and how working from Byron Bay impacted us. One of the crew was down in the town earlier today and snapped this photo.

Check out the splash page in […]

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