| Planning for Long-Term Survival: |
| 1. Each distributed office is planned for long-term survival, like a space ship on a thousand year journey. While Governments make plans for four-years, we can make investments for forty-years in the certain knowledge that any extreme Government plan will become of little consequence. |
| 2. One Level is a benefit for the whole office with easy movement of wheeled vehicles, transportation systems and robots. Many benefits have been identified where that one level is into the side of a mountain so much of the secure equipment is underground - underground buildings are less suseptible to planning regulations. Each office includes sports areas, meeting areas, sleeping areas, equipment areas, sauna, eating areas, cultivation areas, swimming pools, cooking areas, training, hot tubs and sanitation rooms with toilets and showers. POLICY: Physical security begins underground so keep on digging - digging horizontally is cheaper than digging down. |
| 3. Energy: self-sufficiency with solar powered batteries is a key requirement of the modern office. Energy costs can be reduced towards zero and could become a revenue stream. Vast arrays of cheap batteries married to a vast assy of solar panels provided free energy for ten years at a time. Air and water heat pumps with underground heating and cooling pipes are part of the energy system. Excessive insulation is part of the energy management system. Air filteration to keep out diesel polluted air is critical. POLICY: Energy is critical and can be free. |
| 4. Water: self-sufficiency rain water capture and recycling is critical to cut water and sewerage costs towards zero. Plants and shell-fish play a part in the water recycling system. POLICY: Water is critical so make sure it is recycled and very little is lost. |
| 5. Food: self-sufficiency is the final step with hydroponic food grown under sterile conditions using fish to condition the water for the plants. Every engineer needs to spend some time every day in the cultivation area. The cost of food and drink for everybody is a cost of doing business with people. POLICY: Every business should have a canteen with free food and drink for all. |
| 6. Families: live and work in the office, so everything that a family needs is part of the office. Education, health and social care are fundamental parts of the office - the business cannot thrive if people have concerns about loved ones that are elsewhere. The cost of child care is a cost of doing business with families. POLICY: Long-term committed people come in family groups. |
| 7. Waste: has been eliminated as everything is recycled and stored until it may be needed or reengineered in 10 or 20 years time. The impact on the environment can be reduced towards zero. Human waste in a digester creates methane gas for heating and fertiliser for the plants. POLICY: There is not such thing as waste, just stuff that must be recycles and stored until it is wanted again. |
| 8. Clothing: is paid for by the business as a uniform in the office is mandated and any uniform is not subject to taxes. The business choose to adopt many alternative styles of uniforms for each rank, so no two people are wearing the same thing at the same time. Clothing is printed and manufactured so it can be resold via consumer web sites as a revenue stream. POLICY: Yes all the clothing you need is paid for by the company for quality and evaluation purposes before it can be sold on web sites. |
| 9. Equipment: is bought by the business as a pool of goods for evaluation, inernal use and resale. Parts are assembled into kits and systems that have value added benefits to others who can specify and buy anything via a web service. Equipment includes office furnature such as beds and tables, seats and sports gear and a lot of very low powered devices. POLICY: Yes all the tech you need is paid for by the company for training and evaluation purposes before it can be sold on web sites. |
| 10. Money: has been eliminated within the office, but is a critical revenue stream to pay for the continued operation of bespoke application services and consumer web sites. Each person could be said to be on minimum wage for a few hours each week so total income is below some every-changing tax threshold. Some people may be classified as free-of-charge interns while learning - grants may be available. Each person enjoys free food and drinks in the office canteen, free sports and games, free uniform clothing, free education and training, free heat and light, free accommodation, free communications, free health care and anything else that may be needed. POLICY: The business shall never make a taxable profit and employees shall never earn any taxable salary or benefit. |
| 11. Voters: are hired on 100 pounds per week - about 100,000 such voters are on the books. The money is paid by way of coupons to be redeamed in the business web site - energy, food, clothing, equipment, water, waste. The voters remain on the books while they vote as guided by the business. Voters can become activists regarding any issue that the business needs to promote. The voters may loose their 100 pounds per week if things go against the best interests of the business - the deal is simple, transparent and open to those that wish to commit. Voters may be in any location that carries any influence in the world. Voters are the marketing, PR and political arm of the business. POLICY: Yes you pay many thousands of people to buy from you and to be your marketing arm with the expectation that millions more will buy. |
| 12. Business: includes the automation of products and services to the point where people are no longer cost effective against machines working 24*7. The creation of millions of unemployeed voters must be managed with a survival plan and a democratic way of getting people into power for the long-term survival of the business. Millions of voters may wish to become employees of the business and employees in the business may not wish to leave - pressure to grow and thrive. POLICY: As Facebook and Google have discovered, every business needs a political arm to survive in the long-term - we agree with everybody else. The business is not based in one country but every country like a merry-go-round. Survival means every company is replaced with others every few years - renewal to limit liability. |