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Why do we need a corporate headquarters at all? Why not conduct all
business over the Internet and let the (few) employees needed to run the business work from home? Most of the business functions of the organization can be subcontracted out at far less cost than we are incurring now. Everything from a receptionist to payroll to order fullfillment. Conference rooms are readily available at all hotels at a reasonable cost. Meet in the city for the people attending. Or better yet, have a Net meeting and avoid all of the travel costs. Plus the sale of the building could go a long way toward getting the SSA out of debt. Tom Seim Richland, WA |
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Tom, you make a eloquent argument against the "edifice complex" that has
plagued so many organizations. The organization is not the building nor is the building the organization. Broadband internet makes communication and collaborative tasks vastly better and cheaper that anything possible when the Hobbs site was selected. I use internet based VoIP and videoconferencing and prefer it to physical travel. However, allow me to become the "devils advocate" for a moment. There are many outsiders who will first ask, "who are you guys and what do you do?" A headquarters in a real building on a soaring site where one could point out the window to answer that question would be a real asset. Many of these visitors might be people who could help us if the headquarters were located near places they pass through anyway. I don't know exactly where that magical building site is but I note that the AOPA is in Frederick, MD on an GA airport near Washington, DC and the EAA is located on their "Aviation Center" campus in Oshkosh, WI. Putting the SSA on a year-'round world class soaring site near some international crossroads might have some advantages. Bill Daniels wrote in message oups.com... Why do we need a corporate headquarters at all? Why not conduct all business over the Internet and let the (few) employees needed to run the business work from home? Most of the business functions of the organization can be subcontracted out at far less cost than we are incurring now. Everything from a receptionist to payroll to order fullfillment. Conference rooms are readily available at all hotels at a reasonable cost. Meet in the city for the people attending. Or better yet, have a Net meeting and avoid all of the travel costs. Plus the sale of the building could go a long way toward getting the SSA out of debt. Tom Seim Richland, WA |
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You're headquarters could easily be a rent-an-office in Washington DC that
shares a conference room and receptionist with 20 other associations. Mike Schumann "Bill Daniels" bildan@comcast-dot-net wrote in message . .. Tom, you make a eloquent argument against the "edifice complex" that has plagued so many organizations. The organization is not the building nor is the building the organization. Broadband internet makes communication and collaborative tasks vastly better and cheaper that anything possible when the Hobbs site was selected. I use internet based VoIP and videoconferencing and prefer it to physical travel. However, allow me to become the "devils advocate" for a moment. There are many outsiders who will first ask, "who are you guys and what do you do?" A headquarters in a real building on a soaring site where one could point out the window to answer that question would be a real asset. Many of these visitors might be people who could help us if the headquarters were located near places they pass through anyway. I don't know exactly where that magical building site is but I note that the AOPA is in Frederick, MD on an GA airport near Washington, DC and the EAA is located on their "Aviation Center" campus in Oshkosh, WI. Putting the SSA on a year-'round world class soaring site near some international crossroads might have some advantages. Bill Daniels wrote in message oups.com... Why do we need a corporate headquarters at all? Why not conduct all business over the Internet and let the (few) employees needed to run the business work from home? Most of the business functions of the organization can be subcontracted out at far less cost than we are incurring now. Everything from a receptionist to payroll to order fullfillment. Conference rooms are readily available at all hotels at a reasonable cost. Meet in the city for the people attending. Or better yet, have a Net meeting and avoid all of the travel costs. Plus the sale of the building could go a long way toward getting the SSA out of debt. Tom Seim Richland, WA |
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![]() Bill Daniels wrote: Tom, you make a eloquent argument against the "edifice complex" that has plagued so many organizations. The organization is not the building nor is the building the organization. Broadband internet makes communication and collaborative tasks vastly better and cheaper that anything possible when the Hobbs site was selected. I use internet based VoIP and videoconferencing and prefer it to physical travel. However, allow me to become the "devils advocate" for a moment. There are many outsiders who will first ask, "who are you guys and what do you do?" A headquarters in a real building on a soaring site where one could point out the window to answer that question would be a real asset. Many of these visitors might be people who could help us if the headquarters were located near places they pass through anyway. I don't know exactly where that magical building site is but I note that the AOPA is in Frederick, MD on an GA airport near Washington, DC and the EAA is located on their "Aviation Center" campus in Oshkosh, WI. Putting the SSA on a year-'round world class soaring site near some international crossroads might have some advantages. Bill Daniels Yeah, that old "nesting instinct" rears its ugly head, pushing us into making irrational decisions. In reality, our public persona is really our web site. Have you ever been to the SSA headquarters? I haven't and don't intend to in the foreseeable future. The SSA is in dire circumstances requiring an equally dire response. I admit that I am thinking "outside of the box" here, but it is definitely worthy of consideration. Tom |
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