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Wednesday, November 25, 2009
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About 90% of employees today work away from their company's headquarters, on average, and 40% work at a remote location, away from their supervisors. What technologies do you need to have in place to ensure that those employees are at their most productive? This weekly alert by Nemertes Research will explore answers to that question, covering collaboration technologies, WAN optimization strategies, network performance management and other issues vital to network managers and CIOs whose companies have branch offices and remote workers. The alert also includes the latest remote office news headlines on NetworkWorld.com.

Toni Kistner

SuiteWorks still on track

Big customer wins, new financing offset construction woes

As promised, I’ve begun checking the health of companies offering (or planning to offer) third places to work. Here’s a quick list: SuiteWorks, TechSpace, Preferred Offices, 116 West Houston, The Office, Open Studio and, of course, Gate-3 Workclub, which recently shut down, prompting my investigation.

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Toni Kistner is managing editor of Net.Worker. Contact her at tkistner@nww.com.

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SuiteWorks, the Toronto start-up building full-service corporate telework centers around Toronto and eventually in the U.S., is putting the finishing touches on its first “telework office complex,” in Barrie, Ont. When we checked in last July, SuiteWorks was breaking ground and expected to open by September 2004.

No such luck. A series of delays caused by Barrie’s construction boom cramped the project. But that didn’t keep SuiteWorks from winning another round of funding and a marquis client, IBM Canada. Existing clients include Nortel and Mailboxes Etc., with more announced soon, including a large financial institution.

“IBM was so important to us because it’s such a leader in distributed work,” says Bob Brehl, SuiteWorks’ vice president of corporate development and communications. IBM has 13 of its own mobility centers in Canada. SuiteWorks will be the first work space IBM doesn’t own that isn’t an employee’s house. “They won’t have the headaches of managing another building,” Brehl adds.

The facility is 95% finished, with SuiteWorks planning a “soft launch” in mid-May and a media event in June. Upon opening, Brehl says 120 of the 240 seats will be filled, putting the business at break-even. New funding ensures SuiteWorks will be solvent for at least 18 months.


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