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PEOPLE WORKING REMOTELY will be able book office or desk space in new local hubs through a new mobile app, the Government announced today.
Minister Heather Humphreys announced €5 million in funding, through the Connected Hubs 2022, which will be used to build capacity and enhance existing remote working facilities.
The desk or work space can be booked from an app called Connected Hubs.
Humphreys said today that the number of remote working facilities on the Connected Hubs Network will exceed 200 this week. This represents over half of the 400 hubs pledged as part of the Government’s rural development policy.
Announcing the series of initiatives at the Mill Enterprise Centre in Drogheda, Louth, Humphreys said: “If Covid-19 has taught us one thing – it’s that the benefits of remote working are huge.
“Less time spent commuting. A lower carbon footprint. More time spent with family and friends. But above all – a better quality of life.
“Over the past two years, we have embarked on a mission never seen before. My Department has invested €100million in the development of remote working facilities in our towns and villages nationwide.”
As part of the plan, the Government has taken many old and derelict buildings and re-purposed them into modern facilities.
Former banks, cinemas, garda stations, convents and train stations have become local digital hubs.
Those wishing to book into hubs or to see how it works can click here.
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go on journal open up the comments on the Phil Hogan story.. . I dare you !
@Bala mc blaha: you can’t blame the man for trying to cash in, it’s par for the course for his character
@Jason Walsh: Wow I didn’t know he parred the course, probably do better now with all the time on his hands :-)
I thought the problem was that he was reported to be driving all over the country during lockdown rather than the golf outing. Either way, it’s his right to take action if he sees fit.
@The next small thing: It didn’t exactly leave him on the breadline did it, his pride was hurt but most definitely not his wallet.
Cool idea… Can’t access the site at the moment it seems…
@Darran O’Connor:
I am a big fan of this type of Idea and would even double down by renting some space (ie in car park) get a SteelTech type building if nothing is available…
There is a a lot of pluses for the Government and Society… First less traffic. better for the environment, more family time,… Part time workers can have more flexibility
Then there is the other consequences, a body of workers stay in the village all day, they need to be fed and they would probably shop more in the village than go into town… Then there is childcare as well.. This generates a micro economic lift in the village… Local pub opens for lunch, Shop expands to have fresh meat….
This all brings money from outside the village to be spent in the village…
@Cowboy Paddy: By the way I meant to reant that space of local sports club or community center… say it would be 5000 euro for the year, that would be big for village sports club…
This is all well spent money putting it in the right places to allow rural Ireland flourish..
@Cowboy Paddy: The draft legislation on working from home means an employer can simply say no and give a spurious reason. The published reasons are too broad. It looks like the government are on course to make a mess of this and kill our seriously reduce the potential of remote working for everyone.
Or just sort out rural broadband…
Its really up to the people that eventually use this type of space, to decide if its viable or a success, but on the face of it, it seems like a positive step that will give people options, reduce the need for daily commuting and create many localised business hubs, that might offer numerous new opportunities and business relationships for those using them, that otherwise might not exist, as well as the potential to breathe new life into many towns and villages across the country, that have all but died.
Are there tax implications if you have to travel between places of work like there are for the self employed?
i.e. journeys between places of work are tax deductable?
Absolutely useless. Nothing I SE Galway.
@Jane Alford: …yet. ;)
@Jane Alford: there’s 5 listed in Galway city centre and more in surrounding areas. Did you even look at the app?
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