Entertainment at ClientCo

[mudskipper]

They are building the most massive carpark in the world at the station next to clientCo. Double storey and goes on further than the eye can see. Feck knows how they're going to fill it.

[Mich the Tester]

It's part of the idiot planning rules and developers who know that car parking spaces generate far less money for them than an extra bit of building.

In the 1990s and early 2000s in Holland there were subsidies available for building offices on the condition that there were not enough parking spaces for the offices. I think the rule was 1 parking space for 3 workplaces. I tulip you not. This was intended to reduce the country's CO2 emissions by encouraging people to use buses, bicycles or carpooling. The result was similar to your situation, with all sorts of double parking, treble parking, parking on grass verges and lots of people late for work. Then the BBBU (big banking bugger up) came along, demand for office space crashed, and now with a recovery companies are only interested in offices which do have sufficient parking spaces, meaning that offices without enough spaces have remained empty for years while those with enough parking are in demand. The rent on offices without enough parking spaces is still the same as those with parking spaces because if the owners, usually pension funds and investment funds, lower the rent, they'll have to lower the book value, which would bankrupt them. Hence, they remain empty; thousands of them.

There is no indication that less people use the car, except that more people are unemployed and so not cluttering up the roads.

It's genius.

[Ticktock]

Back in permie-land during the 2000s in Bracknell we had massive carparking issues, on out of town sites. Management told us that it was because the council would only allow 1 parking space per 3 or 4 four employees.

It may or may not have been true, but it's strange that other companies in the area were building massive car parks with their offices, and when we moved to a newly built HQ just around the corner it also had a massive car park, larger than needed and often half empty.

[vetran]

They are building the most massive carpark in the world at the station next to clientCo. Double storey and goes on further than the eye can see. Feck knows how they're going to fill it.

lots of yellow lines. Seemples

[Mich the Tester]

Back in permie-land during the 2000s in Bracknell we had massive carparking issues, on out of town sites. Management told us that it was because the council would only allow 1 parking space per 3 or 4 four employees.

Another example of how government doesn't understand modern working. Lots of people work at the office one day, at home the next, visit a client another day and then work at another location the next. It's in the nature of a largely services based economy, and even in manufacturing you see more of this as production is spread around multiple sites. Local and national government workers who turn up at the same office every day just don't seem to get it. Add in IR35 in Britain, the notorious VAR system in Holland and I just see more evidence that those who govern us are so far behind the curve they can't catch up.

[suityou01]

I snooze on the train to get to work.

HTH

[TheFaQQer]

When I worked at a colourful mobile telephone company, they used to give a bonus or salary increase / perk to those who were based at the city centre office and didn't park there.

So they all parked at the other office and got the free bus in.

Which meant that everyone who worked at the other site (and who didn't get the offer of a bonus for not driving) had to fight to get a space every day.

By the time I would rock up on a Monday mid-morning, there was no space at all, so I'd block someone in and leave a note to call me if they needed to get out. Which then at least meant I'd get a space at lunch time

The rest of the week I'd park at the hotel and walk into the office instead (300 yards or so).

[eek]

Just had discussion stating that contractors shouldn't have parking rights.

The reply that we only have to give 5 days notice shut up panic management quickly.

[darmstadt]

In the 1990s and early 2000s in Holland there were subsidies available for building offices on the condition that there were not enough parking spaces for the offices. I think the rule was 1 parking space for 3 workplaces. I tulip you not. This was intended to reduce the country's CO2 emissions by encouraging people to use buses, bicycles or carpooling. The result was similar to your situation, with all sorts of double parking, treble parking, parking on grass verges and lots of people late for work. Then the BBBU (big banking bugger up) came along, demand for office space crashed, and now with a recovery companies are only interested in offices which do have sufficient parking spaces, meaning that offices without enough spaces have remained empty for years while those with enough parking are in demand. The rent on offices without enough parking spaces is still the same as those with parking spaces because if the owners, usually pension funds and investment funds, lower the rent, they'll have to lower the book value, which would bankrupt them. Hence, they remain empty; thousands of them.

There is no indication that less people use the car, except that more people are unemployed and so not cluttering up the roads.

It's genius.

I can't find the reports or news articles at the moment but that has also occurred in the UK...

[NickFitz]

Are you guys at Cambridge?

The places I've worked at on Cambridge Science Park over the last few years always had loads of car parking available, but frenzied competition for space in the bike racks