Newly established community platform enables flexible creation

On the community platform, we show for each community the savings potential that a community can achieve by opening and actively using a VillageOffice coworking space. Without detailed on-site analysis, this potential is of course only a rough statistical approximation. We quantify the statistical savings potential as 20% based on the following assumptions:

• According to the study The workplace of the future of Deloitte, half of all employees were already able to work from anywhere in 2016. The trend is rising.
• We assume that in the medium term these people will work 2 out of 5 days at their place of residence, provided that a suitable workplace is available for this purpose(a VillageOffice coworking space). This makes a theoretical reduction of 40% possible (40% = 2 out of 5 days).

Based on these two figures, the savings potential is 20%: 50% of employees* work location-independently, of which 40% are degree of utilization.

Switzerland has arguably one of the best statistical offices in the world. The Swiss Federal Statistical Office (SFSO) has over the Commuter Mobility has compiled a comprehensive dossier of figures. At irregular intervals, the FSO also surveys the Commuter Matrix, most recently in 2014. These statistics are a linkage of three different data sources:

1. Statistics of the population and households (STATPOP): Contains reports from the municipal population registers
2. Register of old-age and survivors' insurance (AHV register): Contains reports from the AHV compensation funds. Provides the companies in which the employed persons work.
3. Business statistics (STATENT): Provides information on the location of the companies' various workplaces (branches, subsidiaries, etc.) and the number of people working there

The FSO describes the procedure for the survey as follows:

• First, the employed persons were defined on the basis of the AHV register: Persons are considered to be employed if they have one or more jobs with a salary subject to AHV contributions (i.e. at least CHF 2,300 per job and year). The commuter matrix takes into account all persons who were employed in December 2014.
• STATPOP was then used to identify the municipalities of residence of the employed persons and STATENT to identify the companies for which they worked. If a person worked for more than one company, the employer was defined as the company from which the employed person received the highest salary.
• STATENT was then used to determine the municipalities of work of all employed persons who worked in single-firm companies and whose place of work could therefore be clearly identified. In the reference year 2014, this was the case for around half of the approximately 4 million employed persons. If the employees had a secondary residence and this was closer to the place of work than the actual municipality of residence, the secondary residence was used as the "municipality of residence.
• The employees of the multi-firm companies (2 million persons in 2014) were assigned to a specific workplace of the company they worked for by means of an optimization algorithm. For each company, the total travel time of its employees was minimized, taking into account the number of employees per workplace (known from STATENT). Since the gender of the employees was known - also at the level of workplaces - the algorithm worked gender-separated, which increased the accuracy of the allocation.

These figures are the basis for further calculations on the VillageOffice community platform.