by Administrator
4. March 2010 17:51
Home workers have begun to embrace jelly... and I'm not talking about the cold, wobbly stuff!
Jelly is a new phenomenon which has been designed to take the loneliness out of working at home. At Jelly events home workers are invited to come and spend the day working in one location. This could be a coffee shop, a meeting room or someone's house.
It's the brainchild of two American students who both enjoyed working at home but also loved the brain storming, camaraderie and interaction that comes with communal working. Four years ago they decided to hold regular working events from their house and since then the events have been held in over 100 cities across the world.
The events have recently come across to the UK and have been held in locations such as Frome, Wedmore and Bath.
Who goes to Jelly events? Home workers from all industries enjoy going to Jelly events. In particular home workers from the creative industries enjoy bouncing off each other's ideas e.g. designers, developers and writers.
When is the next Jelly event? The next event is being held in Taunton today. It's running from 8.30 this morning to 5 o'clock tonight at the Genesis Centre in Somerset College. Andrew Knutt decided to organise the event after hearing about it on Twitter.
"With the last event I went to in Frome, a lot of people assumed there would be a lot of freelancers but there was a big range of people," he said. "There was a guy who ran a fostering training company for social services, a surveyor, and an operations director who runs two big ships which travel the world visiting developing countries to promote education. Most of the people there were above the age of 40."
One of the major factors which people don't like about home working is the loneliness and isolation but it now seems Jelly could be the answer to all those problems!
Events are lined up right across Manchester, London and Cardiff in the coming months. To get more information on an event near you visit www.workatjelly.com.
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