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Pomona Telebusiness Workcenter

This center opened in March 1994. It contains three open-area workstations, eight private offices, a conference room, a training room, a reception area, and a kitchen in its 3,200 square feet of space. Each workstation is equipped with a computer (ten Hewlett Packard 486 PCs and one Macintosh Quadra 650) that can access two laser printers and a wide-carriage dot matrix printer. The center also offers use of PictureTel 1000 and PictureTel S100 videoconference systems. The site is easily accessible from the freeway and is within walking distance of a Metrolink stop.

Marketing activities include mailing letters to Chief Executive Officers and Employee Transportation Coordinators on a list obtained from the Air Quality Management District, mailing a one-page newsletter to businesses in Pomona informing them of the telecenters conference room and videoconference equipment, distributing flyers at transit stores and day care centers, inserting brochures about the center with Pomona residents' water bills, and hanging posters printed by Pacific Bell in bus shelters in Pomona and the communities of other members of the Inland Empire Telecommuting Partnership. Past promotions have included advertising in the local newspaper and on cable television.

The primary external funding source continues to be the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LACMTA). Telecommuters pay $125 per month to rent one of the workstations or $350 per month to rent an office full time.

This center currently has eleven telecommuters from seven different employers. An average of two to three people per day use the facility.

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