Mrs. Pohle (seated) enjoys company of old friends Sunday Computers do. business at home LONDON; ‘Ont. (CP) — Eleanor Brownridge has transformed the den in her comfortable suburban home _Inta what could ‘be a protety#e for the office of the future.” -. “The freelance journalist and dietitian did it simply by adding a computer at-. tached to. an electronic " typewriter. On it, she types business letters, writes stories, newsletters and news _ releases’ and prepares maillng lists for the health communications consulting “At this stage: we're not looking at it aa a viable thing for a bank,” saya R. J. White, a systems division official for The Canadian Imperial Bank “ol Com: - “merce: “But speculation is ‘on people's minds. When your ‘work is inyolved with: a .terminal and therefore you | i don't need to be assembled to do: your work, the posalbility is there for you to work at home.” . Proponents.of homework.. says it will-offer workers greater flexibility and ease - Problems caused by lack of "firm in which she's a part-- ’ She-can easily prepare several drafts for - clients’ ' approval and then coniplete the final copy camera-ready to save those clients type- setting costs. . “I used to have spend hours retyping but now I can be a perfectionist | by just pushing a button... 1 ‘ can also keep at. vriting longer. Or I can do more | . drafts but not in more time.” “The computer - cost her | almost $8,000 - last November. But Brownridge says it already has paid for jtsell by enabling her to triple: her output. She > plans to put her office records Into the computer and devise a program for. . diet analysis. Her two older ‘children develop programs "2 - to do school work and play — _on it at other times. Brownridge may be a forerimner of a great - number of workers who find * their. work shifted from - - offices ta homes: ~~ ’ “Homework” or the new “cottage Industry” consists of workers doing thelr work | at home on a video display terminal: linked with their employer's central: com- . puters. This use several years away, in- 7 dustry spokesmen. say, but it is being considered. . eof. microtechnology. is still - “It may. just put the nuclear family together,"":’ says Lynn Hardman,. Ontario vice- president of the: Canadian Federation of © University Women, a group which haa ‘studied’ microtethnology. ' Hardman -cited the example of a colleague who produced a ‘newsletter on a computer on his kitcheri table. “He was home more, could: get away from the university more." - - _ But Hardman - also has reservations about homiework, as do some women’s rights advocates and unions. They say problems include isolation, non-stop electronic supervision and the dil- ficulty of ' determining fair pay. Allison! Roberts, director of the Women’s Bureau of the Ontarlo Ministry of - Labor, ‘says homework is one of those issues that makes. her. “hair stand on - “day CATER on Bn tt back ~ “Do you jose the concept of” overtime and bonus pay?” She said.she doubted it, would provide. more “flexibility. “Although working at home might be ‘good for same people it wouldn’t be for others, but - the individuals won’t have the choice — the employer will, decide who works - “where. Susan Attenborough is a - research officer with the Natlonal | Union of Provincial ‘Government Employees who wrote a al . page booklet their conference this month. “serious social im- plications,” with the “ex- treme isolation" eventually. . affecting people’s ability to interact. Attenborough questions whether workers would. be covered by labor standards acts and who: - would be responsible for imlcrotathnology- to. be Preseli Hiren peEy at She aays homework has als" monitoring the machines to see they were working property and.not emitting © too mich radiation. ” Alan: Mirabella, com- munications co-ordinator’ for the Vanier Institute of . the Family, a family research group in Ottawa, aays even though the technology may exist to allow homework, there are a number of social questins' that have to be answered. Mirabelli says. one ad- vantage of hamework is that it allows those who cannot get out of the house, sich as ‘the handicapped, to work.-”° eed a) Has We potentar,—” he said, to slop parents from: being “overtime mothers — and undertime fathers, but that’s an ideal." The workplace has replaced the old village square where everyone was known and has become one of the few places where the . individual can ‘‘eonfirm who Tam, my worth to the community," he.said. . Linda's Fashions By Linda Purschke - Ever notice how everybody everywhere is on a diet? Ever gone to a chic cocktail party and been subjected to a bombardment of assertions on the merits of the Beverley Hills" Diet, the Vegetarian Diet, the Scarsdale Diet or _ whatever? Of course the number of chic cocktail parties I attend are minimal, but should the cccasion ever arise the publishing industry, if not my bank, is happy to note [have . done my bit to get the authors of several diet books out of Cocksedge. appointed - dian 3 atin. : _ communities throughout the 'e 1 2 DIFFERENT. STYLES, AND COLOURS ey. +12,000 GARMENT LECTION 6 B.C.'s LOWEST PRICES : ’ pointinent, Cocksedge: had -perved 8 ‘acting director: © ~ general forthe’. past- 16; : months, He tirat jolned the. commission ‘in 1973 in Ot- ‘director ‘general of the ‘Canada. Employment . and. Immigration’. Commission .” for the B.C,. and Yukon tawa and came to B.C. in region. | AI a director of the “COMPLETE OUTFIT RENTALS. . In his new ‘position, " regional secretariat, He —§$96- $48 implementation and ad- director ol mm igrati ontor Stores ministration of all the the region. sea ei ong charge to rangi Se, commission’s policies and . Cocksedge ‘graduated 4616 Greig ave. Terrace, "B.C. VROIVE MANTIQUE MEN'S WEAR "234 City Cony .. Kitimat, 6.¢. vac 178 412-2399 programs and to ensure that - with honors from the the regional operations of University of Toronto in “jf. ,THEaAY ~ QU AES both employment and 1967 before joining the Kitimat, B.C. 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Ifike to read about diets, [ like to talk about them, think | about them, consider their various merits and then fling them into the handiest wastepaper basket, I've long been .. convinced reading. diet books is the nations number one’ cause of hypoglycemia. Anyons-who has ever read‘a diet - book has, after the first page listing all those wonderful . salads, been hit by a fluttering heartbeat and that slightly _Ameasy feeling only four more Mars Bars can cure. ’ Everyone knows diets; no matter how they are gussied up _tosuggest they are really a.fun-loving bunch of guys out to ‘do you a big favor, are actually seedy little characters who | do not know the Calypso call of a Crunchie bar as it begs to _be freed from the drugstore rack, Diets are not sensuous * people who understand tha whisper of pasta as it calls for . Just.a little more Parmesan. 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