It would need to have super-fast broadband, a cafe/bar, hot-desk facilities and great transport links.
Instead of just a bunch of hot desks, the facility will offer equipment and tools, including recording studios, editing booths, green screens, photography equipment and textile machinery.
Simultaneously, the accessibility of integrated plant data (from process historians, maintenance systems) and records through modern desk-top facilities, together with the growing realisation that this data is an asset which can be used to provide insight into process operation, leads inexorably to the need for tools and techniques which can exploit the data in pursuit of the challenges mentioned.
In fact, the passenger experience for oil workers travelling to rigs is not unlike taking a commercial fight: there is a check-in desk, security screening facility, lounge and other familiar airport procedures.
Many old stone farmhouses around Savelletri di Fasano have been converted into small luxury resorts, and among the newest and most gleaming is Masseria Torre Maizza (39-0804-827-838; www.masseriatorremaizza.com), which has white-washed buildings, spacious rooms, a gorgeous pool with a slatted wood desk and spa facilities.
The 341 desks throughout the facility electrically raise and lower to match a person's taste for working sitting down or standing up.
Most factories that you're likely to be working with will let you have a desk in their facilities, and most will have a few decent English speakers, so don't worry so much about communicating or having a place to stay.
I remember the irony, sitting in a college class titled "Social Problems" when angry young adults stormed through the academic building overturning desks, trashing the facility and threatening those who occupied it.
It was probably just another job for them, but to Shirley Englander, a secretary who has been there for the last 42 years, it meant the end of an era for the studio that was home to such movie classics as "Gone With the Wind" and "The Wizard of Oz". "It's sad," she said, staring out the window near her desk in the facilities building, "the way the place has just been sort of carved up.
They contacted the front desk at the medical facility and got security to let them in.
