Most office work is now done at local CyberCafes . Most people look a bit confused if you ask them which company they work for. While not yet banned, organisations of more than thirty people are not common, as they provide no efficiency benefits and less job satisfaction. Liveable cities and countryside Australian cities look much the same as they did in 1996. Governments stopped building new city freeways and airports in 1998, as there was less need for travel to work and less justification for the environmental problems caused .
People walk or bicycle to their local neighbourhood cybercafe.
There has been some move back to the country. The routine invoices and paperwork which made up most paper mail in 1996, were mostly e-mail by 1998. However country people still complain telecommunications costs are higher than in the city. Most business is done on the net and so can be done wherever you are. The Federal Government's 1996 proposal to use one single supplier for Government electronic commerce was quietly abandoned within months, as hundreds of companies opened business on-line using Web standard transactions.