I volunteered in an incubator for 5 months and job creation was always on the goal list and those jobs had to pay more than $70,000 to be counted in their metrics. Lots of people live quite comfortably on far less than $70,000 a year and the median wage range in my town is $45,000 so I'm not sure where the $70K is determined??? What this metric failed to see what that the companies weren't hiring new employees--they were contracting out to 1099ers...the very contractors who set up shop in coworking spaces.
So, that all aside--we've seen ZERO "job creation" at Cohere but what we have seen is this 1 person was laid off from a company and immediately joined Cohere. She launched her online content management strategy business in 6 weeks because she had access to everyone she needed to do this at Cohere 1 person is intentionally leaving her steady paycheck job to start her own event management company and she has reserved a place at Cohere 3 months in advance b/c she has seen her friends benefit from coworking here 3 members have abandoned traditional job search in lieu of starting their own businesses--they admit that they never would have made that choice had it not been for coworking 4 employees who work remotely for Canonical (in New Zealand) cowork at Cohere to re-socialize themselves 3 members cowork only at night after they complete their day jobs at traditional companies. They are doing this to build up freelance businesses of their own 5 members have sub contracted work out to one another 8 members report making more money since joining Now THOSE are some metrics worth measuring. On Nov 2, 10:02 am, Brian Whipple <dbrianwhip...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am currently doing research on co-working because our small business > incubator will be opening a space within the next year. I am wondering > if there are any spaces that are keeping track of jobs created in > their spaces? If so, how many jobs have been created? > > The reason behind asking this information is because we would like to > have some information to present in order to get funding from the > Economic Development Center. Any information would be helpful. > > Thanks, > Brian Whipple > > Website:www.incubationworks.com > Twitter:www.twitter.com/incubationworks > Facebook:www.facebook.com/incubationworks > Email: br...@incubationworks.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To post to this group, send email to cowork...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en.
