Hi, gang! I'm hoping to tap into the collective intelligence to get perspective on a question we're facing. We have organized our coworking center around offering hotdesk service only. If someone wants a dedicated desk, we offer that through our larger innovation center (www.cictr.com).
However, we're finding that some software developers really want to have both a dedicated desk AND participate in the coworking center community (it's not that our innovation center has no community, but compared to a coworking center, it's "community light"). Just offering a second monitor that they can plug their laptop into doesn't seem to be enough: they want to leave a desktop computer there all the time. Our concerns are that offering a dedicated desk would have a revenue impact -- we count on being able to oversell our physical seating by at least 2X, to make the center work financially -- and we are also concerned that we would see those dedicated desks sitting empty much of the time, which has a deadening impact: someone obviously sits there, but they're not around. We also value the simplicity of the offer: one price, that's it. Has anyone else run into a similar problem with accommodating someone's need for dedicated space? Are there any substitutes you've found that have worked well? Thanks! Geoff Cambridge Coworking Center v: +1.617.758.4200 f: +1.617.401.3700 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en.
