Thanks, Lars! I think the Times piece about Yahoo and other companies ending their telework programs is interesting and important. Certainly puts a wrench in the spokes of the easy pitch to companies that they should consider coworking in part because of the benefits of flex-time and telework programs that I thought were being overwhelmingly embraced.
Of course, we can argue that coworking overcomes the shortcomings of working from home, because the social and collaborative elements are still there. That said, I don't think that argument is entirely valid when it's being addressed to companies that have collaborative team projects. We've lost members who have moved to the office of their employer because collaborating on projects over the internet with occasional face-to-face meetings just isn't as good as working in physical proximity with your team. And I think they were making the right move. Will Of course, we can counter, "But coworking has the productivity benefits that working from On Wednesday, February 27, 2013 5:55:53 PM UTC+1, lhtorres wrote: > > The New York Times carried a recent piece about Yahoo! efforts to bring > its flextime workers back in to the office. At the same time, FastCo has a > new piece out showing that businesses are looking to coworking as a > solution to productivity and encouraging professional interaction beyond > the workplace. > > I'm curious, does anyone have data about whether coworking is good for > innovation? Theory suggests it is (create density and the opportunity for > important adjacent ideas to find each other) but I wonder whether there's > any "proof"? I think this would be good information to have. > > New York Times article describing how, why Yahoo! is reining in its > homeworkers: > > http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/26/technology/yahoo-orders-home-workers-back-to-the-office.html > > FastCompany article on coworking: > http://www.fastcompany.com/3004915/coworking-nextspace > > --- > Lars Hasselblad Torres > local64.com | create + play + share > > Snag our weekly newsletter here: http://ow.ly/gRyRo > > @local64vt | 802-595-0605 > > -- Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
