Partial answer to your question. Here's what we do for pausing membership:
" PUTTING YOUR MEMBERSHIP ON HOLD Members with a 3-month or longer membership agreement can put their membership on hold for 2 weeks per 3-month agreement (that's 1 month for a 6-month agreement and 2 months for an annual agreement). There's a 2 week minimum per break. And of course you need to let a Locus manager know ahead of time. For simplicity and accounting purposes, you'll need to keep paying your monthly invoices according to the original contract, but you'll be able to continue using Locus at the end of your membership for no additional charge for the duration of the period that you put your membership on hold." Our space is not representative in that about 70% of the members are expatriates (from another country) and so the need for extended travel is common. People use this option A LOT. Best, Will On Monday, September 30, 2013 5:11:39 AM UTC+2, Alex Linsker wrote: > > Do you get requests from members to "pause membership" at your coworking > place? Many of our members at Collective Agency travel a lot, some for > several months or more at a time. What policies do you have with members > quitting and rejoining, or pausing membership? > > Do any coworking places require a year lease, or is everywhere > month-to-month, some with two months payment required up front? > > What do you do to increase the amount of time people stay members? > Expressing appreciation to people for who/how they are, and having a vision > for the place that's something big people can be part of and contribute to > somehow, are two ways that work for us. > > I'm also interested in how much your members like variety in their life? > Ours tend to like a lot. > > And how long your average member stays a member for less than 3 months? We > get a percentage who are between jobs, or just moved to Portland and are > looking for jobs. > > And for more than 2 years? We've had 16 people stay members for the past 2 > years, out of 50 members currently. > > What are the main reasons people stop being members? Ours is members > travel to another city, and after that, the top reason is getting a job at > another company. > > Thanks, > > Alex > -- > Alex Linsker > Collective Agency's Community Organizer / Proprietor > (503) 517-6900 http://collectiveagency.co > Tax and Conversation's Statewide Community Organizer > (503) 369-9174 taxandconversation.com > (503) 369-9174 mobile (503) 517-6901 fax > 322 NW Sixth Ave, Suite 200, Portland, Oregon 97209 > -- 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.
