We went through something very similar to Ramon's example. We had a "silent room" at the very start. It was one of the nicer rooms in the space but was almost always empty, but I left it that way because we had no shortage of available space and I thought it was nice to have the option. Eventually a group of 4 or so people started working there on a regular basis. They approached me and said, "Hey Will, we all really like working in that room. We're the only people who work there. Does it have to be a silent room?" That was the end of the silent room, and the room popularity jumped. :) We kept it and still have it as a "quieter room" and "optional silent room." It's up to a person in the room to ask if they need library silence. And if someone wants to have a short call or a short conversation, they should just ask the other people in the room if it's okay. They know each other. It works well.
Will On Thursday, October 23, 2014 5:11:21 AM UTC+2, Ramon Suarez wrote: > > Our "silent" room has come and go. At the begining very few people wanted > to be there and the ones that had to go there because the other areas were > full always complained. We run a first survey that meant the official death > of the silent room, but the few people that really liked it tried to keep > it alive unofficially. After a while of this we run another survey and the > room is back, but with a difference : instead of being a library like > silent room it is now a no calls room. People can still talk, and we have > a group of very "playful" members that make sure it is not dead (the nerf > rocket launchers have helped). > > For us enforcement is a non issue. People behave (as in the rest of the > space) and if not either other members or ourselves will talk to them to > remind of the conditions, and that is more than enough. We pull each > other's legs a lot, so most of this conversations are funny and light. > > Ramon Suarez > Serendipity Accelerator > http://www.betacowork.com > Phone: +3227376769 > Mobile: +32497556284 > Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/ramonsuarez > New book: http://coworkinghandbook.com > > On Oct 22, 2014 8:22 PM, "David Frahm" <da...@thefrahms.com <javascript:>> > wrote: > >> Any thoughts on taking your approach of defining a "No call zone" as >> opposed to a "Designated call zone"? >> >> I assume if you have more people OK with calls than not, than you'd be >> better of with the former, and visa-versa. >> >> Is that how you decided? >> >> >> On Wednesday, October 15, 2014 1:39:36 AM UTC-5, Ramon Suarez wrote: >>> >>> This is not really an issue at Betacowork except in the cases of a >>> couple people that have very powerful theater-grade voices. When people >>> worry about being to noisy we just tell them to make a call and then just >>> ask those around if it bothered (response is no). We have the advantage of >>> having the space divided into 3 rooms, so there are less interruptions >>> affecting the whole space. What we have also done is setup one of the rooms >>> as a call free zone >> >> -- >> Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >> Google Groups "Coworking" group. >> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/coworking/KM02BfbpPeU/unsubscribe. >> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >> coworking+...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- 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/d/optout.
