We're generally "open for business' on weekdays from 8am to 5pm, and have someone at the reception during that time. After 5, the main door can only be opened from the outside with an RFID card, which only private office users and staff have. So what happens is that anyone who wants to work evenings has to come in before 5pm, and they can stay as long as they like. We've been doing this for about 6 months now with no issues. There's CCTV in the space as an added security measure, but we've never had any reason to review any recordings.
We're closed weekends, though. On Sunday, March 22, 2009 at 8:36:26 PM UTC+1, Ted Roche wrote: > > I'm working with a couple of other folks in the early stage of setting > up a coworking space in Portsmouth, NH USA. There's three of us to > start out as primary owners, and we're likely to be on-site most, but > not all, weekdays 8 Am - 6 PM. We've heard from others that they'd be > interested in evening and weekend access, earlier mornings or late > evenings. We've got some concerns about security issues, especially > outside of normal business hours. > > While we certainly trust our primary mainstream residents, there's > always going to be new people or people less familiar to us. We do > expect the primary members to be renting deskspace and likely having > computers, monitors or other valuable equipment locked down at their > desks. > > The facilities do allow us 24-hour access to the site, currently by > key lock. We're considering combination locks or keycards, or perhaps > tiered access, where new or part-time members can only access the > facilities through a second entrance only available during regular > business hours. > > How have others dealt with people who want to use the place at odd hours? > > I'd be interested to hear how others deal with related security > issues, whether policies, locking devices or security monitoring. > > -- > Ted Roche > > -- 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.
