Re: [Coworking] Owner Commitment and Hours Put In.

[Elizabeth Trice]

I think it depends on how you expect the space to function. There are a few 
locked-door spaces will all full-time members there with no reception in my 
town, and I suspect the owner's time is relatively low there. We have a 
bunch of part-time members, outside groups renting space, and so have 
decided to keep doors unlocked 9-5 with an "ambassador" at the front desk. 
Ambassadors are people who work one day/week in exchange for membership. 
Then we have a 8 hours a week back-end operations/ bookkeeper and I the 
owner work 5-40 hrs/ week. (we're 4,500 sf and currently have 60 members 
but hope to grow to 120. )

On Monday, May 18, 2015 at 6:27:40 PM UTC-4, Aaron Cruikshank wrote:
>
> Hi Karen,
>
> My advice would be that you'll need more than one person, for sure but 
> will everyone need to work full time? Not likely.
> When I was running the HiVE, I was there about 3-4 days/week and we had a 
> full-time front desk person then used contractors that we paid hourly to 
> manage after-hours events. Their time was build into the space rental.
>
> I think given what you've said, as long as there is someone there pretty 
> consistently M-F, 9-5, you should only need one body there at any given 
> time but splitting this workload between 2-3 people means that no one gets 
> stuck with it as a full-time job.
>
> - Aaron
>
> Aaron Cruikshank
> Principal, CRUIKSHANK
> phone: 778.908.4560
> e-mail: aa...@cruikshank.me 
> web: cruikshank.me 
> twitter: @cruikshank 
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> linkedin: in/cruikshank 
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 11:58 AM, Karen Ruane  > wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm Karen, and along with two other partners, I'll be opening a coworking 
>> space for creatives/artists this August in Bend, OR. While the creation of 
>> this business has been nearly a year in the making, and has become a full 
>> time pursuit, we are looking ahead to a few months after opening, once 
>> major wrinkles are ironed out. We are wondering what sort of time 
>> commitment we should expect? Assuming we will use some sort of software 
>> management system, have keycode access to our space, and be hosting the 
>> occasional after-hours event, how much time do you think we will have to 
>> put in for operations? Is it a single 40 hour per week job? Or will the 
>> three of us likely be putting in near full time hours? We are all working 
>> artists as well, so hope to find a nice balance between running this space, 
>> and our personal businesses. Pipe dream?
>>
>> Thanks so much,
>>
>> Karen
>>
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Re: [Coworking] Owner Commitment and Hours Put In.

[Aaron Cruikshank]

Hi Karen,

My advice would be that you'll need more than one person, for sure but will
everyone need to work full time? Not likely.
When I was running the HiVE, I was there about 3-4 days/week and we had a
full-time front desk person then used contractors that we paid hourly to
manage after-hours events. Their time was build into the space rental.

I think given what you've said, as long as there is someone there pretty
consistently M-F, 9-5, you should only need one body there at any given
time but splitting this workload between 2-3 people means that no one gets
stuck with it as a full-time job.

- Aaron

Aaron Cruikshank
Principal, CRUIKSHANK
phone: 778.908.4560
e-mail: aa...@cruikshank.me
web: cruikshank.me 
twitter: @cruikshank 
book a meeting: doodle.com/cruikshank 
linkedin: in/cruikshank 




On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 11:58 AM, Karen Ruane  wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm Karen, and along with two other partners, I'll be opening a coworking
> space for creatives/artists this August in Bend, OR. While the creation of
> this business has been nearly a year in the making, and has become a full
> time pursuit, we are looking ahead to a few months after opening, once
> major wrinkles are ironed out. We are wondering what sort of time
> commitment we should expect? Assuming we will use some sort of software
> management system, have keycode access to our space, and be hosting the
> occasional after-hours event, how much time do you think we will have to
> put in for operations? Is it a single 40 hour per week job? Or will the
> three of us likely be putting in near full time hours? We are all working
> artists as well, so hope to find a nice balance between running this space,
> and our personal businesses. Pipe dream?
>
> Thanks so much,
>
> Karen
>
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[Coworking] Owner Commitment and Hours Put In.

[Karen Ruane]

Hi all,

I'm Karen, and along with two other partners, I'll be opening a coworking 
space for creatives/artists this August in Bend, OR. While the creation of 
this business has been nearly a year in the making, and has become a full 
time pursuit, we are looking ahead to a few months after opening, once 
major wrinkles are ironed out. We are wondering what sort of time 
commitment we should expect? Assuming we will use some sort of software 
management system, have keycode access to our space, and be hosting the 
occasional after-hours event, how much time do you think we will have to 
put in for operations? Is it a single 40 hour per week job? Or will the 
three of us likely be putting in near full time hours? We are all working 
artists as well, so hope to find a nice balance between running this space, 
and our personal businesses. Pipe dream?

Thanks so much,

Karen

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