[Coworking] Great Description of the Trends Driving Coworking

2017-01-06 Thread Steve King
The Back Channel article The Work From Home Dream Doesn't Work is one of the best descriptions of the drivers of coworking I've read. Everyone interested in shared workspaces should read it. -- Visit this

Re: [Coworking] Member concerns about competition!

2017-01-06 Thread Alex Hillman
Huge +1 to everything Chad-said. People are used to coming from work environments where everything is scarce. I don't fault them for expecting those defaults to carry over into the rest of the world...except they aren't defaults at all, they're cultural choices. We just choose differently, and rea

Re: [Coworking] Member concerns about competition!

2017-01-06 Thread Chad Ballantyne
Co-opetition. Embrace it. All our so-called competitive companies in our space have grown due, in part, to getting over the fear of competition and embracing the impactful strategy of co-opetition. If coworking was just about providing a desk or private office for that one company to do it’s ow

[Coworking] Member concerns about competition!

2017-01-06 Thread Fiona Frank
We've been running for 3 years as a non profit Coworking and event space in a small village in north west England. We have a shared Coworking space wjrh 9 desks, and offices, studios and workshops most of which are leased and then shared too. We have an interesting and surprisingly completely