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.
In all of the examples I've seen, the issue with zones in either direction is
that they inherently need to be enforced...which either doesn't happen or when
it does, people end up feeling slapped on the wrist (not a great feeling for
the enforcer or the enforcee).
Zones don't actually solve
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
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
We're a relatively new coworking office and have run in to a bit of an
issue that I'm sure lots of you have had to deal with before. The whole
office is open plan, just one big room, and the majority of the time there
will be about 5-8 people in the space, sometimes there will be multiple
Hey Jensen,
Here’s the answer I wrote when somebody asked a question like this on Quora,
which was one member asking about how to deal with another member.
http://www.quora.com/Is-it-normal-to-take-a-lot-of-phonecalls-in-coworking-space/answer/Alex-Hillman
It's not a matter of
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