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It's new banking concept and partnership with Peet's Coffee. They provide a completely free coworking space for anyone.
And if you use your cap one card, you get 50% on all drinks.
Plus you get to network with other business owners.
Great working space.
Nah, I just work from home, you don't need a lot of space. The smallest room we have (about 2m x 3m), which has a desk (couple of monitors, desktop, etc), a view, a door, a small rack (nothing particularly noisy), couple of cupboards, printer, and a pull down single bed for when mother-in-law stays the night. So much more productive than if I go into an office and try to work, or try to work from a cafe or train. Abo…
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One of my parents did this for years, so going purely from experience it's a matter of good communication: When I'm in my study, I am at work. Do not go in there or disturb me unless the house is on fire. Problem solved. I don't really get why a lot of people feel this is an insurmountable obstacle. Surely being able to outline your boundaries and people keeping to them is a core component of a healthy relationship?
Yeah, from personal experience, I spent two years working remotely from home, then a year in a co-working space with colleagues. It wasn't until I then went back to remote working that my wife finally started to 'get' these boundaries - mostly when I started musing about renting a co-working space! I'm not a very assertive person. She is a very assertive person. That really doesn't help. Some people think boundaries…
This is exactly what I get if I try to work in an office.
That said, I do visit an office every few weeks to interrupt people -- it's amazing how much information you can get through occasionally doorstepping people you don't work directly with on a regular basis.
I think a meetup for remote workers once a week is probably best for me. I just haven't had the motivation to build that that :-/
Coworking spaces aren't about work. As a small business owner who uses a coworking space, my perspective is that it's about signaling that you are a real business with a business address. Working from home may work for freelancers or online only businesses, but the second you start signing contracts or having meetings, you need a professional space to be taken seriously. That said, it's incredibly hard for me to get…
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I believe the grandparent comment was in regards to people in your home treating you as if you were "at home". This means your kids/spouse would ask you to do something for them that they wouldn't do if you were "at work". I can agree with him though, that if you're working from home, you need to be able to tell people that no, you can't unload the dishwasher, you're "at work".
One of my parents did this for years, so going purely from experience it's a matter of good communication: When I'm in my study, I am at work. Do not go in there or disturb me unless the house is on fire. Problem solved. I don't really get why a lot of people feel this is an insurmountable obstacle. Surely being able to outline your boundaries and people keeping to them is a core component of a healthy relationship?
I don't really get why a lot of people
feel this is an insurmountable obstacle.
1. You start with a bright line demarcation "I work X am to Y pm in the office with no disturbances"
2. You make a change that is totally reasonable, but removes the bright line. "As long as I get my Z hours a week done, of course I can accept occasional interruptions during the day"
After all, why not help your partner with the kids, or get some exercise during the daylight? Everyone is OK with that!
3. Now nobody knows whether it's OK to interrupt you or not.
Have been in WeWork spaces and other coworking spaces.
I was searching for a new coworking space, and in the process learned that a very large library with gigabit internet existed near me. I love going to this library to work! It has cool water features that mask the noise and they even have dedicated sound proof study rooms I can rent for calls. Check out the awesome funky 70s style architecture: https://www.google.com/search?q=huntington+beach+central+lib...
Yes! There are a few others that are also good, like the one on Santa Monica. I think overall these tend to be better than co-working spaces. But at the end of the day, it boils down to accountability. I realized it is actually really hard to stay focused and motivated to meet your goals when you have so much freedom. What I mean is that by you actually paying for a co-working space, it creates accountability and the…
I learned in school that gyms sell more memberships than their facilities have space to support. People think that by buying a membership, they're locking themselves into going and working out because they're paying for it.
Sometimes, however, people conflate paying for the gym membership as actually going to the gym, and then don't go at all.
But yes, as you said: it boils down to accountability.
Really, the only drawback is that I don't have a dedicated space because all the offices are full right now. I thrive in noisy environments and many of the drawbacks (visual barriers, wantrepreneurs, slow internet) for others don't apply in my case.
Also, I helped open this space (the only one in a city of ~100,000) and have been involved in the community from the beginning.
EDIT: I've worked in a few coworking spaces around the US and these pros/cons still generally apply for me.