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This echoes my current gig to a tee: worked at home for a couple of months, went stir crazy, found an office. For me, the first office space was a hipster cafe
by ENTP 10y ago
This echoes my current gig to a tee: worked at home for a couple of months, went stir crazy, found an office. For me, the first office space was a hipster cafe type place that was just too freaking noisy. I moved to a Regus office which was ok but Regus were awful so a few of us clubbed together and got a truly shared office with both closed and open spaces for different type of work. I can highly recommend this setup as some days you just need to hole yourself up in a private enclosed office to do brain work. However the open space promotes social interaction and feeds the soul.
- mgkimsal 10y agoI run a small coworking space, and we have some private spaces and some public spaces. You can be in a room with a few other folks, or you can be in a room on your own. I switch a lot, and some others do too. It's crazy to me that people think 'one size fits all', regardless of what the size is (open plan office, private space, cubes, etc). Most people need somewhat different workspaces depending on the work they're doing.
- SyneRyder 10y ago+1 to the comments about Regus. While some of the spaces are really well designed & in perfect locations, their billing systems were so broken that I got out of my contract as fast as I could. They couldn't even charge credit cards automatically each month, and they accidentally leaked their entire Australian client list in the To line of an email (then tried to fix it by using the Outlook "Recall This Message" feature). [Since then I've opted to work from cafes, shopping malls that have started encouraging laptop workers, and a 'coworking' space I found that was mostly empty.]
- ENTP 10y agoI was on that email list. I was absolutrly livid. They also double charged me $2k+ twice. Will never work there again. What's your tips on Cafe's (if you are in Sydney)?
- SyneRyder 10y agoAlas I'm in Perth, and I have terrible taste in coffee... I mostly work at Starbucks whenever I can. (Or Gloria Jeans, since we don't have Starbucks in Perth.) It's a while since I was last in Sydney. If you're ever in Singapore I can recommend the 100th Starbucks in the financial district (at The Fullerton Waterboat House). Large space with lots of windows, a great view and not very busy. Terrible WiFi though, so tether to a cheap Singaporean 15GB SIM.
- ENTP 10y agoThanks for the tips! Appreciate your time.