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What I find so interesting about this is that it's NOT your co-workers. Which is actually really intriguing. I wouldn't be able to participate in this right now
by coding123 5y ago
What I find so interesting about this is that it's NOT your co-workers. Which is actually really intriguing. I wouldn't be able to participate in this right now due to my living situation, but I love the idea.
One problem with trying to get co-workers to do this is that it's probably hard to find people that would want to. So instead open it up to a global pool of people and you're much more likely to easily find 9 that want to sit and work.
Long time ago I rented a co-working space for $99 / month and working amongst strangers is oddly powerfully motivating.
- dtran 5y agoWe definitely see parallels with co-working spaces. How did that co-working space work for you? Do you work out of any coffee shops or other places like that now (if that's possible given restrictions where you live)? Pre-pandemic, I would often sit at a Starbucks before going into the office to knock out one specific task since I always knew as soon as I got to the office, I'd usually have to sync up with a coworker on something. Again, I know everyone has their own preferences, but something about the energy/ambiance of a coffee shop has always helped me get focused much more than a library or completely silent corner. One issue with co-working spaces is that sometimes it's not clearly delineated when people are trying to get focused work done vs. chat, and we felt the same pain with unstructured co-working Zooms that we did at the beginning of the pandemic.