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Coworking in general is a hideous working environment. The offices are fishbowls. There's no privacy. It's worse than open plan offices, because at least at the
by dkarl 3y ago
Coworking in general is a hideous working environment. The offices are fishbowls. There's no privacy. It's worse than open plan offices, because at least at the office, everybody works for the same company.
The only times I've found decent coworking spaces, they've been ad-hoc affairs to make use of an old building on cheap real estate. No software startups, nobody chasing VC money, no espresso machines, no free snacks (or maybe just a few sad granola bars for emergencies), just a solid wooden door, wifi, and natural light from a window. I don't think arrangements like that last, though.
- sidewndr46 3y agoOne of the founders I worked for mentioned that all of his businesses actually started in the corner of a real-estate office. They just rented a few desks to work from, then whenever they grew they moved up to a small lease.
- marcosdumay 3y agoThere is a cowoking place well hidden near my home. It has 3 quite passable conference rooms, 6 "working bays" where you can use with a laptop in a very uncomfortable way, and a free desk at the side of those bays. It looks like the perfect place to do a meeting and go away, and indeed it looks like people do use it that way a lot. Also, you can rent it at the moment, without any planning. I imagine it's successful. It is indeed not the kind of place you want to go to do quiet work. But spaces leading to quiet work are plentiful anyway.
- nunez 3y agoWeWork's private offices were fantastic though. I had one for about a year during COVID. It was amazing while we had it.