Comments on: Need Office Space? Try Co-Working For Free http://www.businesspundit.com/need-office-space-try-co-working-for-free/ Entrepreneurship, Startup Companies and Business Philosophy Fri, 03 Feb 2012 07:09:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mike Sullivan http://www.businesspundit.com/need-office-space-try-co-working-for-free/comment-page-1/#comment-16639 Mike Sullivan Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:45:14 +0000 http://www.businesspundit.com/?p=13461#comment-16639 As someone who works in a coworking facility, and who writes and thinks about alternative office space quite a bit (see aBetterOffice.com), I can say that it truly is a great way to work. I often get the naive comment that coworking facilities are places for people who can't afford a regular office. It makes me laugh... I just don't have any desire to work in a more traditional office again. That may change, but for now coworking is the way to go for me. The companies that are offering coworking, and those more formal alternative offerings - executive suites - are offering a lot of "free" space to people these days (see Office Suites PLUS). It's not only because their occupancy is a little low in this economic; it's to boost awareness, and what better way to get awareness than to do something like offer free space. Also, as a side note, many in the coworking "industry" prefer the non-hyphenated version of the word to differentiate it from the traditional uses of the word co-worker. As someone who works in a coworking facility, and who writes and thinks about alternative office space quite a bit (see aBetterOffice.com), I can say that it truly is a great way to work. I often get the naive comment that coworking facilities are places for people who can’t afford a regular office. It makes me laugh… I just don’t have any desire to work in a more traditional office again. That may change, but for now coworking is the way to go for me.

The companies that are offering coworking, and those more formal alternative offerings – executive suites – are offering a lot of “free” space to people these days (see Office Suites PLUS). It’s not only because their occupancy is a little low in this economic; it’s to boost awareness, and what better way to get awareness than to do something like offer free space.

Also, as a side note, many in the coworking “industry” prefer the non-hyphenated version of the word to differentiate it from the traditional uses of the word co-worker.

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