Re:Startups bet that lonely freelancers crave company
by brightball on Friday February 28, 2020 @10:51AM
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This was my experience at Coworking spaces. If you are more of a freelancer and need access to conferences rooms for your clients then they absolutely make sense.
If you're just working from home for another job though, there's not as much of a social aspect since everybody is just...working. I get much of the same benefit by going to work in my local library (out of the house, working around other people who are quiet).
Re:Startups bet that lonely freelancers crave company
by texasbigdata on Saturday March 07, 2020 @06:59PM
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I have a similar setup (also at common desk! heyo....although with silicon valley bank and Walmart IT housing corporate offices at CD it's perhaps less science fair-y that it used to be). I use it on the weekend and once to maybe twice a week on WFH days. It's nice to have a place to sit and work.
I head over to the co-working location for the commotion and activity honestly. Everyone is still working and so it's not like a social event but I need to be around other humans while at work from time to time.
Plus, one time I met these kids (likely right out of college) working on a IOT weather station. They had a few customers and we're working on their hardware at Common Desk. I chatted with them and gave them some biz pointers and some contacts from my network. I got a real kick out of that.