Index
Articles
Everything published here. The guides are maintained rather than dated, because most of these questions do not change much from year to year.
Choosing and using a space
- Coworking 101What coworking is, what you are really buying, the membership ladder, and who it genuinely suits.
- Top 10 coworking considerationsThe checks worth making before you sign, starting with acoustics and ending with the visit that tells you the truth.
- What makes a floor workZoning, circulation, density, and the unwritten geography every floor develops.
- Coworking FAQ: common questions answeredShort answers to what comes up on every tour.
Money and admin
- What coworking costsHow the tiers are priced, what moves the number, and the costs that never appear on the price list.
- Are coworking memberships tax deductible?The self-employed answer, the employee answer, and the home office complication.
- Commuting to a workspaceParking, transit, and why distance quietly decides how often you attend.
Working with other people
- Five problems distributed teams hitWhat shared space fixes for remote teams, what it does not, and how companies buy it.
- Networking without the networking eventHow useful professional contact actually happens in a shared building.
- Morning events, and why workspaces host themThe format, why it works, and why so many series quietly die.
The industry
- Why coworking spaces keep closingLong leases sold as short memberships, high break-even occupancy, and what the survivors do differently.
The office
- Hot desking, hoteling, and why your company took your deskThe jargon, the real reasons, the ratio math, and what makes unassigned seating tolerable.
- Why you cannot concentrate at the officeNoise, air, temperature, and interruptions, plus what you can actually control at a shared desk.
Buildings
- Why empty offices do not just become apartmentsFloor plates, daylight, plumbing, and money. The conversion question, answered properly.
- The building behind the workspaceDaylight, ventilation, acoustics, temperature control, and the roof above the ceiling tiles.