Tara has published a great formula for caluculating desks per square feet: http://groups.google.com/group/coworking/browse_thread/thread/3fc7f1acd053ef00/60fd6b3cf30b61fa?lnk=gst&q=formula+tara#60fd6b3cf30b61fa
As far as members, I presume you're talking about the "gym membership model" effect where there are more members than desks. We've been trending our numbers for a while, and hope to be publishing the findings as soon as we make some sense of them. I'm sure that they change from community to community, but some things we've noticed: -Floating desk use comes in waves. We can have one quiet week, and the next week its packed every day. -Wednesday and Friday tend to be the most populated days in general. Except for recently, when we introduced cupcake thursdays. guess what the new most popular day is! :) I hope this was helpful, and again...as we get our trends together we want to share them! -Alex -- ----- -- ----- Alex Hillman im always developing something digital: [EMAIL PROTECTED] visual: www.dangerouslyawesome.com local: www.indyhall.org On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 4:35 PM, Mike Schinkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > >> Why not look to the existing community to see what it's makeup is, and > build your model from that? > > Thanks for the reply, but I already have that info. > > What I don't have is an understanding of a workable density; IOW, how many > members can a given sqft support? For example, if we have a 4000 sqft > facility and we devote 2500 sqft to floater space how many floaters can we > generally accomdate in that 2500 sqft? > > I'm hoping to learn from what others have experienced to be workable > metrics. > > > -Mike Schinkel > President; NewClarity LLC > Organizer: Atlanta Web Entrepreneurs > http://www.linkedin.com/in/mikeschinkel > http://mikeschinkel.com <http://mikeschinkel.com/> > http://atlanta-web.org <http://atlanta-web.org/> > > > > _____ > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Alex Hillman > Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2008 4:05 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Coworking] Re: Understanding Density > > > Why not look to the existing community to see what it's makeup is, and > build > your model from that? > > -Alex > > -- > ----- > -- > ----- > Alex Hillman > im always developing something > digital: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > visual: www.dangerouslyawesome.com > local: www.indyhall.org > > > > > On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 2:49 PM, Mike Schinkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > Hi all: > > We are doing some financial planning for an Atlanta Coworking space I'm > trying to figure what kind of density we can get. > > We are looking for a warehouse-style space and we are planning to have > desks > for "floaters" (people w/access but no assign space) and "deskers" (people > w/an assigned desk.) We may also have "cubers" (people w/an assigned cube) > and even "roomers" (people w/an assigned room.) (BTW, I just made those > role > names up as I wrote this, LOL!) > > Also, our goal will be to create a community where pretty much everyone > knows and respects everyone else in the space as much as that is possible, > but we are starting with a large group of people that already know and > respect each other. And if possible we'd like to have some sort of > community > vetting process for members to avoid the freaky-sleeper types that Tara has > experienced although we might not be able to pull off a vetting process on > day one when we first need to reach profitability. > > Anyway, we are trying to figure out what kind of density we can handle with > our floaters on a per square foot basis, or maybe we should do it on a per > desk basis? Can anyone speak to this? Thanks in advance. > > -Mike Schinkel > President; NewClarity LLC > Organizer: Atlanta Web Entrepreneurs > http://www.linkedin.com/in/mikeschinkel > http://mikeschinkel.com > http://atlanta-web.org > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
