>> Tara has published a great formula for caluculating desks per square feet: >> <http://groups.google.com/group/coworking/browse_thread/thread/3fc7f1acd053e f00/60fd6b3cf30b61fa?lnk=gst&q=formula+tara#60fd6b3cf30b61fa> http://groups.google.com/group/coworking/browse_thread/thread/3fc7f1acd053ef 00/60fd6b3cf30b61fa?lnk=gst&q=formula+tara#60fd6b3cf30b61fa
Thanks, I'll check it out. >> As far as members, I presume you're talking about the "gym membership model" effect where there are more members than desks. Exactly. >> 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. That would make perfect sense. Fast food restaurants get the same thing in their lines throughout the day, and there's a lot of study on that subject. >> -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! :) Really, I would have intuited otherwise. >> I hope this was helpful, and again...as we get our trends together we want to share them! Yes it was. I look forward to your trends. Thanks in advance. -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 4:44 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Coworking] Re: Understanding Density Tara has published a great formula for caluculating desks per square feet: http://groups.google.com/group/coworking/browse_thread/thread/3fc7f1acd053ef 00/60fd6b3cf30b61fa?lnk=gst <http://groups.google.com/group/coworking/browse_thread/thread/3fc7f1acd053e f00/60fd6b3cf30b61fa?lnk=gst&q=formula+tara#60fd6b3cf30b61fa> &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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
