I'm looking at this as more than just 24/7 access. This is going to get some attention from me to help cultivate a new "shift" of workers at IndyHall. The daytime office has it's stride, and a culture all of it's own. I think the "night shift" is going to be a whole different beast, and am totally excited to see where this takes our community!
-Alex -- ----- -- ----- Alex Hillman im always developing something digital: [email protected] helpful: www.unstick.me visual: www.dangerouslyawesome.com local: www.indyhall.org On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 6:04 PM, Heidi and Molly < [email protected]> wrote: > > Our tenants have 24/7 access to our space. We put a keypad on the > front door of the suite, and each tenants uses a numeric code they use > to get in. That way they can come and go as much as they please > without us needing to be here all the time (my business partner Heidi > and I both work part-time only), and it also makes it easy to "turn > off" someone's access when they end their contract with us. As a side > benefit, since our tenants are mostly women, they feel safe being here > at night since they are behind a locked door. > > Everyone who works here is used to turning off the lights or whatever > if they are the last one to leave, and doing the reverse in the > morning if they are the first ones in. Although we don't have a ton > of evening and weekend traffic, we do have some, and I agree it's a > total bonus on top of the "regular" business hours. > > -Molly > North Star Offices > http://northstaroffices.com > Redmond, WA > > On Jan 27, 7:39 am, Alex Hillman <[email protected]> wrote: > > We're working out a deal with some of our trusted "night owl" full time > > members to deal with closing up the space. > > > > -Alex > > > > -- > > ----- > > -- > > ----- > > Alex Hillman > > im always developing something > > digital: [email protected] > > visual:www.dangerouslyawesome.com > > local:www.indyhall.org > > > > > > > > On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 10:12 AM, BrianR <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I think this is a brilliant idea. How are you handling the details of > > > opening/closing doors, evening security, helping coworkers at night, > > > etc.? > > > -Brian > > > > > On Jan 26, 12:36 pm, Alex Hillman <[email protected]> > > > wrote: > > > > Due to popular demand, we're shifting some of our model towards > > > accomodating > > > > a night crew: > > >http://www.indyhall.org/2009/01/26/indyhall-night-shift-coming-soon/ > > > > > > Increased evening attendance, and increased number of people working > on > > > side > > > > projects + moonlighting given the weird economic situation is a GOOD > > > thing > > > > for IndyHall, and we're responding accordingly. > > > > > > We'll be sharing more as the model evolves. > > > > > > -Alex, IndyHall > > > > > > -- > > > > ----- > > > > -- > > > > ----- > > > > Alex Hillman > > > > im always developing something > > > > digital: [email protected] > > > > visual:www.dangerouslyawesome.com > > > > local:www.indyhall.org- Hide quoted text - > > > > - Show quoted text - > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
