How many are needed to make your business sustainable? How big is your overhead, and how stable is your (potential) membership? What kind of workstations do they expect? Are there alternative workspaces within the coworking space?
I wouldn't base anything on our numbers, but we're currently operating with ~33 full time members with 48 desks available, meaning that the remaining ~15 desks are shared by around 100 non-full-time members. Most of them are in the office to use a desk once or twice a month if that, while others are in 2-3 days a week. We have room for more desks, and only hit desk capacity (or close) once in a while, so our growth allows a fair amount of remaining headroom. But the bottom line is there are a LOT of very human variables, and if you're optimizing for bodies per desk, you're likely optimizing the wrong thing. :) -Alex /ah indyhall.org coworking in philadelphia On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Colo <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > I'm doing a research about coworking and I have a question for > coworking managers. > How many members do you have in a desk? For explame, If you have 10 > desks, how many members do you admit?10?20?30?40? > I think that depends on the type of contract (month, week, day, etc) > but I'd like to know an average to understand the business. > > Thanks! > Colo > > -- > 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]<coworking%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en. > > -- 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.
