Hi Angel,
Here's a link to a nice fact sheet with references to other empirical studies on the effects of flextime (including spending part of your worktime working outside the office): http://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1012&context=legal. Here are some more reader friendly articles, still with some references to more empirical/data-based articles (all of these tend to be about the benefits of letting people work part-time from home, but most of the virtues carry over to coworking, and but some of the shortcomings they point out are directly addressed by coworking spaces): 1) The rise of home working: http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2010/aug/03/rise-working-from-home 2) Here's also a good very positive piece on the effects of letting people work part-time from home:Does a Flex Time Policy Result in Fewer Employee Absences? (http://www.brighthub.com/office/ entrepreneurs/articles/75522.aspx) 3) Telecommuting Program — Is “Flexplace” Suited to Your Organization? (http://www.dau.mil/pubscats/PubsCats/PM/articles01/washj-f.pdf) Below are more scientific/research-based articles. There seem to be two separate lines of research: 1) how does it affect employee satisfaction/well-being: results are overwhelmingly positive 2) how does it affect employee productivity: results there seem to be less clear cut but still most of the research supports flextime as a positive. Here are some examples (but you can search scholar.google.com for flextime or flexplace for more examples): http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/256172?uid=3737856&uid=2&uid=4&sid=47698848534487 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/(SICI)1099-1379(199707)18:4%3C377::AID-JOB807%3E3.0.CO;2-1/abstract http://www.mendeley.com/research/effects-flexible-work-arrangements-stressors-burnout-behavioral-job/ Will On Apr 6, 12:45 am, Angel Kwiatkowski <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone! I'm resurfacing after baby and a new market has opened up > for Cohere and I wanted to see if y'all have already collected > something... > > A small business asked me for info on how coworking would benefit > their employees. They'd like their employees to be able to cowork one > day/week and the biz would pay for the memberships. Do any of you have > a specific FAQ or data that you use to help businesses make the > decision to allow their employees to cowork? -- 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.
