Hi Tom, I agree with what has been written before (pro & cons). Not much to add, I just give you our practical experience on that matter.
At Mutinerie (Paris) we have chosen to go flex. We can host around 70 coworkers and we originally had 16 permanent desks. After two months of operation, we just decided to change one of the two residents areas to a meeting room. So now we have only 8 permanent desks out of 70 desks in total. We do not suffer from that in term of anchoring the community as we still have a bunch of people coming very often on the flex desks, they already are the heart of Mutinerie. Our internal pro social network (Yammer) is also a good way for people to keep track with the community where they are not here at Mutinerie. Our permanent desks has not been very successful as it is located in a less sexy (less natural light, less funky sets) place than the flex (we had to cope with the structure of the building). We also made this choice because we lacked a quiet isolated meeting room (we have one very dynamic stand up brainstorming room and one funny underground forum). We think that the new meeting room makes sense for half days or entire days for scattered team to gather punctually (it brings potential coworkers). We felt a strong demand on that side. For your info, here is the structure of our memberships: - 5 Résidents - 10 Illimités (full time but flex) - 17 Flex (10d/mth) - 26 Light (4d/mth) - 17 Basic (1d/mth) Antoine -- 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.
