Cowork Frederick also has phone rooms, two to be exact. We don't ask folks to reserve reserve them; they are available on a first-come, first-serve basis. With only 26 members so far (we'll max out at 50 in our space at any given time), we may have a lower ratio of members to phone rooms than other spaces. We've given clear guidance that the phone rooms are for phone calls / webcasts, etc. and not to be used a private offices and we've not had any problems. As of now, we don't plan to restrict the amount of time spent in our phone rooms, but if we do find we need to, we'll probably allow a longer duration, say, 2 hours for extended webcasts or remote meetings. Also, we agree that if someone's job has them on the phone all the time, coworking is probably not a good fit and we're honest about that upfront. If only certain days of the week are heavy phone call days (Mondays and Fridays for me), staying at home on those days is best. We offer part-time memberships for those who divide their time between working at Cowork Frederick and working elsewhere.
On Monday, February 25, 2013 4:28:05 PM UTC-5, Marie wrote: > The problem is, our phone booths are not completely built out and so our > open space is the only place to take a conference call unless you want to > pay to use a room. We have had issues with customers taking advantage of > the phone booth issue and using a room anyway. Many talks and compromises > happened and we ended up with a solution: you can use one of the rooms as > long as it is not reserved up to 30 minutes for private calls until our > phone booths are finished. Still though, people take advantage and stay in > there for over an hour. Besides talking more with people I am not really > sure what we can do. There is no way I can allow them to use the room for > free that long given our current rules/pricing. Anyone had similar > experiences? > -- Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
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