Our "silent" room has come and go. At the begining very few people wanted to be there and the ones that had to go there because the other areas were full always complained. We run a first survey that meant the official death of the silent room, but the few people that really liked it tried to keep it alive unofficially. After a while of this we run another survey and the room is back, but with a difference : instead of being a library like silent room it is now a no calls room. People can still talk, and we have a group of very "playful" members that make sure it is not dead (the nerf rocket launchers have helped).
For us enforcement is a non issue. People behave (as in the rest of the space) and if not either other members or ourselves will talk to them to remind of the conditions, and that is more than enough. We pull each other's legs a lot, so most of this conversations are funny and light. Ramon Suarez Serendipity Accelerator http://www.betacowork.com Phone: +3227376769 Mobile: +32497556284 Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/ramonsuarez New book: http://coworkinghandbook.com On Oct 22, 2014 8:22 PM, "David Frahm" <[email protected]> wrote: > Any thoughts on taking your approach of defining a "No call zone" as > opposed to a "Designated call zone"? > > I assume if you have more people OK with calls than not, than you'd be > better of with the former, and visa-versa. > > Is that how you decided? > > > On Wednesday, October 15, 2014 1:39:36 AM UTC-5, Ramon Suarez wrote: >> >> This is not really an issue at Betacowork except in the cases of a couple >> people that have very powerful theater-grade voices. When people worry >> about being to noisy we just tell them to make a call and then just ask >> those around if it bothered (response is no). We have the advantage of >> having the space divided into 3 rooms, so there are less interruptions >> affecting the whole space. What we have also done is setup one of the rooms >> as a call free zone > > -- > Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "Coworking" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/coworking/KM02BfbpPeU/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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/d/optout.
