I thiought this was interesting: "Of all the places polled, it seemed on average that most coworking spaces hovered around 50% capacity. While no one wants to stuff their space so full of people that no one can move, this does mean that coworking spaces have room to grow. Studies in the past have suggested that demand for a seat in a coworking space outpaces the amount available, but of the 200 places polled, almost none reported that they were completely full."
I have never been completely full in the sense this article seems to mean; at the point that we are at 50% consistently, I treat it as a call to start exploring the possibility of a bigger location or in some way to change the structure of the use of the space. You need 50% to be free to deal with the unexpected, or so I have found. We were right at 50% earlier this year, when one of the webshop/retail coworkers had a massive growth spurt. Ultimately the went and got their own bricks and mortar shop in town, they had outgrown us. I would like to be able to offer a real cradle to grave coworking option, but none of my cuirrent spaces are big enough for that. Some day. But anyway, the idea is not to pack 'em in like sardines. My house is also used at less than 50% capacity most of the time, that's not unusual either. :-) On Saturday, November 22, 2014 12:49:43 AM UTC+1, Steve King wrote: > > Share Your Office <http://www.shareyouroffice.com/>recently released the > results of a survey of US coworking spaces > <http://www.shareyouroffice.com/blog-syo/us-coworking-survey/>. I had a > chance to interview Connor Provines from Share Your Office today and came > away very impressed by this work. It has lots of interesting data and is > well worth reviewing by anyone in the coworking industry. > > > -- 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.
