Hi Geoff, Alex always has great responses. I thought I'd chime in with another perspective. We are pet-friendly in both locations. One concrete floor, one carpet. No peeing yet :-) I was worried about all of the concerns Alex outlined but when we opened our Palo Alto space, we found we really had to follow the local culture of being pet-friendly.
What I've found is that generally, people perceive this to be a huge benefit but not many actually take advantage of it. In general, people with pets (mostly dogs), know whether or not their dog can handle being in a coworking space without peeing or growling or breaking something. In Chicago, we had a very small dog that used to greet all of our members and visitors at the door and I'm pretty sure he was a major selling point. He is no longer a member and I consider him to be one of our biggest losses. He added a lot of personality and helped to trigger those serendipitous interactions with his random wanderings :-) On Wednesday, March 18, 2015 at 11:32:10 AM UTC-7, [email protected] wrote: > > Hi, > > We're opening up a coworking space in Burnaby, BC, Canada. We're talking > about whether to have the space as pet-friendly or not. I'm pro having > friendly well behaved pets in the space, but what have you guys found? > > Geoff > -- 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.
