Hi Karen, My advice would be that you'll need more than one person, for sure but will everyone need to work full time? Not likely. When I was running the HiVE, I was there about 3-4 days/week and we had a full-time front desk person then used contractors that we paid hourly to manage after-hours events. Their time was build into the space rental.
I think given what you've said, as long as there is someone there pretty consistently M-F, 9-5, you should only need one body there at any given time but splitting this workload between 2-3 people means that no one gets stuck with it as a full-time job. - Aaron Aaron Cruikshank Principal, CRUIKSHANK phone: 778.908.4560 e-mail: [email protected] web: cruikshank.me <http://www.cruikshank.me> twitter: @cruikshank <https://twitter.com/cruikshank> book a meeting: doodle.com/cruikshank <http://www.doodle.com/cruikshank> linkedin: in/cruikshank <http://www.linkedin.com/in/cruikshank> On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 11:58 AM, Karen Ruane <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm Karen, and along with two other partners, I'll be opening a coworking > space for creatives/artists this August in Bend, OR. While the creation of > this business has been nearly a year in the making, and has become a full > time pursuit, we are looking ahead to a few months after opening, once > major wrinkles are ironed out. We are wondering what sort of time > commitment we should expect? Assuming we will use some sort of software > management system, have keycode access to our space, and be hosting the > occasional after-hours event, how much time do you think we will have to > put in for operations? Is it a single 40 hour per week job? Or will the > three of us likely be putting in near full time hours? We are all working > artists as well, so hope to find a nice balance between running this space, > and our personal businesses. Pipe dream? > > Thanks so much, > > Karen > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
