I think it depends on how you expect the space to function. There are a few locked-door spaces will all full-time members there with no reception in my town, and I suspect the owner's time is relatively low there. We have a bunch of part-time members, outside groups renting space, and so have decided to keep doors unlocked 9-5 with an "ambassador" at the front desk. Ambassadors are people who work one day/week in exchange for membership. Then we have a 8 hours a week back-end operations/ bookkeeper and I the owner work 5-40 hrs/ week. (we're 4,500 sf and currently have 60 members but hope to grow to 120. )
On Monday, May 18, 2015 at 6:27:40 PM UTC-4, Aaron Cruikshank wrote: > > 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] <javascript:> > 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] > <javascript:>> 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] <javascript:>. >> 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.
