The rule of thumb for me now is: when the physical space is 50% full on an ongoing basis, it is time to start looking at real estate. Because for us that has been the tipping point/warning that it is about to get a lot less flxible with sharing, and that is not really negotiable for us.
This does not always mean moving, when the amsterdam location got a little too friendly recently we expanded within the building we were already in. We do not have any spaces in the same town or city. We have one location near Schiphol Airport which is spitting distance to the location in Amsterdam but as the Real Amsterdammers *and* the people fo Rijsenhout keep telling me, outside the Ring (the perimeter highway around Amsterdam) is Not Amsterdam in terms of identity. :-) I would myself only try that under certain conditions, and thise conditions involve differentiation. Either a different coworker community or a different type of space, something like that. I woudl for example take on a new office type location in Den Bosch, because the current location is in a warehouse space and so the community is primarily retail. FO rme that would be necessary to dare it; I think I would not try to balance the same community over two spaces. I could manage two allied communities over two spaces though. Does that make sense? -- 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.
