We have members who are quite loud in our main flexible seating coworking room (roughly 13 x 35 feet with seating for 16). One member laughs so loudly it can be heard from other rooms and greets people with a loud "Hey!". Another with a loud voice strikes up a conversation with almost everyone he comes into contact with. We have tried without success to get these noisy members to quiet down, but have stopped short of asking them to leave because many members like them and engage with them on a regular basis. And they are not the only ones - just the most frequent offenders. Members have extended conversations in close proximity to others and sometimes nearly the whole room erupts in lively conversation. In so many ways, this is a good thing. But it's also not so good. The loud people are being really inconsiderate to those who are trying to work (and they are violating our "playground rules", rules everyone agreed to). Yes ... there are headphones and people use them, but some leave the room or even go home because they can't stay focused. I'm certain we've lost existing or potential members because of this. We've brought the matter up to our members and most don't want anything to change, but some really do. We think one of the problems is that we don't have a separate space where people can freely talk. They've become friends and they want to talk to each other, so they've turned our main coworking space into also their social space. We're looking for a larger space and will use these observations in choosing a new space, but a larger space isn't guaranteed. We may have to stay where we are.
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