The benefits of a Coworking or Hotdesk Office in Farnham
Nick Kent • February 28, 2020
Benefits of a Hotdesk or Coworking Office
There are multiple benefits to you and your business of using a productive Coworking or Hotdesk Venue, some are obvious, some are less obvious... find out more....
Build your Network Naturally
Coworking spaces are often better than renting private offices as they offer you with opportunities of networking, but not in an unnatural environment like so many networking events, but in a way where you work alongside similar talent, many of who have complimentary skills or trades that could benefit you or your business. After all it is our job to provide your business with a productive environment to grow and prosper in Farnham. We also work closely with LinkedIn Local Farnham, a friendly non-networking network that hosts the best talent in the town.
Benefit from Shared and Private Desks
In terms of design, coworking spaces such as ours are much more than your standard office like you might find in Surrey. There are no cubicles here. Between expansive lounges, convenient hot desks, private offices, and meeting rooms. There’s plenty of space for collaboration when you and your colleague get together. If you are looking for a dedicated office instead, we have over 50 offices of different sizes in Farnham.
Work Productively in Comfort
The Space have invested in height adjustable desks and premium chairs. Granted it is difficult to get excited about an office chair, but our chairs really are very comfortable and take our word for it, it does make a difference. Our desks on the main floor are all height adjustable which we personally love.
Break your Day with our Member Benefits
The Space members in Farnham get carefully negotiated benefits, all in our prosperous town. Why not combine the most productive day of your week with discounted gym membership, or 10% off lunch at one of the cafe's or restaurants all within a few minutes walk from our coworking venue. All good reasons to work at ours not yours.
Better than Home or the Coffee Shop
Having worked from home myself in Farnham, I know from first hand experience there are distractions, it can be lonely, your work can get in the way of other family members and there becomes no divide between work and home, which isn't a healthy work-life balance.
Home v Work
Without a commute to separate home from work there can be a lack of structure. As a result, this schedule can have you working long past the time you should: checking your emails from bed, or reading through project plans before your morning shower. Coworking spaces offer structure to your day, providing a place to arrive in the morning and leave once the work is done. Whether once a week or more often, you’ll find that this structure helps prevent the unbidden creep of work life into personal time.
Learn about our Virtual Office service in Farnham. A Farnham virtual office address and service designed for small businesses, freelancers or solopreneurs who can benefit from separating their home from work address. Having your business registered at your accountants or worse at your home is often the default position for many small businesses, freelancers or even solopreneurs. Although convenient, this has some disadvantages, and we offer Virtual Office service in addition to our coworking or workspace options here in Farnham. Postal Service (either scan, forward or collect) Corporate professional address in Farnham for your business correspondence Maintain separation of your home address and your business
Different coworking venues have different pricing models, but we like to keep our offering very simple and more importantly flexible for our coworking members. We have designed our latest venue here in Farnham to be a members only "club", to give an added sense of community between our members, all of which are local or working in the area who get to know each other, swap ideas and networks and give that sense of community. Most of our members have the facility to work from home, but prefer what we can offer them in terms of a productive environment and that separation of work from home again.
We often get asked who uses our new Coworking or Shared Office venue in Farnham, and this is a difficult question to answer as we have broad profile of users.. from commuters where working from home isn't ideal, through to productive members that can simply benefit from a change of scene, we have a wide range of professionals that are members here at The Space in Farnham. What our coworking members all share in common is the desire for an office to work in Farnham, be inspired and separate home from work again...
The Space was already designed in January to be a low density coworking or workspace in Farnham, we only have desks for up to 15 hotdesks in our centre across 2 floors in our charming centre on East Street. The historic building has vaulted ceilings, huge sash windows and oozes character right in the centre of Farnham so is already light, airy and has the feeling of space. So when Covid arrived we were lucky as we didn’t have to make many changes. What we did do was half the number of desks for our co-working members and do all the necessary sanitisation precautions that have now become the norm with Covid and the return to work.
As the lockdown eases, we have already made precautions to make our coworking venue in Farnham, The Space, covid-secure. All to allow our members to benefit from a productive place to work in Farnham: 🌱 Only taking bookings for every other desk 🌱 Sanitisation stations 🌱 Hygienic Handles on doors that can't be removed 🌱 Daily deep cleans
After 3+ weeks of working from home in and around Farnham, we are curious how the workplace will change once the brakes are lifted in Surrey and people start to return to work. Things for sure will have changed in that even the most traditional leaders and managers must have changed their view on how productive their team can be working from home. I for one have found some aspects truly challenging (the locked in a room syndrome and the lack of human intervention), but equally there are aspects that I have enjoyed (eating with the family at a reasonable hour, not commuting, walking the dog for your screen-break) and sometimes productivity has shot up (ability to really focus etc).
As well as our diverse network of professionals utilising The Space, our members benefit from a growing list of discounts from local businesses in Farnham, Surrey. Here is our starting list, and we promise you this list will grow.... thats our job...