Comments on: “Weekends lose a bit of luster when you work at home.”

By: The Bootstrap Economist :: How Coworking will Challenge Service Companies to Improve their Models

Sat, 17 Nov 2007 02:02:31 +0000

[...] not always ideal because you lack interaction with your peers; as Alex succinctly states in “weekends lose a bit of luster when you work at home.“. Discussing my direction for this post between the three of us, I asked myself, how can [...]

By: Ed

Ed — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 15:58:46 +0000

Seems like we all have the same sentiment about working from home. I don't wear a watch or even know what day it is sometimes. Week ends and days of the week are all blurred together. Life working at home has no clocks.

But when I do decide to take a little time off with the family espcially going to the ocean. I make sure I a day I would least likely find the smallest crowds.

Work from home does have some advantages.

By: Di

Di — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 22:05:13 +0000

Love the post! I agree that working from home can take on a different shine but after working in a traditional office would never go back. Networking with like-minded people often helps to get the creative juices flowing again. Don’t know about the rest of you but since I work a ton of weekends I usually don’t have any time leftover to meet with new people and new ideas….??!!

How about the rest of you?

By: Independence Analyst » How Coworking will Challenge Service Companies to Improve their Models

Mon, 21 May 2007 03:51:27 +0000

By: Ryan Richards

Ryan Richards — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 09:12:10 +0000

Alex:

thanks for the comments. I’ve worked in eXtreme Programming type environments where all the developers sit around a huge table and code. I’ve also worked in more traditional atmospheres. In both it’s very motivating to me to see and hear others doing the same things.

By: Alex Hillman

Alex Hillman — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 08:59:09 +0000

@Ryan
Virtual chatter…you mean twitter, right? I kid, somewhat, but I totally understand what you mean. Sort of like running an industry back-channel via a website or IRC (or some combo of both). The application that I’m involved with building has some ideas to include a back-channel into its model, though it’s early on enough in the planning stages of development that we can be open to ideas as to how to make that feature useful (and valuable) to virtual workers. Connectedness is absolutely key, and maintaining a level of persistence to that connectivity is crucial to creating it’s value.

Cheers…keep your eyes peeled here for more.

Also..you never said where you were from that coworking didn’t exist. Why not start your own space, or work on getting some other local folks to do so?

By: Ryan Richards

Ryan Richards — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 08:53:17 +0000

Very good article! I also work from home and it does reduce the ’shine’ of weekending and evenings (when im not working that is). I have even looked in my local area for these ‘coworking’ centers of which we have zero. So I started thinking why not have a virtual collaboration center? I would pay money just to HEAR chatter from an office environment. I am a developer but im also a people-person and find many times how i miss the workspace chatter with others. I was amazed however to find that there are no virtual collab groups that exist.

By: Web Worker Daily » Blog Archive Web Worker Links for March 26th, 2007 «

Mon, 26 Mar 2007 19:10:24 +0000

[...] Gruber on Twitter. Alex Hillman, founder of Philly coworking community Independents Hall, suggests coworking as a solution: “Get a chance to turn off at the end of the day. Start appreciating your nights and weekends [...]

By: johnny

johnny — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 02:06:06 +0000

The coworking philosophy is a fantastic movement for creatives, and developers. We all have wanted to work in a place where free ideas are not shot down by corporate numbers, and bottom lines. Independents Hall looks like the answer to that.

You will see me there bro, with open mind and "little-boy" excitement!

Great post by the way!!