Working from home AND a shared office

Here at Spaceworks, we've been thinking about where people choose to work.

When someone says "I'm working from home." Do you imagine they will be having a lie in and catching up on last nights' tele? Getting to do conference calls in their pyjamas? With 15% more people going into self employment since the Credit Crunch in 2008, working from home is becoming an increasing trend.

Here at Spaceworks, we’ve met lots of people who work from home, running their own companies from the kitchen table or working as freelancers with specialist skills in their field. 

Laura Lashmar owns Spiky Communications and mixes working from home and in our shared office space. She likes the wider network of people that she gets to meet “I get space to get a second opinion, inspiration or have a laugh and as a result I find my days working in Spaceworks more productive than working from home.”

Working from home is a very flexible option, and allows you to fit work around your life rather than vice versa. But many Spaceworks members have mentioned that working from home all the time can feel isolated, and bouncing ideas around with the cat can feel less than effective…

We created Spaceworks with this in mind, we offer the flexibility of having a desk for a few hours or a few days a week, with easy-in, easy-out contracts written in plain English. You can have the flexibility of working at home and mix it with having Spaceworks colleagues, and the sociability of a shared office space, with rounds of tea and coffee (and biscuits).

If you want to see what our Spaceworks rooms are like, drop by Harland Works and have a look! Or try out our shared workspace for a half day (4 hours) for free during June 2014.