1. Coworking eliminates that feeling of isolation. Sometimes it’s great being an island in your home office, but other times man/woman needs company. Isn’t having a flexible choice a liberating feeling?
2. Coworking can reduce time spent commuting, and so reduces stress levels. Why join rush hour traffic? Simply work from home until the wage slaves are in their cubicle and then head out to your cowork space.
3. When you work from home, you still have to deal with Telkom, outsourced IT guys, Internet service providers and all that tiresome stuff. Not at cowork spaces. That headache is someone else’s.
4. Researchers writing in the Harvard Business Review, found people who chose to cowork were thriving, so they set out to discover why. Many said they saw their work as meaningful in that they could “bring their whole selves to work”, and didn’t have to wear a “work persona”. Liberating!
5. They also found that working with and around people with different skill sets provided amazing opportunities for collaboration and a culture in which coworkers helped each other out.
6. Let’s face it, having top-end high-speed Internet connection is a real boost for business. No desperate pleas to service providers trying to discover why your connection is fluctuating and dropping out.
7. A study by a software company revealed that by 2020, more than 40% of the US workforce (that’s 60 million people) would be freelancers, contractors or temporary workers. And the over-65s will still be working in one way or another. Coworking is trendsetting, and helping develop local economies.