Would you ever work out of a co-working space over your regular office or home office? Why/why not?

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Nope. Why would someone ever pay for a space to work? Home is free and office is free

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Not if I have to pay for it. Would expect an incentive if firm wants me there

Agree with the replies here. If there was one close by to me and it was free/paid for by the firm I would absolutely use it. Having small kids around the house makes it a lot harder to work from home, especially when trying to have an early morning conference call when everyone else is sleeping!

Our NY office rented a coworking space for a few months while we were expanding. I worked out of it for about 45 minutes until I gave up. The space had no idea what area we had reserved, the phones that were supposedly available didn’t work, and the WiFi barely worked. Working in our crowded/loud/mid-happy hour office was less distracting.

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