Welcome to 2017. The time when start-ups are common, about 50% of the workforce are working from home, and the traditional office looks nothing like it used to 30 years ago. Gone are the days of cubicles and private offices. These are the days of open workspaces and free snacks.
As an entrepreneur, there’s a myriad of decisions to be made. What hour will you set? Where will you work? Will you be able to employ help soon? How will you grow as a company? These are just some of the questions you probably have thought about at one time or another. Even if you’re not a total newbie to owning your own business, there are still decisions to be made.
Start-ups. Everyone wants to be a part of a start-up. Who wouldn’t want in on a fresh, new idea that promises to be a game changer for the way people live their lives. Start-ups are the future because, without start-ups, no new companies would exist.
As a small business owner, you have a lot of decisions to make. Crucial decisions that can make or break you and that shouldn’t be made in the blink of an eye. One of the most important decisions you can make is where you work.
From cramped personal offices, from living room couches and kitchen tables, from bedrooms and dingy basement desks, many remote workers are making the change to a co-working office. Why is co-working becoming such a trend? Easy: many business owners see the massive benefit to working next to other like-minded people.
You’ve started your business. You gained enough capital, you hired all the right people, and you decided on a shared office space. Congrats, some of the harder parts are behind you.
A lot of people look to millennials to determine trends in the workplace. How and where they work, what they expect from their colleagues, and how they’re changing the workplace are all examples of what the rest of us are looking at in the business world.
We’ve all heard the stories about how fun it is to work from home. You can work in your pajamas, you can set your schedule, you can meet clients at the local coffee shop. Is there a downside? Is working remotely difficult?
Owning a start-up can be a tricky adventure. There are about a million and one things to consider, and you want the very best for your business. While you’re trying to decide who to hire, what tools to use, and when you’re going to offer what, perhaps the most important thing to consider, is where will you get all this done?
Say you live in the suburbs. You decide to rent a co-working space. That much you know. You’re unsure if you should rent one close to your home, or in a larger city. How do you choose which is best?
