Ways to build your business with a vibrant coworking community

At the heart of any coworking space is its community. At the staggering rate at which this sector is growing, sometimes this very essence of creating a community is lost. It is true that for any startup or independent contractor to function, the physical space and the other operational benefits plays a very important role. Today, there are numerous spaces offering posh working environment to its coworkers. However, the idea of coworking embodies and encompasses much more than that. In fact, it has very little to do with the physical space and more to do with a collaborative vibrant community.

So, even though you scout for a trendy work space, if the community building initiative is not there, you will likely suffer. That is why, at Bangalore Coworking Hub, we pay much emphasis on inter-team interaction, team building and community building initiatives. This ensures that connections and collaborations are built more organically. This, in turn, facilitates mutual support activities, business references and inter-team work collaborations.

Some activities, which can assist you to create a vibrant coworking community, are:

 Volunteering activities: By partnering with volunteering groups on common interests and activities, community members can break the ice and facilitate interaction.

Skill sharing sessions: Once a week, shared office spaces like Bangalore Coworking Hub organizes valuable skill sharing sessions. Community members provide details about the kind of skills and products that they have to the other members. This, in turn, can help members to partner together to work on bigger projects.

Host Meetups: Perhaps one of the most interesting way to facilitate community building is by organizing meetups. Whether to educate about what they are working on or to narrate their success stories, with such activities members can strengthen their network and take their business to the next level.

How Coworking can change the next-gen fintech startup scene

The way we work in the current professional scene has change dramatically over the years. Just 5 years back, traditional working environment was the only way to thrive in the industry. This has changed completely as more and more coworking communities started developing and branching out at a pace.

Today, we can see more and more startups and entrepreneurs from different sectors of the industry coming together for sustained and rapid growth.

It is not uncommon for corporates to join this movement as they are starting to see the value of being part of such a collaborative community.

One industry sector that can particularly benefit and gain traction from this movement is fintech. Entrepreneurs and independent contractors working in this sector can not only collaborate through a common coworking space but can also get access to mentors, investors and customers.

Coworking spaces like the Bangalore Coworking Hub often team with traditional banks and financial institutions to help the fintech sector reach its full potential. It can be fund raising assistance and advisory services targeted at assisting them to create and commercialize fintech business concepts. Additionally, by collaborating with banks, these startups will be able to foster innovation through partnerships.

This provides a great platform for startups who are working towards innovation and disruption in the finance and insurance sector. In addition, such communities often host fintech hackathons or hackerspaces where developers get together to design, innovate and collaborate on IT projects.

Cool networking event ideas to host in coworking spaces

In the current freelancing and startup ecosystem, networking has become a very crucial aspect of business. Much focus is being given to creating relationships rather than simply creating business contacts. That is why startup events, conferences and meetups have become vital to establishing vital business relationships. From marketing your products to branding and funding, the right networking strategies can go a long way in giving direction to your startup.

To help you manage costs, you can use your own coworking space to drive great networking ideas. Shared office spaces like the BangaloreCoworking Hub can be used to host different forms of networking events. From connecting with industry peers to influencers, mentors and VCs, you can build the right relationships to spread the word and support your success.

Some cool ideas to host in your coworking office are:

·       Set up demo sessions to get unbiased feedback from the rest of the community members. This will also help you identify gaps and prepare ahead of your launch.

·       You can schedule weekend happy hours and use the time to not only relax but also get to know your community members. As was mentioned before, if is always about building relationships than creating contacts.

·       You can open your door once or twice a month to meetups (tech meetups, cultural meetups etc) and share your ideas. It is also a great platform for cross learning and giving new direction to your business.

·       You can also organize an awesome hackathon in your space and learn more about the latest updates in the industry.

·       Coworking spaces are also a great platform to host 3-minute pitch sessions once a month wherein you can invite industry leaders and VCs to share the platform.

For more details and tips on creating interesting events in your coworking space, write to us and share your ideas.

Corporate Coworking as frugal investment for your business

According to a recent report by property consultant JLL India, corporates can save up to 20-25% of their real estate costs by collaborating with a coworking space. Some of the obvious benefits are low investment, no long-term leases and no fixed capital investment. What is more attractive about being part of such a coworking community is that there is scope to interact and collaborate with professionals working with other agencies and companies.

Coworking offices were initially established to facilitate the startup community of the country. However, millennial professionals and corporates nowadays are increasingly getting attracted to this working module. The idea of working in a collaborative module is very high as there is immense scope of learning, interaction and collaboration.

Read on to find how shared office spaces like the Bangalore Coworking Hub can facilitate corporates:

1) Promote progressive culture - In current times, it is well known that to stay ahead of the curve, there is a need for corporates to adopt disruptive and unconventional strategies. Larger companies are constantly looking for ways to redefine their products and company goals. A great way to achieve this is by being part of a coworking community where you share space with a varied talent pool of startups and independent contractors.

2) Frugality - There has also been a constant attempt by corporates to develop frugal innovative ideas. In fact, this principle has been incorporated in the basic sustainability pillars by businesses. From solution trimmings to integrating cost effective assets for employees, companies are trying to figure out ways how to do better with less. What better way to contribute to this frugality principle than being part of a coworking office to manage your real estate costs? As mentioned above, such establishments also help with their no long-term lease options giving you the flexibility to plan your budgets.

3) Collaboration hub - When you are surrounded by a talent pool of startups, there are ample chances for collaboration. This also provides opportunities for companies to interact with freelancers facilitating cross learning and performance enhancement.

Plan your Christmas the Coworking Style

It’s that time of the year when you like to spend your time with your loved ones. This Christmas, extend the festivities, love and celebration to your coworking space. At BangaloreCoworking Hub, our office spaces will be open this Christmas as well so that you can share the magic with your colleagues and coworkers as well. This is also a great time to connect with your coworkers and experience a sense of cross learning and vitality.

Being associated with a coworking community during the festive season thus has its own set of advantages. Check how you can add to the celebrations with these tips in your office space:

1)     Host a Christmas Get-together: Whether it is an impromptu party or a well-planned Christmas event, you can organize one in your coworking space. Whether you are a freelancer, an independent contributor or a startup, these events will give you ample of opportunities to network and talk about possible collaborations even. Plan one to strengthen your working relationship with your coworking neighbors.

2)      Decorate your space: Although shared office spaces often put up decorations, you can also add to this by adding a little bit of festive sparkle to your own coworking areas.

3)     Enjoy your flexible hours: Unlike traditional workspaces, with coworking, you can enjoy working in flexible hours. At Bangalore Coworking Hub, if you provide advance notice, we can even help you avoid the Christmas rush by opening the space to fit your preferred timings this season.

Want us to help you plan your Christmas setting at our coworking space, send an email at connect@bangalorecoworkinghub.com.

How to integrate health and wellness into your coworking life?

Do you know that an average adult spends around 70% time working indoors? Poor office environmental conditions may have a drastic influence on your health, wellbeing and overall productivity.

Without the optimum temperature and environmental conditions, you can become susceptible to a number of health conditions like nausea, breathing problems, headaches and more. The best way to avoid this is to ensure that you have the optimum work conditions at office. With the introduction of coworking spaces, members have a great chance at maintaining this work-life balance.

Workplace wellness has been a core value of coworking communities and more and more shared office spaces are integrating this value in their office designs. At Bangalore Coworking Hub, community managers are constantly working towards adding this core value into the environment.

A major goal for the coworking office space in 2018 will be to facilitate the well-being of its members through ideal work environment and weekly fitness sessions. With this plan, the team is planning for promoting and encouraging a community of health and wellness among its coworkers.

Some focus points for the year 2018 are:

·       Redesigning the work space to prioritize member health and wellness

·       Design a wellness program with membership incentives

·       Creating design options to include ample natural light

·       Including greenery inside the community

Do you have any ideas or suggestions how we can improve the quality of life and wellbeing or our coworking community members? Please write to us at connect@bangalorecoworkinghub.com

Shaping your Freelancing Life through Coworking

With the rise in the number of the freelancing millennials, there has been a drastic change in the global work culture. Currently, in the US, one-third of the entire workforce are freelancing and this number is expected to rise to one in two by 2020.

Closer home, India ranks as second largest country after the US with over 15 million freelancers working independently in different sectors including IT, finance and creative writing.

Though freelancing provides a great way to work with flexibility, there are certain challenges that cannot be overlooked. Some of the common challenges that are usually encountered are:

-          A sense of isolation

-          Constant motivation

-          Face-to-face client interactions

-          Setting standard work schedules

-          Distractions while working from home

-          Lack of collaborations

A single element or a combination of 2 or more elements mentioned above can significantly impact your work. Hence, while transitioning from your regular corporate work to freelance life, it is important to spend some time to address all the above issues. For this, you can either collaborate with other friends who are working independently or you can take advantage of the benefits that come out of coworking spaces in your area.

Why spend days trying to figure out ways of collaboration and connection when you can easily tap the benefits of a coworking community like the Bangalore Coworking Hub.

Such a community or shared office space will give you the required work-life balance. It will also help you collaborate with other community members and also be part of community events. Plus, at a minimal fee, you get to access all the benefits of office spaces like workstations, internet facilities, power backups, meeting rooms and more and thus, give your freelancing life a new professional direction.

Things that Government can do to boost coworking ecosystem in India

There is no justification needed to prove the importance of coworking spaces . The coworking system  helps to give huge boost to the startups ecosystem all over the world. However, a lot has to be done to further improve and boost the coworking culture in India. And things will gain speed if government extends help for the startup community..

How government can Help the startup community:

For registration of coworking space, there is still no specific category and so, many times they have register as real-estate or other irrelevant category.  So government at first find a new category for coworking space for registration.

Next thing that is very challenging for coworking community is to find an office space. There must be subsidy in coworking spaces like any other school and colleges..  School and colleges helps us to gain degrees and coworking spaces creates platform for startups to become Entrepreneurs who later creates job opportunities...

Government should even provide internet and subsidy in power consumption, since coworking spaces are in other way helping government indeed.

Also, atleast few startup events should be conducted by the government both nationally and internationally to give exposure to the startups and for collaboration.

How food and games are a best way to enhance good culture at Co-Working Spaces

With a lot of Co-working Spaces emerging in various parts of the country, what has been observed that the entrepreneurs are coming together with a lot of meetups and dinner parties to create a collaborative culture.

 There are so many reasons that define the manner in which Co-Working Spaces enhance great culture through food and games:

1.     A lot can be decided over food

Asthe old saying says that a lot can happen over a cup of coffee similarly a lot can actually happen between entrepreneurs with food facility available at the Co-Working Spaces, At food breaks and food parties that are arranged not only makes the discussions more lively but also enhance the culture.Big deals and great projects can easily be accomplished through a simple chit chat over few snacks that are offered at the Co-Working Spaces. You are able to bag some great opportunities with a collaborative and more cohesive culture.

2.   Food and Games takes away all stress

Work stress can be experienced at different stages throughout a work life and inorder to combat that you require some leisure time. What can be much better than having a fun time over some mesmerizing and sumptuous food along with some important fun–filled games that will totally take you away from the core? The Co-Working Spaces lately have started with the great services of bringing food parties as well as introducing some engaging games that will take some work stress among the entrepreneurs.

3.   Community Building is increased through Food and Games at Shared office Spaces

Another great important thing that can be well experienced in the form of great culture at the Co-Working Spaces are the manner through which the community building takes place. With good food and lot of games, you are able to provide yourself with the great community building 

Co-Working Spaces are Building Like-Minded Communities

The Co-Working Space has garnered a great importance in the recent years both within the start-up ecosystem as well as among the freelancing group. The Co-Working Spaces not only provide shared office spaces but also have a purpose much beyond to it. There is a cordial ambience of community that enhances engagement, productivity as well as form a collaborative culture in the form of like-minded individuals that caters a long amount of growth.

A lot have changed in the business scenario in the market with the coming up of these co-working spaces that are enabling you with the best of the people within the culture. Earlier when the co-working spaces actually started during that time the targeted audience was primarily those who are self-employed beings and they required a place such that they can work in an atmosphere which is all professional. With the course of time it started attracting professionals into the field of start-ups, small companies as well as various service providers.

The Co-working spaces nowadays have become more focused towards dedicating their services to a certain amount of businesses only thereby it provides the like-minded individuals with space where they can not only meet but can also learn in a great manner. Such kind of Co-Working Spaces are fostering great amount of skill development that people are able to get through matching all their skills in the city they are located under these Co-Working Spaces.

Another great reason that is helping the Co-Working Spaces build up communities is that a lot of connections and networking is being formed among the people who come to work at the communal space which is contrary to the work from home or renting some office. There is a different feel and vibe associated to the co-working spaces with a cultivated experience that will help you get the calculative mode of the respective members.

The members can easily choose with whom they can interact and can easily take over the discussions from coffee in a much more productive manner. Though it is not necessary that the community members will interact in the same manner with all but they will always be able to connect with the people within the community as and when they require the details. The Co-Working Spaces are in a way building a lot of identity within the communities through the help of potential interactions that they desire along with some great opportunities.

Looking to downsize your business? Opt for a Coworking Space

As business keeps on changing there are times when you will look towards the cost cutting in your business and want to downsize. During such scenario, a co-working space always comes as a saviour for the start-ups and organizations who are looking to downsize.

Here are some of the reasons why you should opt for Co-Working Spaces of you are looking to downsize your business:

·        Co-Working Spaces Cut Costs

Whether someone is running a big business or a simple startup one always look towards cutting the cost inorder to safe the overhead budget. It is always advisable to rent a Co-Working Space as it will not be expensive. You will not only get a place to work at cost-effective rates but will also be able to get basic amenities like meeting rooms, conferences, good connectivity that will help you get everything within your budget especially when you are facing a lot of trouble in your business.

There are a lot of flexible renting terms and you will also be provided with the good amount of furniture without investing much. This automatically ensures that you are able to get good deals.

·        Co-Working Space Gives Network to grow your Business

A business is boosted as per the network that one enjoys. With Co-Working Spaces growing at the faster pace one is able to get the right amount of network at the right time inorder to make a big difference. At a Co-Working Space, you have full flexibility to meet new entrepreneurs, startup owners, profitable ventures and have great opportunity to bring back your business which is facing a little trouble. What you should keep in mind is the fact that through working under the safe roof you are ensuring yourself with a lot of of opportunities. In a collaborative atmosphere, you are able to give good business.

Co-Working Spaces offer higher success to your business

Sharing space either to work or to live is always a better option in metropolitan cities keeping in mind many criteria, like the rent,time of usage and connectivity from your place. Co–working spaces is a great idea for those who have a small team or are individuals who want to build up a new business. Even for those businessmen/women who want a nearby place just to work away from home for a few hours and get back quickly, Co-working spaces are the right option. Multiple fields accumulated at a single area can create a lot of positive wonders.

Better Business strategies:

With people of different categories, different industries, different ideas and different ways of working it is always an added advantage though with a little discomfort of having to bear some unimportant things. With a lot of people around you can implant different plans to improve your business for which you don’t have to pay more. It is just the different minds that work under a single roof.

Money saving:

Why rent out a big office when you can co-work and save some money which can be used for your business? Also, there are a lot of co-working spaces which provide the infrastructure, equipment, furniture and also refreshments on which you don’t have to spend extra. You don't have to invest on computer devices, peripherals, the internet, electricity, security etc. You don't have worry about searching an office space, painting it right and arranging transportation for staff if you employ a very few. Maintenance free workspaces are the easiest and cool places to work giving you peace of mind.

Like minded people:

It is a natural human psychology proved through researches that when like minded people meet up, there are positive outcomes. What more is needed than better productivity for a successful business? So, at a Co-working space, you get a lot of success through many people's ideas. For those who do multi-level marketing or network business, Co-working space is the best place to increase numbers and reach targets. 

Co-working is the future trend of business like car pooling and living space sharing. Statistics show Asia is growing at a faster pace in Co-working spaces compared to other continents, so need of the hour is a peaceful place to work right. 

5 Reasons You Should Rent A Co-working Space

Not a very new concept in the business field, co-working office style is perhaps the most inspiring and effective work environment for the new age entrepreneurs and ‘start-uppers’. A co-working space gives a shared work environment that permits them to work independently and collaboratively within a challenging atmosphere, giving them the opportunity to discuss, share ideas and meet the like-minded people in the same table. Here are five reasons why you should rent a co-working space for your business.

1. A Platform To Share Idea

Most times, a difficult situation can be unravelled by discussing with other like-minded people. As humans, we always tend to get a deeper insight on issues by discussing with fellow employees and co-workers. Brain-storming only can happen over a cup of coffee with intelligent fellows on the same working space.

2. Continuous Training & Learning Opportunity

Co-working space provides learning, training and relearning by hosting seminars, workshops and other learning activities which help the entrepreneurs and co-employees on how they can flourish effectually in a competitive economy. It is a platform where not only you are building contacts, but also achieving life-long relationships.

3. Build A Network

It says, making the right connections can strengthen your chances of success. A co-working environment gives you the opportunity to connect with potential employees, partners and investors. In a shared office, you will be surrounded by goal oriented and high-achieving people which can help you to connect with small business owners, edge thinkers, freelancers and other entrepreneurs.

4. Save Money and Time

Being an entrepreneur, it is problematic to rent a full-fledged office space. A shared office area saves money big time by giving the upper-hand on collaborative opportunities – immediate relationship with talented people and saves time by providing the like-minded people on the same table.

5. A Happy Employee

Co-working spaces have no-noise policies and often there is a cool music on the background which makes the employees relax and ease the tension and anxiety normally associated with offices. Co-working spaces are great by providing dedicated space for meditation or even a room for a little nap. Most of the shared offices have the game area where employees can stretch their muscle after a tiresome day at the office.

So what are you waiting for? Let’s thrive on and discuss the benefits of a shared office with your boss today.

Co- Working Spaces a Boon For Early Startups?

Co-working spaces allow people from different work segment share a physically rented place where they can sit and work. It is indeed a nouveau concept that will help early start-ups to come out from the heavily rented workplace expenses. It is indeed a market boost, as it will help different work communities to sit and work at one place.

How it is serving as a boon-

Low Budget- Early startups need everything low budgeted, network connections, furniture, and all the fuss only maximizes the budget. Co-working place resolves this issue!

First and foremost expenditure that gets cut short will definitely help start-ups and will enable to use that amount into something more useful and productive!

Professional environment - A place where people from different work cultures gather will create a positively charged environment, where different ideas will be channeled! An environment that will help people evaluate themselves and learn more, interaction with different people will help in making a healthy yet competitive environment. This will boost productivity and help the individual groups to scale up.

Professional Network - The more people you meet, the stronger network you build.

Meeting and socializing with people always help, socializing is the key to let your business grow faster? So, a place with multiple professionals is definitely an opportunity that will help you grow a better and stronger professional network.

Professional Growth -  Co-working places will boost professional growth, meeting new people and new minds helps the business grow in the right direction. Getting hired or hiring becomes an easy task; it will give you a dive into a larger and bigger pool of professionals.

Networking -  Well, this one getting fixed is a blessing! Each of the team needs a good networking base but the costing does take a lot of expense. But splitting the same expense definitely gives a huge relief! 

How working professionals can use Co-working Spaces during weekends and enhance productivity?

Co- Working Spaces are the new trend in the market as it not only proves out to be beneficial for the young start-up minds but also to all those working professionals who are on a look out to earn an extra penny for themselves. These spaces are a medium where the working professionals will enjoy the same ambience as that of their office and can get the touch of great productivity. As the working professionals get time only during the weekends to complete a freelancing project, these shared office spaces turn out to be a boon for them.

Here are few reasons that make you decide to choose the Co-Working Spaces during weekends in order to enhance your productivity:

·         Co -Working Spaces offer all the necessary facilities-Most of the working professionals choose cafes for work during weekends, but what is at their losing end is the fact that these cafes are filled up with lot of people and a professional will not have a space to sit and work forget about the necessary facilities. Whereas at the Co-Working spaces one will easily find a lot of professional environment as well as will get the necessary equipment that will boost the productivity.

·         Collaborative Ideology- Unlike the atmosphere of fun and enjoyment on weekends at home, you will be able to find a collaborative environment with lot of influx of creative ideas as well as mindsets at these shared office spaces. You will cherish a lot of mentorship and guidance as there will be fewer people during weekends. This will in a way groom your personality as an experienced working professional.

·         Very Less Distractions- Though sitting at home with a cup of tea/coffee in your hand and working on a lazy weekend seems perfect, yet there are lot of distractions at home that will keep you away from the productive work. From TV to your neighbour’s chattering everything will keep you engaged in things that will make you leave your work. While in the Co-Working atmosphere you don’t have wile away your time into unnecessary distractions. All you will get a mental solace with full concentration and dedication towards work.

Hence, in order to increase the productivity of your freelancing or extra work you should try out the Co-Working Spaces during weekends. You will become very creative as well as get the taste of hard work paid in full respect.

How Co-Working Spaces can give you Business

With the advent of shared office spaces,a lot of companies are enhancing their business at a much faster pace. It not only facilitates the productivity of the business but also increase the chances of getting good avenues. There are a number of ways which are offered by the Co-Working Spaces through which you can get good business prospects for yourself.

1.       Co- Working Builds Great Networks: What is a noteworthy fact is that through the help of these shared office spaces, you are able to interact with the lot of budding entrepreneurs, prospective customers as well as investors. As a lot of companies are working parallel under the same roof, a lot of chances are there through which you can grow your business by connecting with great networks that will get you so many customers.

2.       Co -Working Spaces Provides Experienced Resources:Working in collaboration is a great asset for any business or a company to excel and therefore these shared office spaces are a provider of great platform wherein you can easily get the resources which are not only well experienced but also quite talented. These office spaces have people from various industry verticals working under a single roof. You can easily get your work done in fewer amounts of time and at a much mature as well as professional manner.

3.       Co -Working Helps Businesses Test Markets in a risk Free Environment:As the recent statistics shows that with the advent of technology the markets are getting much flexible and full of mobility, therefore, it becomes quite easy for a budding start-up as well as young entrepreneur to check out the customer response by exhausting very less budget as compared to the other expenses that are leveraged by renting out an office space.

4.       Co- Working Spaces Boosts Productivity:  For a small business owner or an entrepreneur maintaining the productivity is one of the essential prerogatives to enhance the business regime. What is the greatest benefit of the Co -Working Spaces is that it offers great prospects through which one can easily boost out the productivity as well as enhance the work culture of the business.

Hence, by renting out an office space you are not only going to get great positivity in your business but will also ease out all the hurdles coming in the path of great businesses. It offers great benefits and helps one to grow out great prospects.

Top six reasons why start ups should work from coworking office spaces

Coworking is a concept of sharing office space with other people. It is surprising to know the benefit s of working from coworking spaces.  Let me put some light on the benefits of working from coworking spaces.

Top six benefits of working from co working spaces.

1) Low cost: Renting a office space is a expensive affair. Most of the start-ups, so, find it difficult to rent the whole office. But working from coworking spaces becomes very economical since the office rent is shared among all the people working from there.

2) Helps in business acceleration:  Coworking spaces helps the start ups in many ways like, giving mentorship, getting investors, helps in hiring, helps in product launch and accounting etc.

3) Facilities: Normally co working spaces are equipped with all the facilities like internet, printer, scanner, meeting rooms, power back which can be utilized by the start ups when needed.

4) Mutual benefits:  Coworking spaces are start ups hub and so there is a high chance of getting mutually benefits from each other with their work skills.

5) Chance of collaboration:  There is always a good opportunity to get into collaboration with other start ups and companies.

6) End of boredom: Working from home every day can be boring and non productive. Working from Coworking office spaces can help home base workers to get rid of isolation and boredom.

5 Tips for Networking in Co Working Spaces

Going to Co-Working Spaces is simply not to work, but it has much more to add the positives of the place. There are a lot of opportunities to grow your business through networking especially in these shared office spaces that will promise you with lot of avenues and great prospects. It is very important to explore the business acumen and spread the word to those around about your work that can simply create wonders.

Here are 5 tips that you should follow to grow your networking at these shared office spaces:

Ask For a Coffee Date

Just like you are planning your date with your beloved, you need to prepare yourself in a conversational tone to ask her for out for coffee, in a similar manner, you need to be bit conversational while asking the fellow entrepreneurs to go out for coffee with you. It is best observed that the best business deals crack over coffee. Apart from it just to begin a conversation you can simply ask the members about their period of working in the Co-Working scenario and take the conversation along with it.

2                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Swap The Business Services

Another great thing that you can do is to grow out your business networking is by swapping the services. A proper coordination can help you fetch a project for yourself and can get you earn lot of profits. If you are into online marketing and the other person sharing the office space with you into graphics then both of you can help each other in your business and can gain lot of productivity for yourself.

3    Impart Knowledge

    Though it is not recommended to share your trade secrets with anyone but what you can do is to share the knowledge and intellect that you possess among the other co-worker to help him/her gain good results in their work. It is very necessary to help and collaborate with other fellow people.

4    Give a personalized touch to the useful materials

    Staplers, stationary, clips, pins etc are some of the most useful material that can add the spirit of networking within you. What you can do is to make the personalized junction to all these things that will help you reach out to your fellow co-workers quite easily and effectively.

5    Attend the Co-Working Events

From time to time, there are lot of networking events that are organized by the in house team at the Co- Working Spaces that should be enjoyed as you are able to enhance your communication and networking skills through these events and are also able to meet so many people.

Why Co-Working Is The Future of Work Culture?

In the recent years, the work culture has undergone a major shift in two ways that has impacted the economy as well as the working style of people in the country. The first one, of course, being the implementation of the digital technologies while the other being the shift in the trend of the working lifestyle.

As a lot of focus these days are paid to the corporate environment for the engagement as well as innovation perspective, the coming of Co-Working culture under one roof with lot of other start-ups is becoming the buzz of the generation.

Here are few reasons why the people are debunking the notion of old working style and enteringinto this new form of culture. 

1.    Co-Working is Affordable:The first thing that any young entrepreneur or a start ups face is the limited budget in hand. These Co-Working spaces become a lending help during such times specially in the initial years. The price to rent a space of your own with all the basic amenities required to run the office at affordable rates is what the Co-Working Spaces is all about.

2.    Building Great Communities: Generally network building is considered to be as one of the most important activity to grow one’s business. With the help of Co- Working Spaces, you don’t need to physically grow from one place to another to get the proper contacts. As in these shared office spaces, you will be able to get the great amount of like minded people working together under one domain, you will be able to bring out strong communities. The people can also become great prospective clients for the future too. It is one of the key strength of the work culture.

3.    Work Like your own boss: Another thing is that these office spaces operate throughout the day and week. Therefore unlike the working scenario of 9-6 office, one can very easily work as per your own convenience. You can also work on any hour of the day. This gives you more flexibility, creativity and the freedom to work as per your own desires.

Hence, owing to so many benefits that these Co- Working Spaces are offering will help you to meet the challenges during the early days of your setting up of the business. You can easily manage the problems and can get the great benefits.

How Co-Working Office has changed the work culture among office goers?

Co–Working is the new trend in the work culture which has brought a paradigm shift from the traditional work culture wherein the working hours were confined to 9-5 job scenario. The office goers are now experiencing a major change in their working lifestyle with the coming up of shared office spaces.  Not only the working pattern but also the working place has taken a complete makeover.

Here are few things that one can experience as an office goer within a Co -Working Space:

·         Enhanced Productivity: As Co- Working Spaces are primarily focussed in the areas of thesuccess rate and growth, therefore, one can enhance the productivity. As these office spaces are not only a place for the employees per se but also for the young entrepreneurs, start-ups that are in their initial stages, one can grow networking and achieve productivity in a much greater amount.

·         Flexibility: Unlike the conventional time span of 9- 5, these shared spaces offer much flexibility on the working time. Now you can get access to the offices during the night time, weekends or public holidays. As per your requirement you can go to the office and unlike the monotonous working schedule you can find a much more lively and happy atmosphere in the place.

Along with a flexible working environment, you can also enjoy the surplus of creativity with lot of innovate ideas that can foster much larger positive results. You can imbibe and take out much more new ideas from the businesses that are beyond one’s networking areas.

·         Motivating: Another major thing that one feels at these shared office spaces is the sense of motivation and inspiration to work hard and strive excellence. The  complete atmosphere of the place is very pleasing. One can find a lot of motivating incidents while working in this work culture and can also find a lot of new opportunities as per one’s own capability. As it is a place where you are able to meet up like-minded people, therefore you can build your networking community stronger much more reliable.

Hence, Co Working Spaces are like a dream workplace that promises to give a lot of amazing opportunities and networking facilities to the office goers. It not only facilitates the growth of an individual or an entrepreneur but also helps in creating a work culture which is very happy and full of positive energy.