I’ve been working from home for the past 6 years and I love it. This gave me the opportunity to clearly understand that remote work is having an effective workplace, productivity, communication, company culture and find a work life balance.
I want to explain the idea and some benefits of sharing your home workspace with other people.
Working Remotely in Developing Countries
In some countries the amount of available coworking spaces may be small, coffee shops with a good internet connection that aren’t loud can be very limited. Another factor to consider is high costs for renting a private office including your cost of living. In addition, it’s possible you have to cope with the stress of traffic jams just go to the office whether private or shared.
If you already have experienced it, you probably thought about how to make a better choice. Considering there is a growing societal demand for autonomy, freedom and flexibility. There is a need to provide diversity of places and space for ideas by sharing your home or looking for a creative place to work.
Empower Female Entrepreneurs
According to Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) Women’s Entrepreneurship, 10% of women entrepreneurs operated businesses alone. The report also indicates a supportive work-family environment reduces participation in entrepreneurship among women more than among men, likely because it makes work as an employee more attractive.
Women are more likely to invest in a relative than men; on average across the entire sample, 63% of female investors provided funding to an entrepreneur who was a close family member or other relative. This is nearly 40% more often than male investors.
On average, few women investors funded work colleagues or strangers with good business ideas, and at only a little more than three-fourths the level of men investors.
We need to do more than merely discuss this issue, driving business changes for women in order to facilitate effective networking.
Solo Entrepreneurs
Paul Graham says about having one founder it’s a vote of no confidence and starting a startup is too hard for one person. To begin with, you will probably start to search for a space to join other entrepreneurs in a coworking space. I’m sure this can work but I do not believe that this is actually the optimal solution.
What if you have the opportunity to have a coach you need or a professional with a certain skill where you can chat and get feedback in the kitchen of your home?
The main goal is to get in touch with different backgrounds of professionals so you can share workspace and knowledge.
Introverts vs extroverts
For those who work from home: Do you believe it’s really necessary to attend events or a coworking spaces in order not to feel alone?
It’s a question I’ve often asked myself. For me, it’s important to work in a place where there is no pressure to be social. Over the years, I have visited different sorts of coworking: The coolest spaces with people who were more open to talk during their coffee break and other places plenty of introverts. Being introverted is not a problem, perhaps the difficulty is to overcome the barrier of shyness between two people for first, second and third contact.
I believe in some cases that co-working spaces are not the best solution for everyone. We can always find a better alternative to collaborate with flexible work arrangements and meeting interesting people.