Co-working: The Ultimate in Teleworking Flexibility

Brad Reed - Reprinted from Network World
Tuesday, October 23, 2007 12:00 PM PDT
Jon Pierce’s teleworking office can’t get much more casual.

Operating out of the third floor of a Cambridge, Mass., triple-decker apartment building, Pierce and several of his peers come to work dressed in jeans and spend their days pecking away diligently at their keyboards. They play music sans headphones to help pass the time, with the new Radiohead album garnering significant airplay in recent days. For leisure, they’ve set up an electric guitar on a nearby chair that can be played during break time, and there are piles of Reese’s cups and jellybeans spread across the kitchen counter to satisfy their quick hunger fixes.

While they may look like college roommates studying for a final exam, they’re actually part of a growing trend in teleworking. After they spent years teleworking either at home or at the local coffee shop, Pierce and his colleagues banded together with others to form the Beta House, a co-working community for Web entrepreneurs. Co-working communities, which combine the relaxed, informal atmosphere of working at home with the sociability and cost-sharing of an office, have emerged as alternatives for telecommuters who miss having person-to-person interaction during work.
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