Entrepreneurship looks really fancy and intriguing to the world outside. While it does bring a lot of advantages, indeed allowing you time flexibility, freedom in decision making, etc, but it also brings along a huge cost reflecting through “solitude”. Have any of you experienced that too? When you wish to decorate your workstation around a festival, or you sometimes feel like taking a break and hanging out for lunch, but as you look around, you barely find people who could accompany you. You feel a little lonely and miss those old days where you worked in large teams and never encountered this before. Soon, you are reminded of the fact that it was your own decision to drop off that environment and role to achieve something extraordinary in life. The coworking spaces are now blurring those lines to help you fill in for the gaps. The culture and team like feeling can still be relished by solo entrepreneurs. How?
Long ago, when I used to work in a 9 to 5 job framework, I was oblivious of the concept of coworking spaces. I had never imagined these would make so much sense to me someday. Mired by the hard pressed schedule, and lured by the time flexibility, etc, I chose to work from home. For a few days it worked out well. But soon, I began to feel distracted with the happenings at home. Then, I felt the limitations of talent around me each time I was stumped on a work related issue. My husband suggested a perfect solution to join a coworking space, he said.
“Coworking is a move that is created to change the lives of entrepreneurs and freelancers worldwide. These coworking spaces offer functionality and flexibility that you otherwise won’t be able to notice in a typical office,” I was told.
What Coworking Spaces Offer? Culture, Bonding and…?
Operating from home is an exhausting job that drains all your mind. There are intangible challenges that make you much sicker and more distracted. At home, home becomes a priority and not work. There is hardly any balance left.
The Culture Advantage
Finding Inspiration:
Your coworkers, regardless of whom they report to, or which function are they performing, remain almost as your colleagues working in separate teams. When you see them everyday, you find the necessary inspiration to walk down to work and fight all indiscipline.
Conducive Environment:
An office, in the present day scenario, is not just confined to a certain brick and mortar infrastructure. It is a place that demands a balance between recreating, retreat and work. On a Diwali eve, no matter how much will you try it at home or at work, you would choose to make a Rangoli with a coworker instead of finishing up your deliverable. That’s natural and pretty normal! But, if there is no worker, you would skip both the things work and Rangoli. Think.
Emotional Well Being and Knowledge Sharing:
When we confine too much to self, our stress begins to mount even though we do not realize. Irrespective of the gender, here, all of us need people who we could talk to about our constraints and challenges. Even if we choose not to share the personal problems, seeking guidance and support on professional issues becomes quite imperative.
Indeed, a coworking space offers all of that to you.
Other quick benefits of a Coworking space include:
- Multiplied network
- Minimal distractions
- Consistent motivation
- Cost saving
- Easy Access to resources
- An accelerated growth
Summing Up
The Indian subcontinent is now seeing a fast emergence of coworking and shared workspaces. However, very few of them have been able to understand the real value system that keeps the coworking culture and hence the spaces alive and kicking. Starthub Nation, being a pioneer in the Chandigarh region, finds its roots in the actual pain points and needs for small businesses and entrepreneurs. And hence, inducing the much-needed culture comes in naturally for the team.
Learn everything about Starthub Nation culture and centers here.
