Why Communist Loft is more an office club than coworking
As a result of discussions on Habré and a number of freelancer sites. In order to separate the cutlets from the flies.
For whom renting places in Communist Loft does not make any sense:
- Freelancers without a company. Why spend money on an office if you have a house and a cafe in case you meet customers? They will understand everything, because they hired freelancers, as a cheap alternative to ordering in the company. On the contrary, for the customer - the presence of a freelancer in a personal office is an unkind sign that prices will soon rise and they will have to look for another artist.
If it is impossible to work at home (for example, having small children) or if you need to work in a team of freelancers, renting an apartment is the best way. Fortunately, prices have fallen dramatically now, and you can plump and spend the night in such an office.
-Companies whose business does not require any respectability. For example, for an online store it is important to be in direct access to the warehouse, but it does not matter what the office looks like and where it is located. The same applies to all companies whose clients do not appear in the contractor’s office before signing budgets.
Here the best way is to rent a room in a non-reconstructed research institute, which still remained even in significant proximity to the garden ring.
- Companies whose mental comfort does not affect their productivity.Or in the case when employees simply do not care in what environment it is fruitful to work. This is the case of wholesalers of gas valves, pumping equipment, work clothing and other industrial crap. Their path also lies in the research institute on the Moscow Ring Road. Surrounded by their own kind, employees of such companies feel like fish in water. And the inconvenience of location does not scare them - anyway, they often get to work by commuter train from near and far suburbs.
- Companies with more than 8 employees and long-term confidence in their own future.Yes, 6X500 is $ 4000. To date, the amount for which you can rent a small (from 80 meters) decent office in a normal area. But. Let's not forget about the arrangement (10-15 kilobaskes, if there are jobs - reception, meeting room, Wi-Fi, printers, etc. office crap) and a fine for breaking the lease. Therefore, renting such an office without clear prospects for the coming year is stupid.
Representatives of these 4 listed types of companies often alarm me when they are interested in rental conditions at Communist Loft. Because either they do not calculate their own strengths, or simply want to pay for what they do not need.
Who are we waiting for:
- Companies whose nature of the business requires an office and its respectable appearance.
- Companies whose productivity depends on the quality of the atmosphere of the workspace. Often these are intelligent and creative businesses.
- Companies that are inconvenient to show customers their volume of 2-5 people.
- Companies that are important to stay in the organizational form of companies, and not to become free producers "at home" with a registered legal entity.
- Companies that soberly assess the prospects for the development of the economy are not sure about the long-term future of their market.
- Design teams whose working mode requires a comfortable and at the same time free environment around.
- And of course, startup projects whose nature of the business involves one or more of the above conditions.
Hope all questions are covered. ;)
Thank you friends!
And as a bonus photo of the process, in the “was / became” mode:
For whom renting places in Communist Loft does not make any sense:
- Freelancers without a company. Why spend money on an office if you have a house and a cafe in case you meet customers? They will understand everything, because they hired freelancers, as a cheap alternative to ordering in the company. On the contrary, for the customer - the presence of a freelancer in a personal office is an unkind sign that prices will soon rise and they will have to look for another artist.
If it is impossible to work at home (for example, having small children) or if you need to work in a team of freelancers, renting an apartment is the best way. Fortunately, prices have fallen dramatically now, and you can plump and spend the night in such an office.
-Companies whose business does not require any respectability. For example, for an online store it is important to be in direct access to the warehouse, but it does not matter what the office looks like and where it is located. The same applies to all companies whose clients do not appear in the contractor’s office before signing budgets.
Here the best way is to rent a room in a non-reconstructed research institute, which still remained even in significant proximity to the garden ring.
- Companies whose mental comfort does not affect their productivity.Or in the case when employees simply do not care in what environment it is fruitful to work. This is the case of wholesalers of gas valves, pumping equipment, work clothing and other industrial crap. Their path also lies in the research institute on the Moscow Ring Road. Surrounded by their own kind, employees of such companies feel like fish in water. And the inconvenience of location does not scare them - anyway, they often get to work by commuter train from near and far suburbs.
- Companies with more than 8 employees and long-term confidence in their own future.Yes, 6X500 is $ 4000. To date, the amount for which you can rent a small (from 80 meters) decent office in a normal area. But. Let's not forget about the arrangement (10-15 kilobaskes, if there are jobs - reception, meeting room, Wi-Fi, printers, etc. office crap) and a fine for breaking the lease. Therefore, renting such an office without clear prospects for the coming year is stupid.
Representatives of these 4 listed types of companies often alarm me when they are interested in rental conditions at Communist Loft. Because either they do not calculate their own strengths, or simply want to pay for what they do not need.
Who are we waiting for:
- Companies whose nature of the business requires an office and its respectable appearance.
- Companies whose productivity depends on the quality of the atmosphere of the workspace. Often these are intelligent and creative businesses.
- Companies that are inconvenient to show customers their volume of 2-5 people.
- Companies that are important to stay in the organizational form of companies, and not to become free producers "at home" with a registered legal entity.
- Companies that soberly assess the prospects for the development of the economy are not sure about the long-term future of their market.
- Design teams whose working mode requires a comfortable and at the same time free environment around.
- And of course, startup projects whose nature of the business involves one or more of the above conditions.
Hope all questions are covered. ;)
Thank you friends!
And as a bonus photo of the process, in the “was / became” mode: