What is Coworking and Microleasing?

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What is Coworking? Coworking is a movement to build community workplaces. Sharing costs and building our personal and business social networks is the goal. communityworkplaces.com

Motivations • Reducing costs by sharing resources • Find business partners and employees • Adapting to the future of distributed work • Less people will work in large companies • Networking can lead to sales communityworkplaces.com

Community • Working in small spaces on diverse projects • Work Hard / Play Hard • Local is Global communityworkplaces.com

Where Community Workplaces THRIVE • Coworking Facilities • Corporate Ofﬁces • Small Business Ofﬁces • University Campuses ? communityworkplaces.com

We are Modern Workers • We work "virtually" with few boundaries • Constantly connected to each other • Not just in the technology sector • Virtual Work is an established practice communityworkplaces.com

Driving Forces • The Internet = Ubiquitous Computing • Long Crowded Commutes • Rising Unemployment Rates • High cost of fuel • Green Business Revolution • Outsourcing • communityworkplaces.com

Home Ofﬁce communityworkplaces.com

Coworking Home Ofﬁce communityworkplaces.com

Physical Space Costs Money communityworkplaces.com

Use Space Efﬁciently communityworkplaces.com

Microleasing • Commercial Ofﬁce Space leasing is changing • Small spaces to many people • More Medium to Small Companies communityworkplaces.com

Home vs Ofﬁce communityworkplaces.com

Home vs Ofﬁce • Cost • working at home may be cheaper but you pay for it with social isolation • Social Interaction leads to collaboration and opportunity • Productivity • changes in environment increases productivity. • being around strangers can help create a silent peer pressure. communityworkplaces.com

Advantages • Create Super Ofﬁces • Find the Next Job • Increase Productivity • Increase Your Competitive Advantage • Fun Social Networking is Good Marketing communityworkplaces.com

Grow your network • We know more people • Customers • Sales people are no longer • Business Partners the only ones with a large Rolodex • Future Employees • Consultants • Friends/Family communityworkplaces.com

Our Services • Workspace Construction • Community Building • Event Management • Organic Incubation • Ofﬁce Technology • Training communityworkplaces.com

HAVE FUN communityworkplaces.com

Brian Russell brian@carrborocoworking.com twitter.com @brianr @microleasing @carrborocowork communityworkplaces.com

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What is Coworking and Microleasing?

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