by Barbara Sprenger | Jul 7, 2021 | Business Tips, Coworking, Coworking Software, From the Founder, Technology
Once we figured out how to do coworking, it turned into a pretty stable (and personally rewarding!) business for many of us. Until March of 2020. My brother (who works in a related industry) said to me once, “We all thought we were so smart. We weren’t so smart. It...
by Barbara Sprenger | Jun 7, 2021 | From the Founder
Who knew that “hybrid” had so many meanings and uses? The one we can’t get away from right now, though, relates to how in the world we’re going to bring people back to work: in person sometimes and remote sometimes. Hence, hybrid. There are so many pieces of this, so...
by Barbara Sprenger | May 4, 2021 | Business Tips, Community, Coworking, Coworking Software, From the Founder, Technology
As people move back out into the work world, take a step back and notice the everyday changes in people’s perspectives. They’re significant. I just got off the phone with an old friend/former employee who now works for a very large enterprise. She said all of...
by Barbara Sprenger | Apr 5, 2021 | Business Tips, Community, Coworking, Coworking Software, From the Founder
Are you seeing a pickup of people coming back into your coworking space? Maybe it’s a little slower than you hoped, but it’s certainly happening. It feels, though, a little like the Munchkins coming out after Dorothy’s house fell on the Wicked Witch of the West. Your...
by Barbara Sprenger | Mar 1, 2021 | Community, Coworking, From the Founder
We’re hitting one of hardest times of the past year, and this is just a brief reminder…to take care of yourself. With our coworking spaces, we did all the things we should have: kept talking to our landlords, reduced rents as we could, installed recommended air...
by Barbara Sprenger | Feb 1, 2021 | Business Tips, From the Founder
by Barbara Sprenger, founder and CEO of Deskworks Yes, we’re coming down the home stretch of lockdowns, even if we don’t know how long the stretch is going to be. If you’re running a coworking space or a flexible office center, you may have made a deferred rent...