Coworking: why and where to find your new workspace

Coworking has many advantages, and not only from an economic point of view. But how to find the one that best suits your needs? Here are some tips:

One of the first rules to be respected when setting up your own business is to try to clearly separate the space in which you live from that in which you work. A room in the house should be dedicated exclusively to the professional activity, if you have the opportunity to have an external office, is even better. But in this case, you also need to be prepared to face extra costs: rent, bills, initial costs for furniture and equipment and so on.

A coworking space can therefore be the ideal solution to enjoy all the advantages of a furnished and equipped office, but at a reasonable cost. This means sharing a common space with the pros and cons of working in shared offices.

Today we prefer to underline the advantages of this choice, not only in economic terms but also and above all for personal enrichment. Being with other freelancers and professionals can create a kind of positive camaraderie that can help you to better overcome some moonlight, but it can also spur you to be more responsible and rigorous, respecting timetables and focusing on your work, because in the end you find yourself among other colleagues and you want to be just as professional.

Working in a shared office can also help you develop partnerships and collaborations, get involved in new projects or get in touch with new customers. In case you need to receive a visit from a customer or potential customer, you can count on a suitable room, many of these spaces provide fully equipped meeting rooms where you can welcome him in a professional way without having to fall back on the bar under the house.

But where and how to find the coworking that suits you? The Venture Studios comes to our aid, publishing a "list of the best and most used online services, always up to date, to find shared workspaces or coworking in every city in the world, to work in stimulating, creative environments and where you can meet other professionals who share a desk, an office, a meeting room or an equipped workspace.

Here we summarize the best sources for coworking in HSR Layout, Bangalore:

It must be said that these resources work mainly in the case of large urban centers, while as for the smaller towns in HSR Layout, Bangalore is still on the high seas. It may be a question of prices, it may be a question of mentality, but there is still no real community similar, for example, to that of temporary rentals for residential use.

However, some franchises are taking off, such as The Venture Studios, which defines itself as "the Network of Independent Coworking" and which in HSR Layout, Bangalore already has a hundred spaces.

In general, it is still necessary to make do and search autonomously for the space that best suits your needs.

A simple search in the vicinity on Google is often enough to have an overview of the realities in the area, but you can also find many indications in the sites and portals dedicated to meeting rooms, events, conferences

Finally, many publish announcements of coworking spaces and stations on channels such as https://www.theventurestudios.in/.

Often, however, it is the dear old word of mouth that dominates.

In any case, it always depends on individual needs. The list proposed by The Venture studios is specifically designed for nomadic workers, for those who by profession, passion or both are stateless, cosmopolitan, constantly on the move.

In this case the definitions of shared workspace and temporary workspace tend to coincide, allowing you to find your own workstation ideally in every part of the world. Among the sites that indicate spaces equipped with different workstations, meeting rooms, services and technologies, The Venture Studios mentions:

Coworker

A search engine that helps you to find the coworking that best suits your needs all over the world, thanks to the use of different filters and reviews by other users.

Work Hard Anywhere

An App, constantly updated by a community of entrepreneurs, freelancers, and creatives, that points out the best spaces around you where to work online, in over 1000 cities in 70 different countries.

Coworking Map

A global geolocation map where shared and coworking workspaces are reported all over the world. To date, it has about 1900 coworkings in over 100 countries and almost 900 cities.

Coworkify

Another search engine that allows you to find and book a workstation within coworking spaces in any city in the world.

Coworking Wiki Directory

A list of coworking spaces around the world, divided into different subsections with the possibility to search by name, city or state.

Other resources, instead, are specialized in more "AirB&B" style solutions, to find a temporary workstation at the office or at the home of someone who makes it available.

Desk Surfing

Online service that helps you find coworking spaces and other professionals in the world ready to share a workstation with you.

Desks Near Me

A search engine that allows you to quickly find and book workspaces, coworking and rental desks.

Office riders

A platform where individuals and companies around the world rent out workstations in their homes or offices to other people.

Sparechair

A community of people who work online from home and offer to rent one or more workstations. (Currently only works in the USA)

Finally, but also in this case in Bangalore we are still a bit 'behind, other sites point out cafes and bars with connection and other services that allow you to work in an informal but quiet, with the added possibility of consuming healthy and tasty food and drink.

Coffices

A community of online professionals who share the location of the world's bars and cafes here, offering a welcoming environment, wi-fi, power outlets and, in theory, even a great coffee.

Wi-Fi Cafe Guide

It is a collaborative project born with the aim of helping people to find a cafeteria with WiFi connection near where they are. At the moment there are only about ten locations, and it does not seem to have come out of a purely design phase, but who knows...

Workfrom

A detailed list of the best places (for now only in the United States and Canada) where you can work remotely, socialize and drink a good coffee (always according to local taste).

Cafes For Nomads

A service created by digital nomads, for digital nomads, looking for ideal places to work with quality coffee, fast internet, tasty food and a comfortable and fun environment. (For now only in Thailand).

The panorama of shared workspaces is therefore quite varied, and in HSR Layout, Bangalore,it maintains a high level of promiscuity, with solutions still too often improvised or really reduced to the essentials.

StartUp HSR Layout, Bangalore reported the first national report on this new form of business carried out between July and October 2017 by the GoDesk space in Potenza: the ICS2018 (HSR Layout, Bangalore Coworking Survey 2018) has led to the identification of over 550 coworking spaces, distributed mainly in Lombardy, Veneto and Emilia Romagna. The report also showed that coworking is a complex business, and that in 2017 only 30% of the spaces had a positive balance, and this percentage falls further for sectoral coworking (for specific groups) and for those with a social vocation.

In fact, the spaces that deal mainly with coworking were just over 15%.

The important thing is to have what you really need in mind: an occasional or fixed space? A place shared with other people or a closed space? What are the conditions you could not give up? For some it's privacy, for others it's silence, for others it's just a printer or a coffee machine.

Whatever your needs, there's a solution out there that's right for you.

THE VENTURE STUDIOS - Coworking Space HSR Layout

Address: #L-176, 2nd Floor, 5th Main, HSR Layout, Sector-6, Service Lane, Near Outer Ring Road, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560102

Hours: Open ⋅ Closes 6PM

Phone: 095555 33663

https://g.page/VentureStudio-HSR