Precautions to make The Space a safe alternative to Working From Home & Commuting
Nick Kent • May 21, 2020
Precautions we made to make The Space a safe, productive alternative..
As the lockdown eases, we have already made precautions to make our coworking venue in Farnham, The Space, covid-secure. All to allow our members to benefit from a productive place to work in Farnham:
🌱 Only taking bookings for every other desk
🌱 Sanitisation stations
🌱 Hygienic Handles on doors that can't be removed
🌱 Daily deep cleans
Alternative to Commuting
Working from home in or around Farnham can have benefits, particularly when the weather is so fine, but also its limitations. Fighting over the only spare deskspace, your dearly beloved(s) are just too noisy, not separating home from work? All reasons why a local, Farnham based place to work is an attractive option.
Break from Working from Home
Farnham is a beautiful town, but the danger of working from home for ever is you are just a "number on the payroll" albeit with a Zoom / Teams login ! To have somewhere in Farnham to work (safely) alongside others is inspiring, you learn, you are motivated and helps focus.... we know from experience.
In addition to the productive workplace, we offer our members tangible discounts
with business in Farnham and a local, reachable network of likeminded, talented business people.
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"After all the word company, Companio, comes from the latin 'to break bread with others' "

Learn about our Virtual Office service in Farnham. A Farnham virtual office address and service designed for small businesses, freelancers or solopreneurs who can benefit from separating their home from work address. Having your business registered at your accountants or worse at your home is often the default position for many small businesses, freelancers or even solopreneurs. Although convenient, this has some disadvantages, and we offer Virtual Office service in addition to our coworking or workspace options here in Farnham. Postal Service (either scan, forward or collect) Corporate professional address in Farnham for your business correspondence Maintain separation of your home address and your business

Different coworking venues have different pricing models, but we like to keep our offering very simple and more importantly flexible for our coworking members. We have designed our latest venue here in Farnham to be a members only "club", to give an added sense of community between our members, all of which are local or working in the area who get to know each other, swap ideas and networks and give that sense of community. Most of our members have the facility to work from home, but prefer what we can offer them in terms of a productive environment and that separation of work from home again.

We often get asked who uses our new Coworking or Shared Office venue in Farnham, and this is a difficult question to answer as we have broad profile of users.. from commuters where working from home isn't ideal, through to productive members that can simply benefit from a change of scene, we have a wide range of professionals that are members here at The Space in Farnham. What our coworking members all share in common is the desire for an office to work in Farnham, be inspired and separate home from work again...

The Space was already designed in January to be a low density coworking or workspace in Farnham, we only have desks for up to 15 hotdesks in our centre across 2 floors in our charming centre on East Street. The historic building has vaulted ceilings, huge sash windows and oozes character right in the centre of Farnham so is already light, airy and has the feeling of space. So when Covid arrived we were lucky as we didn’t have to make many changes. What we did do was half the number of desks for our co-working members and do all the necessary sanitisation precautions that have now become the norm with Covid and the return to work.

After 3+ weeks of working from home in and around Farnham, we are curious how the workplace will change once the brakes are lifted in Surrey and people start to return to work. Things for sure will have changed in that even the most traditional leaders and managers must have changed their view on how productive their team can be working from home. I for one have found some aspects truly challenging (the locked in a room syndrome and the lack of human intervention), but equally there are aspects that I have enjoyed (eating with the family at a reasonable hour, not commuting, walking the dog for your screen-break) and sometimes productivity has shot up (ability to really focus etc).