“There’s something about saying your commitments out loud to another person that makes you actually stick with them,” she says. She uses a productivity method known as the Pomodoro Technique, where collaborators share focused 25-minute work sessions prefaced by telling each other what they plan to accomplish in the upcoming interval. Meanwhile, Goos finds working around friends increases her output. It increases your surface area for serendipity.” “Doing projects together, whether or not it’s the same project, enables a lot of cross-pollination.
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In Rotterdam, one co-working session with an artist led to helping out with a voiceover, which has led to a new professional interest in voice acting. Among other benefits, she enjoys taking breaks from coding to try out a yoga routine, or give feedback on a business model.
Dean says she sets up sessions by texting her friends: “I’m feeling like being antisocially social, would you like to come over and mostly ignore each other except when something neat comes up?”ĭean appreciates the opportunities to intersect with her friends’ work. Other co-working partners have included a nursing home inspector and a yoga teacher. ” She also notes cost-savings as an additional advantage, like not having to spend on food in outside establishments.ĭean, a project manager and UX designer, began home co-working in 2014 while living in South Carolina, US, alternating among her own home and those of two friends: a business-intelligence specialist, and a programmer at a start-up. “The more different types of things you see people do in context, the more you think ‘oh, I could integrate that into what I’m doing, in a completely unexplored way’. Seeing how her friends structure their workdays, maintain motivation and move among tasks “makes a better source of inspiration”, she says.
But those locations lack many key advantages, says Netherlands-based Eowyn Dean, who instead sets up co-working sessions at her home. Often, people gather at cafés, libraries or co-working spaces. As a result, some remote workers have gravitated towards working alongside others. However, some workers have also reported isolation as a major drawback of traditional remote work. Its biggest advantages, according to a 2021 Gallup survey of 9,000 full-time US workers, include flexibility to intersperse personal and work commitments (cited by 37% of respondents), improved wellbeing (44%) and avoiding a commute (52%). She establishes the co-working sessions ad-hoc, inviting people over when either she or they are feeling stuck in their projects, or as a way to simply see a friend.Īs remote work has grown throughout the past several years, data has shown benefits in working outside of a traditional office set-up. Her main collaborators are fellow writers and other friends “whose energy I love”, such as a psychologist who runs an NGO. After lockdowns, she began inviting friends over specifically for co-working sessions. Visiting friends who stayed overnight at her apartment would work together in her living space the following day. Goos began the practice while living in Lagos, Nigeria, in 2019.
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“It’s a natural upgrade from working at home alone.” “I realised it increases both my joy level and my productivity level,” she says. When Lotte Elsa Goos, a children’s writer, finds herself feeling uninspired, she’s developed a fruitful solution: inviting over friends for ‘home co-working’ sessions in her Brooklyn living room.
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