When it's only the founders it isn't really more expensive especially when you factor in cleaning, food, coffee, etc. If you're growing beyond the founders then it probably makes financial sense to get your own office.
> It's distracting.
> It creates an endless font of excuses to "network" and "talk shop" instead of powering through the schleps.
Only as much as you let it be. Put on headphones and get work done.
> It colocates serious companies alongside fundamentally unserious ones, leaving the serious ones to filter requests, drama, networking, &c.
To a certain degree but you're grasping at straws here. Don't want to talk to someone? Tell them you have work to do and don't talk to them. It's really not that hard.
Of course I can't speak for everyone. Some people simply can't adjust to working with other people around. Personally I prefer it, I find it inspiring.
No. It is significantly more expensive. I'm not saying this in the abstract. I just got a 2-person office for my new company, and I know what 1871 costs. 1871 is expensive. Office space in Chicago is not expensive. I'm actually paying slightly more to be walking distance from my house in Oak Park, and I'm still cheaper for 2 people than I would be at 1871. The difference would be even more stark if we had gotten an office in the Monadnock, where the company I'm leaving next week is. And the Monadnock is a historic landmark building with an Intelligentsia on the first floor.
When it's only the founders it isn't really more expensive especially when you factor in cleaning, food, coffee, etc. If you're growing beyond the founders then it probably makes financial sense to get your own office.
> It's distracting. > It creates an endless font of excuses to "network" and "talk shop" instead of powering through the schleps.
Only as much as you let it be. Put on headphones and get work done.
> It colocates serious companies alongside fundamentally unserious ones, leaving the serious ones to filter requests, drama, networking, &c.
To a certain degree but you're grasping at straws here. Don't want to talk to someone? Tell them you have work to do and don't talk to them. It's really not that hard.
Of course I can't speak for everyone. Some people simply can't adjust to working with other people around. Personally I prefer it, I find it inspiring.