Comments on: Who needs an office anyway?

By: Jarkko

Jarkko — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 11:43:43 +0000

@Satu: Hey thanks! I have been interested in creating something like Network Oasis for quite a while now. I’d like to be a Space Catalyst (http://wiki.coworking.info/SpaceCatalyst), so it’s really cool to see that someone is doing that in Finland as well!

I’ll look up more info, but huge thanks for sharing!

By: Satu

Satu — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 10:55:06 +0000

The types of offices where I am sitting atm are truly a thing of the past.

We have a potentially interesting project here at work, called UbiOffice. The purpose of the project is trying to imagine future offices. Is is part of our new Porvoo Campus, that will be executed in a non-traditional way.

In Joensuu they are one step ahead. Network Oasis is a place, an office hotel so to say, where you can work. You only pay for the time you spend there. Loads of people share the area and computers but nobody owns them. It’s more ecological since less pc’s are needed in total, it gives you an opportunity to meet other people and network but you don’t have to have an office.

Some info at: http://www.network-oasis.com/main.site?action=siteupdate/view&id=2
I also have some more info.

There is also this great woman here in Finland studying the subject, Suvi Nenonen. Dunno how much info there is on her on the Internet, but check her out. I heard her speak once and she was awesome!

By: Jarkko

Jarkko — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 07:08:34 +0000

@Christian: Good point! Last week I was working from home in a proper way, in a room with a closed door – and it worked really well. Much better than when I work at my kitchen table :)

Also, it’s great to hear from you – for some reason I always find it exciting when I see Finns living abroad.

By: kristian

kristian — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 09:49:07 +0000

Only thing I'd add, or warn, is to avoid using too small of a home as an office. I've experienced this when moving from a 3 bedroom house in Rochester to 1 1/2 (45 Sq m) bedroom flat in London, sharing with my girlfriend. Also, we both use the flat as a home office. I often feel like leaving the flat and going to a coffee shop to do the work. It's important that you can easily close the door on your work in the evening. Of course the downside I had with living in Rochester was that few days a week I'd spend up to 4 or 5 hours commuting to London. Now some of the jobs are 10 min walk away. I concur with using Campfire and would add that Basecamp has really opened the way I collaborate with others. kristian's last blog post: Web Design Workflow for Non-Web Designers

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