7 January 2009
Carsonispace – Rent a desk at our new coworking environment
Come join us at Carsonispace! I’m really excited to announce that we’ve opened up Carsonified HQ to be a coworking environment where we have five desks available to rent.
Here’s what you get:
* Your own dedicated desk
* Free broadband
* Free coffee and tea
* A dedicated phone line with voicemail
* Use of colour printer
* 24 hour access with your own key
* Use of the meeting room
* A fun and vibrant working environment!
* A free coffee mug :)
* Two Carsonified Journals (if you sign up by end of Jan)
Carsonified Office Tour from Carsonified on Vimeo.
There’s only five desks at £395 per month, so I think they’ll go quick. Just shoot me an email at ryan at carsonified dot com if you’re interested!
Enjoy this article?
If you liked this article, feel free to re-tweet it to let others know. Thanks, we appreciate it :)
We love .net Magazine
We're big fans of .net so they've hooked us up with a rad deal: Save 50 percent on your subscription.
Rob Stevenson-Leggett
# January 7, 2009 - 12:21 pm
Is that rate per day?
Oliver
# January 7, 2009 - 12:27 pm
Hi – Could you confirm what period the £395 covers?
Keir Whitaker
# January 7, 2009 - 12:30 pm
@rob It’s £395 per month :) I have now amended the post, thanks for pointing it out.
Ian
# January 7, 2009 - 12:31 pm
@Rob and @Oliver, if you actually follow that first link the details are there – it’s a month.
Matthew Lawson
# January 7, 2009 - 1:44 pm
Wow, how random! I have never seen a company do this before!
Unfortunately I see that you have glass desks and I use a infra-red mouse and a mouse mat is not included in the price. We are incompatible! :o(
Antonio
# January 7, 2009 - 1:56 pm
Very good idea, that’s sinergy. Congratulations!
Laurian Gridinoc
# January 7, 2009 - 2:38 pm
I wish you would also have one desk for rent on daily bases, for example if someone want’s to work on something for couple days, over weekend, etc. and it needs the perfect environment :)
Jason
# January 7, 2009 - 6:36 pm
I just decided last night to offer this same thing out of my Green Bay office… there’s something to be said for the energy created by complementary services working next to eachother–certainly beats having empty space that isn’t being used!
What I can’t get around is the security side of things. I mean, with 24 hour access, how do you keep “desk tenants” from messing with your equipment after hours? (I’m kind of particular about my workspace, if you can’t tell)
btw Green Bay is in NO WAY competition for Bath… my surroundings are humble by comparison…
Grant Mitchell
# January 7, 2009 - 7:26 pm
Wow. Certainly a worrying time to be a Carsonified employee – seems to be they’re doing everything to make a quick buck fast.
Roro
# January 7, 2009 - 7:59 pm
I tried, not succeded so far, to offer “exactly” the same down here in Geneva, Switzerland.
We can offer also fast access to the Alps, for skiing also!
So , thank you Carsonified, to help us as well ;-)
If someone is interested for half the price!?
The only difference, would be the 24hours access, which would be reduced to “normal” office hours with some possible exception!
Best, Roro, write to easygiga ((at)) gmail.com
Cesar Troo
# January 7, 2009 - 8:30 pm
That has been done from far far time ago in Bogota. And its way more inexpensive:
http://virtualoffices.regus.com.co/locations/CO/Bogota/BogotaWorldTradeCentre.htm?tab=pricing
Jaan Orvet
# January 7, 2009 - 9:12 pm
@Grant – I get the impression that despite the tough times it’s a good time to be a Carsonified employee.
They have a boss who is smart enough to make the moves needed to keep the business a float. Renting out desks means they will get interesting new people sitting with them which brings ideas and new points of view, in addition to some money. And on top of that they work on the best events in the business.
Why is that a bad thing?
Jaan Orvet
# January 7, 2009 - 9:22 pm
Oups, these didn’t make it in to my previous comment.
Some coworking links that may be of interest.
This wiki has lots of tips on how to start and joining a cowo space and links to spaces around the world:
http://coworking.pbwiki.com/
My personal favorite is http://citizenspace.us/ where I am fortunate enough to work out of on occasion.
James McDonald
# January 8, 2009 - 12:04 am
Dayumm :( Looks amazing. Great offer guys! I just wished I lived a bit closer, unless your willing to let me rent out a beanbag as a bed? Hehe!
Good luck guys and I hope i’ll be a part of the Carsonified team one day :p
J x
Neil Thomas
# January 8, 2009 - 9:20 am
@James – I suppose you can as the contract will allow you 24 hour access. Lol.
Great idea Carsonified! :)
Jim Mortleman
# January 8, 2009 - 9:57 am
Another great idea, Ryan! If I was down in Bath, I’d jump at it like a shot.
Ryan
# January 8, 2009 - 3:23 pm
@Jaan – thanks for sticking up for us :)
Touhey
# January 8, 2009 - 5:55 pm
I was just reading about Hyper Island (design school in Sweden) doing this for companies… offering space within the schools creative environment for employees to work and “become inspired”. I’m all for it and hope it’s a trend that catches on!
James
# January 9, 2009 - 9:03 am
That’s a great idea, good thinking Ryan
Liam
# January 9, 2009 - 1:03 pm
Very enterprising – nice to see the desks of the employees you recently fired aren’t just gathering dust :)
Steven Habex
# January 13, 2009 - 11:03 am
Looks interesting, we set up the same concept in Hasselt (Belgium) a few weeks ago (http://www.zuivelmarkt19.be). Our office itself is quite a bit smaller, but in my opinion the general feeling is way more comfortable/less crowded.
Anyhow, there are very big advantages working in an environment with co-entrepreneurs, really hope this concept will become more widely accepted.
Jack Burton
# January 13, 2009 - 4:17 pm
You guys are definitely clearing some runway arent you! Nothing is actually FREE as you seem to be claiming? Your space looks a little cramped and dumpy to me. Also i feel the only idiots willing to drop 500 quid a month on a desk with you are aspiring Carsonified wannabes.
Good luck to them.