My Day Office for the Home-based Workers-III
The five employees at Delicious Monster work from the Zoka coffeehouse near University Village in Seattle. Shortly after the company was founded in March 2004, “Chief Monster” Wil Shipley and his colleagues “discovered that we were going to kill each other if we stayed cooped up in this old room in my house,” he said in an interview.
But when Shanna Brennan introduced her new business, My Day Office, it has presented a brilliant solution for people like Shipley and his colleagues. My Day Office is the new business in Seattle which aims to cater to the people who do not need, or cannot afford yet a long office lease. This fosters about a community for these “home-based” people who will be able to experience office furnitures this time compared to their dining table-turned office desks.
Shipley’s pampered employees spend up to $600 per month on drinks and food, and he saves on electricity, rent and janitor services. The baristas, who are tipped $1 for each drink, know Shipley’s favorite by heart: non-fat single splitshot iced latte in a glass.
He said that the traditional corner office, with its teak furniture and Persian carpet, is depressing. “I’m so much happier, so much more productive working with people,” he said. “The office building is kind of a construct of a different time.”
However, some workers need more quiet and privacy than coffee shops can provide, according to Brennan.
“I end up working a lot from the coffee shops, but those are getting pretty crowded,” Derek Doke said, managing member of Tamaris Properties LLC. He scouts around all day looking for investment properties for clients. Hence, he wants to be a My Day Office member when it opens.
While day offices cost $20 per hour or $99 per day according to The Regus Group, provider of outsourced office space, a membership in My Day Office will only require its members to pay their respective dues and fees, which is said to be cheaper than the others.
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