6 things I wished were non-existent in co-working spaces.

People are increasingly choosing to start working in a co-working space. The benefits of working in a co-working are becoming more and more popular. So most of the co-working spaces see freelancers individuals or young startups.

There are some co-working spaces that accommodate less than a hundred people, they usually cater to the audiences that prefer to work alone and quietly while there are some other having the capacity of hundreds of people and they thrive to build a community of the working class having varying skill sets.

Albeit, the co-working culture is gaining popularity, people have started to face some problems and they are mostly in the workspaces that are poorly managed.

1. No schedule of shared resources — Almost every co-working gives you a partial access to the meeting rooms or the big conference hall or to an in-house gymnasium. The problem is that these meeting rooms are occupied on an ad-hoc basis which results to frequent resource conflicts. There is no easy way to know when will the conference room be free before scheduling a meeting. This by far is the biggest problem faced by the co-workspace residents.
2. No knowledge about co-workers — Socialising with your co-workers can be very crucial, it can open up a lot of possibilities for working together. This is one of the main motivations for people choosing to work in co-working spaces but at times the co-workspaces do not have a friendly culture. In such cases, one might never know what the other co-worker is up to and without that knowledge, any chance of networking or working together vanishes away.
3. Lack of a way to report issues to the manager — There can be many problems, annoying neighbours, people talking on the phone loudly or any problem related to your seat, like any electrical switches not working or a problem with your desk or the most common problem of all — internet not working on your machine. Most of the co-working spaces do not have dedicated staff members working on customer support, so people find it difficult to report an issue to the floor manager.
4. Cafeteria not up to the mark — So, you started working from a co-working space after leaving your full-time job, but you still miss the multi-facility office cafeteria don’t you? The co-working spaces usually keep a low profile while hiring staff office boys or outsourcing the in-house cafeteria and hence you might feel the need for a fully equipped cafeteria.
5. No log and history of members’ check-ins — The offices are usually equipped with biometric devices to keep the log of people coming in and out. This problem is usually faced by people who have a startup, they find it difficult to have access to the timings when their team members come and go out of the office.
6. Very less knowledge about events — Lastly, almost every co-working space organizes fun events every week or twice a month, but due to lack a proper channel of communication, a lot of people are unable to attend these events because they do not have enough information about the events.

Note to the readers: please feel free to comment if there is any other problem that you are facing working in a co-working space.