On 05-Jan-17 11:05 AM, Greg Troxel wrote:
Tom Pfeifer <t.pfei...@computer.org> writes:
Pro amenity
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- not all coworking spaces need to be offices, and the current wiki
definition does not demand this, it just says "where people can work".
Indeed I know a do-it-yourself carpentry where you can bring your wood
and use the machinery provided to finish your own furniture. Would
that be a coworking space as well?
That is not a coworking space. It is a maker space or hobby shop.
There are also places you can brew beer, but those tend to be fee for
service by the hour/batch, rather than a place you belong longer-term.
Arguably, if the coworking space intened to accomodate professional
carpenters who worked for different companies, maybe that would be
coworking. But really coworking is about something that feels like an
office with coworkers and support services, but is shared by poeple that
work for different companies or are perhaps self-employed. To me, a
core part of coworking space is that most(?) of the people using it view
it as the physical location of their main employment.
So cowork can only be done in an office?
From wikipedia "a style ofwork <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Employment> that involves a
shared working environment, often anoffice <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office>, and
independent activity."
" is also the social gathering of a group of people who are still working
independently"
That would indicate it is not solely an office activity? And no necessarily
work ... but a 'social gathering'?! Wikipedia!
cowork is not in my dictionary ..
but on the oxford dic. website I find co-work
"The use of an office or other working environment by people who are
self-employed or working for different employers, typically so as to
share equipment, ideas, and knowledge: /‘the whole idea of co-working is to bring bright, creative people
together and let the ideas collide’"/
//
Note the "other working environment"//and no 'social gathering'.
/
/
That said, I don't care if coworking is amenity or office. Arguably
it's an amenity aimed at businesses/consultants, who then have an
office= within the coworking space. But I think the idea that a hobby
place with shared tools can be called coworking is off base, at least in
the en_US sense of coworking.
Work is done for payment.
Hobbies are done for enjoyment, usually with no payment.
I think that is the difference here .. is the word 'work'.
I think the 'cowork' (or 'co-work') is too new and unfamiliar for me to comment
further.
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