Home » Uncategorized » Page 10

Category: Uncategorized

WE are here for YOUR use!

York County is booming with courageous, caring and interesting people who have said goodbye to the 40 hour (or 60 hour) work week for a more family friendly existence, allowing us to work to live not live to work. Many of us have gone rouge and followed our passions to start businesses and explore alternative opportunities but crave the collaboration and creativity that spawns from having a work family. Especially for those of us who thrive on the inspiration and energy of others, working alone can really drain you and cause you to become stagnant.
Consider these questions …

Read more

Why every downtown needs a “student union” …

During my 10 years as a professor, I had a 300 sf office with a lounge chair, sound system and kitchenette with high ceilings and my entire collection of Maroon 5 stalking memorabilia. Yes, office wise, I was living the high-life. But most of the time you would not find me in my cushy digs … I would be camped out in DIGS (short for the DiGiorgio Campus Center), where the action was.    Read more

What happened to the cube-farm?

If you would have told me in college that at 42 I would be creating and curating a coworking community, I not only would not have believed you, I wouldn’t have known what the heck you were talking about. Like most students, I had a fairly narrow view of career possibilities. That was, until I left my hometown for the “big city” for graduate school. While also working in a corporate interiors firm, I took on research dealing with the future of collaborative work spaces, investigated personal work space needs, and created educational (design studio) environments based on these. My horizons were broadened by this and multiple trips to NeoCON, the international commercial furnishings conference and market.

Excited about the innovations in commercial furnishings, I was disheartened to find that, in the mid-90s, corporate design was still extremely hierarchical and the cube-farm Read more