CoWorking in Central Iowa

With the opening of the “Impromptu Studio” by our friends and fellow NIEC members Daniel Shipton and Abbie Shipton, there is quite a buzz around Central Iowa about the concept of “Coworking”. The Des Moines Business Record published a feature article just recently that you can find in the “Files” section at www.new-iowa.biz.

This trend in use of shared office spaces is a relatively new practice where individual workers or even very small companies with only a handful of employees rent office space that is shared with other individuals in similar situations.

Rather than enduring the isolation of a home office or guiltily sipping lattes while draining free Wi-Fi at a local coffee shop; small business owners working out of a home office, freelancers and other telecommuters can rent inexpensive office space by the month (and sometimes the day) with full access not only to a range of office services, but also a community of other people just like themselves.

So, is this a concept that has market appeal here in Greater Des Moines?

With this question in mind, we constructed a survey that will help us to evaluate the Central Iowa market for “coworkng” and answer some of our basic questions.

Please take a few minutes and give us your responses to the survey.

Just click on the monkey!