help us understand coworking as the future of the workplace!

[Gretchen Spreitzer]

Dear Members,

 

I am a professor at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.  I recently introduced myself to the moderators of this group and have received their support for an academic study I am leading on understanding the relationship between coworking and thriving at work.  My colleagues and I have recently developed an online survey that is meant to be taken by members of your coworking communities. It provides a voice for them to share their coworking experience with our research team.  My hope is that you will consider distributing this survey to your members.

 

We understand that your members are busy professionals, and we know that you do your best to shield them from unnecessary outside solicitations.  Our study is noncommercial and, instead, is aimed at building an awareness and understanding of the broader coworking movement within our field of management and organizational studies.  In short, we want to help promote the coworking movement by building a long-term understanding of the underlying social mechanisms that enable people to thrive because of it.

 

The survey is designed to take between 10-15 minutes to complete.  As a small thank you for helping us spread the word about our survey to your members, the first 50 coworking communities that provide us with at least 10 member survey responses will be provided with a $75 gift card to Seamless, which you can use to provide food or other snacks to your members.  If Seamless is not available in your area, we will happily provide you with a gift card of equal value to something comparable in your area so that you can treat your members on us.

 

If you are willing to participate in our research efforts, please contact me at spre...@umich.edu, and my colleagues and I will provide you with additional information about the survey and how to participate.  Additional information can be found here:  http://sitemaker.umich.edu/coworking_survey.

 

Thank you.

 

Gretchen Spreitzer

Ross School of Business

The University of Michigan

 

[Craig Baute - Creative Density Coworking]

Thanks for posting this Gretchen. I'll take the survey and pass it around to our members this week.

Craig

[Gretchen Spreitzer]

You are wonderful Craig!

On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 12:14 PM, Craig Baute - Creative Density Coworking <bau...@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks for posting this Gretchen. I'll take the survey and pass it around to our members this week.

Craig

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[Jacob Sayles]

This sounds like a great study and I'm excited to see where it goes.  I'd love to see more of this kind of thing.  It gives me an opportunity to show to our members that we are part of something bigger and invite them to participate.  We're in!  

Jacob

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[Nicolas Bergé]

As we are too !

Thank you for this.

Nicolas Bergé

Les Satellites

[Nicolas Bergé]

But we're already stuck at the first page of the survey for not being from the US...

Is there a way non-US coworking communities participate to this survey ? Would be great...

Nicolas Bergé

Les Satellites

[Gretchen Spreitzer]

Hello Nicolas,

You are right that the survey is designed for coworkers in the U.S. but we'd still love to have members in your coworking space complete the survey if you like (though we don't have the capability to offer the same treat to international coworking spaces --sorry!).  The location questions are "soft required" - meaning that SurveyGizmo will prompt the user before advancing to the next page to complete a skipped question.  However, if you try again to click to the next page, it will allow you to do so.  In the open ended comment at the end of the survey, you can provide information on what country you are working in. 

Thanks Nicolas for your support of our work! Have a great day!

Nicolas Bergé

Les Satellites

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[Nicolas Bergé]

Ah great. I stopped at the first "obstacle". Thank you Gretchen.

And don't worry, I'm not here for the treat. But, like Jacob said, for the bigger thing.

Cheers.

Nicolas Bergé

Les Satellites

[Fabrizio Tarará]

This is great and we invite you to Howell anytime you would like to check out our new coworking space! We are all in and I will spread the word!

Fabrizio

Frontal Lobe

517.618.9506

110 E Grand River Ave, Howell, MI 48843
www.WorkFrontalLobe.com

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[Gretchen Spreitzer]

Thank you so much Fabrizio!  Cool to know there is a new coworking space right in Howell!  I will definitely stop in if I get up your way.

We are really pleased to have you part of the study. Pete, can you make sure Fabrizio has everything he needs for the survey?

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[Craig Baute - Creative Density Coworking]

Creative Density is participating. I look forward to the results.

Craig