How Female Centric Coworking Spaces Improve Working Environment for Women?

How Female Centric Coworking Spaces Help Improve The Working Environment For Women Employees?

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Coworking space for women helps bridge the gender gap by supporting careers affected by societal pressures and workplace inequality.

4 Top Benefits of Coworking Space for Women Employees

  1. Make Workplaces More Accessible
  2. Fewer Distractions
  3. Lower Risk of Harassment
  4. Makes Networking Easier

 

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The Office Pass (TOP) Coworking Space in Noida

1. Make Workplaces More Accessible

When women look for jobs, they don’t consider only the position and the salary. They’re also looking at how far the office is from their home, how long it will take them to commute, how safe the neighbourhood is, etc. 

Many women prefer not to travel alone late in the evenings. Given the high prices of commercial real estate in metro cities, small and mid-sized companies are likely to have offices away from the central business sector. 

Having the option to work from a coworking space makes it easier for women to build a career. By taking up a seat at a coworking space near home, women cut down on commute time and can participate more actively in the organization. A recent survey showed that 48% of women look for work styles with an easier commute.

Make Workplaces More Accessible

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It is also easier for companies to find affordable coworking spaces on main roads and close to metro stations than it is for them to find an independent office in similar places. Thus, they are safer spaces for women who need to work late hours. 

2. Fewer Distractions

As companies move to a hybrid work culture, it has come to light that working from home is harder for women employees as compared to male employees. A study found that working women with young children had to spend five additional hours each day on household responsibilities during this time. Working from home is a challenge for working women as they need to balance the responsibilities of their job with making sure the children have eaten, the maid has done her chores, etc. 

A coworking environment lets them work closer to their homes while being a professional space free from domestic distractions. Thus, they can stay focussed on their professional responsibilities and maintain a better balance between their work and personal life. 

3. Lower Risk of Harassment

Unfortunately, women face a higher risk of harassment in the office as compared to men. It may not always be overt and it affects their confidence in the workplace. Women face harassment in terms of sexism, offensive slurs, attacks on their professional character, physical assaults, ageism, political attacks, etc. 

Lower Risk of Harassment

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One of the key benefits of choosing a women-centric space for coworking for women is that these spaces are relatively safer and free from gender-based politics. Women feel secure and supported by the people around them. They are more confident in speaking their minds and can contribute more actively in discussions.  

Being surrounded by other women also gives women employees the security of being in a place where they are understood. Along with their professional challenges, they feel able to talk about their personal challenges that may be slowing down their career. For example, women with young children can get recommendations for good childcare help from other women in the coworking space.

4. Makes Networking Easier

Networking is a critical part of climbing the corporate ladder. Unfortunately, women have fewer opportunities to network and hence are less likely to build a strong professional network. Why- for many reasons including the need to leave the office early enough to get home in time for them to take on household responsibilities. It’s also because they may not feel safe attending networking events on their own. 

Makes Networking Easier

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Women-centric coworking spaces address both these issues to make professional networking easier. The workspaces are closer to their home and hence commute is reduced. This makes it possible to attend networking events after work without having it affect their time at home. Since the coworking spaces hold networking events in the workspace, women also feel safer attending these events. Coworking spaces also regularly organize workshops which are great places to network with other people working from the same space.

In Conclusion

Women are not only equally talented to men but are also more empathetic and are believed to have a higher emotional intelligence quotient. They are good communicators, supportive leaders and sense opportunities. To experience these benefits of working for women, corporates must take necessary measures to make them feel valued. Choosing a hybrid work culture where women can work from coworking units is a big step in this direction. 

The Office Pass (TOP) has coworking spaces in Noida, Gurgaon and South Delhi. These workspaces are well connected by main roads and the metro. With a strong focus on gender inclusivity and professional behaviour, these spaces are ideal for women employees. To know more, reach out to us at 08999 828282.

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Fixed Or Flexible Seats In A Coworking Space: Which One Suits Your Business The Most?

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So, you’ve decided to make the switch from a traditional office space to a coworking office. The benefits of a coworking space extend far beyond lowering costs. You don’t need to be concerned with day-to-day office administrative work, your team can work from a space closer to their home, networking becomes much easier and so on. To maximise these coworking benefits of small and mid-size businesses, you need to not only choose the right coworking space, you also need to find an arrangement that suits your business. 

Coworking spaces typically follow two models – fixed seats and flexible seats. Let’s look at how to find the model that works best for you.

What Are Fixed Seats in a Coworking space?

A fixed seat or dedicated seat plan is one where a particular desk is set aside for you as long as you are working from the coworking space. It gives you a sense of ownership over the space and you don’t need to spend time looking for a space to work from every morning. 

What Are Flexible Seats in a Coworking space?

A flexible seat or hot seat plan is one in which you don’t have a fixed place to work from. You can claim any unoccupied desk as your own – for that day. Flexible desks give you the freedom to work beside new people every day. 

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Choosing The Right Coworking Arrangement For You

Choosing the right model for your business is all about weighing the pros and cons of fixed and flexible seats against your needs.

1. When You Have A Very Tight Budget

One of the key reasons for the popularity of coworking spaces among small businesses is the lower costs as compared to running an independent office. Choosing the right coworking arrangement can help you cut down costs even further. Flexible seats are typically priced 10-15% lower than fixed seats. These seats can also be booked on a per-day basis while fixed seats must be booked for a longer period of time. 

2. When You Want To Network

Coworking culture is all about networking. You never know when the person sitting next to you may help you brainstorm a new idea or collaborate with you on a design or even help you expand your audience by cross-promoting your product. 

If your business is in its growing stage and you want to network more, flexible desks are the ideal solution. You get to work with new people every day. Thus, every day becomes a new opportunity to find collaborators. 

However, if your business is still in its initial stages and you’re working on fine tuning details, you may not benefit as much from networking. You might be looking for a desk where you can focus and work during work hours and of course, network with people when you take a break. In such instances, a fixed desk is a better option. When you’re working, distractions are minimal and you can still experience the networking benefits of coworking in common spaces and during workshops and events.

3. When You Like Having Control Over Your Workspace

Some people thrive on regularity while others need every day to be different. If you like having things in their place and a regular schedule, a fixed desk would be the best choice. Every morning when you walk into the coworking space, you know your desk is going to be waiting for you. You know the people you’re going to be working beside and can build longer relationships.

With flexible seating, you never know what to expect. These seats are available on a first-come, first-served basis. One day you may find a great desk by the window but the next day, the only desk available may be in the center of the room.

4. When You Need Space For Your Team To Work Together

The popularity of coworking for mid-size companies is growing. It’s not just freelancers and entrepreneurs looking for coworking space. As the number of people wanting to work in coworking spaces increases, so are the sizes of these offices. Today, you can easily find a coworking office space with 250 or more desks. Thus, small and mid-sized businesses can have their entire team working from one coworking space. 

When You Need Space For Your Team To Work Together

When you have a team working in the same office, you probably want them to be able to sit next to each other. If you were to pick a flexible seating option, you might not be able to find space for all your team members to sit together every day. Worse, there may be days when there are only 9 vacant desks but you need 12. 

Thus, fixed desk plans are the best choice. When you book a set of dedicated seats, you are assured of a semi-private space where your team can work together every day without any hindrance.

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5. When You Want A Flexible Lease Choice

If you’re not going to be using the coworking space every day, a flexible seating model will be more cost-effective for you. Fixed seats have to be booked for a longer period while flexible seats can be booked on a per-day basis. So, if your office is running on hybrid mode where you work remotely for part of the week and in the central office for the other half, choosing a flexible seat plan will help balance costs.

In Conclusion

When it comes to coworking, in some cases, it’s fixed seats that will benefit a business and in others, flexibility is the better choice. You need to consider your budget, the size of your team, how often you will be working from a coworking space and other such factors before signing a contract. To know more about the fixed and flexible seat arrangements available at The Office Pass (TOP), contact us at 08999 828282.

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TOP TALKS: Ankit Khanna, Co Founder of Suraasa Teacher First

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Under the founder speak initiative of The Office Pass (TOP) christened #TOPTALKS, we are pleased to share the story of Ankit Khanna, Cofounder & CTO, Suraasa. Ankit & his team has been associated with TOP Coworking space for over 2 years. Suraasa helps teachers in meeting skill and certification requirements by virtue of its courses. Once ready, teachers are helped to get selected for Domestic and International teaching jobs and the local teaching approvals for the target countries. In this post, Ankit shares his experience of building and scaling the company.

Suraasa Team

Q. Tell us something about you (education & experience) and the business you started 

A. An Alumni of the National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar, Ankit completed his engineering in 2011. He laid the foundation of technology development at Suraasa. A keen researcher in AI, data science, and a flair for statistics and economics, he has implemented data-driven decision-making and growth hacking in various domains and industries.

Ankit started his career with procurement research at Beroe-inc, helping multiple Fortune 500 companies with predictive data modeling and advising their energy portfolio management. He later joined The Smart Cube, where he helped leading pharmaceutical and manufacturing companies with process re-engineering, market entry strategy, and cost modeling for BCCS and LCCS.

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Before building Suraasa, Ankit co-founded Les Transformations Learning, which was awarded as Best K-12 Teacher Training Institution of India multiple times. The company was credited with training 75,000+ teachers across 21 states of India.

With a goal to make teacher education accessible and bring the teaching resources to the palms of every teacher, Ankit founded Suraasa and leads the technology innovation, product design, and data science.

The vision of Suraasa’s team is to build the world’s largest network of highly skilled teachers by enabling career mentorship, pedagogy training, and global job opportunities for teachers.

Ankit believes that the right to education is pivoted on access to the right educators and he aims to create the world’s largest network of highly skilled teachers at Suraasa.

Q. How old is your company and how did you think of this concept? What problem are you trying to solve? 

A. Having trained and researched 75,000 teachers across 1500 schools covering 100+ cities and 21 states of India and winning lots of awards including “India’s Best K-12 Teacher Training Company” award in 2015, 2016, 2017, we came across some critical gaps which no one spoke about.

We asked why do teachers not grow in their careers just like people do in other careers? Why are teachers increasingly reporting high stress at work? Why do they quit teaching? Do they not receive proper mentorship or are they unaware of the skills that schools are looking for to help the teachers progress?

At the same time, we would often hear visionary school leaders spending months in search of high-quality teachers, and yet not finding the right candidates, despite offering high pay packages.

This sparked the idea for Suraasa, a tech-enabled upskilling platform for Teachers’ Career Growth. We decided to focus our efforts on researching and developing result-oriented upskilling programmes for educators at all stages of their careers, from a teacher to a principal.

Hence, Suraasa was created in 2017 with an aim to become an evolutionary catalyst in the field of K-12 Education & Child Development by bringing 360-degree transformation in teacher education.

Q. What is your business model (how do you make money)? Would be great if you can share some actual data like revenue growth ( QoQ or YoY), active user / customers, new initiatives etc

A. We retail outcome-linked upskilling programs directly to the teachers (B2C), including our marquee program PgCTL, which comes with an International Diploma in Teaching. Our teachers generally receive multiple job offers, international job opportunities, fast promotions saving them decades in their career journey, and accolades from students, parents, peers and school leaders.

We developed our MVP in India but tested it internationally first with teachers from 40 nationalities. Last year in 2021, we started retailing in India, and am happy to share that we are growing at an astonishing pace. For instance, we booked 55% MoM revenue growth in March 2022 alone.

Q. Top 3 steps taken by you to attract and retain talent? Explain how you develop / nurture talent in the company?

  1. Our company has a value system where we try to hire people whose internalised values match the three core values of Suraasa:
    1. Integrity
    2. Ethics
    3. Unconditional Support
  2. We provide a supportive, ego-free environment to our employees where their growth and development is an important priority for us. We believe that people would perform their best when they see themselves growing along with the organisation.
  3. We try to ensure that our employees experience that growth with us by maintaining a consistent evaluation and appraisal system.

Q. Tell us about your workspace (own office, coworking office, managed office or anything else like home office or hybrid working environment) and the reason for opting for them 

A. Our staff is spread across the country and in view of the pandemic we have provided our employees in the NCR with an option to work remotely or from the office. We have partnered with The Office Pass (TOP) to provide the employees, who wish to work from office, a warm and easily accessible workspace. The reason for choosing The Office Pass (TOP) for our employees was its location and the support received by the TOP team.

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Q. What do you like to do in your free time 

A. When I am not working, I like to learn new technologies or meet my Friends. I like to read and do multiple courses related to my domain, in essence, ed-tech. Currently, I have been researching the metaverse and I plan to expand Suraasa to the metaverse in the near future, as well.

Q. Tell us about your experience with The Office Pass (TOP) 

A. After the first lockdown ended, we wanted to reopen office for our employees and try hybrid model for work, this is when I had the pleasure to connect with TOP, especially Nikhil Madan. A supposed 15 minute meeting changed into a 2 hour long discussion and I knew that Nikhil is a person with Vision and passion for creating value for everyone. The experience thereon has been nothing short of fulfilling. TOP has helped us create a distributed hybrid model where our employees can choose to go to a TOP workspace near them. The amenities, support on the smallest things and fast resolutions is a core strength to TOP operations. TOP is an all weather partner for us and I would give my highest recommendation to TOP for standing the ground with us.

We thank Ankit for sparing time for this interaction with TOP.

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TOP signs Preferred Square Analytics for a Managed Office in Gurgaon

The Office Pass (TOP) signs Preferred Square Analytics for a Managed Office in Gurgaon

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Neighbourhood Coworking operator The Office Pass (TOP), which currently runs 11 Coworking Offices in Delhi-NCR has signed Preferred Square Analytics (PSA), a boutique Management Consulting and financial advisory firm for a Managed Office in Gurgaon. TOP has set-up this Managed Office at its newly launched 10,000 SqFt facilities in Vatika Towers on the prestigious Golf Course Road.

Managed offices are workspace-as-a-service solutions that are agile and cost-effective. These come with the added benefit of customisation, control and security of a traditional lease.

TOP & PSA teams participate in the puja ceremony to mark the opening of new office

Commenting on this arrangement, Mr. Nikhil Madan, Co-founder, The Office Pass (TOP) said, “We are elated on this launch not only because we now have the maximum number of Coworking & Managed Offices in Delhi NCR but also to witness the superlative growth of PSA. They joined TOP Coworking in 2017 when they were just two people. Today they have moved into a fully customized Managed Office space. Many congratulations to the PSA team and special thanks to Pulkit for trusting us with the business.”

PSA Employees and Their Families in Puja Ceremony
PSA employees and their families participate in the puja ceremony to mark the opening of new office

As companies call their workforce back to offices in a hybrid format, they need to recalibrate office spaces and the associated costs. These, however, remain a concern for occupiers. Hence, opting for flexible workspaces and especially a tailor-made Managed Office with minimal CAPEX, comprehensive services, privacy and exclusivity is the perfect office solution for them.

Pulkit Goel, Founder, Preferred Square Analytics said, “We are excited to move into our new space. Nowadays, there are a lot of options when a company needs an office space. For Preferred Square Analytics (PSA), TOP was the best choice since it was the right cultural fit for us, with founders who are highly approachable, and the working environment that is vibrant and flexible with quality infrastructure. Just what we were looking for”.

Top and PSA Teams
TOP and PSA teams

TOP is a leading Coworking company in India that runs offices across Gurgaon, Noida and Delhi. Over 100 mid to large size companies are using TOP Coworking and Managed offices. TOP plans to open over 50 offices over the next 2 years with presence in multiple cities across India.

Pulkit further adds, “TOP and PSA took baby steps together in 2017 and have been instrumental in each other’s growth since, and our relationship has been more friendly than professional. Preferred Square had a humble beginning with TOP renting out just two seats at their only 50-seater coworking office at Sohna Road. TOP now manages this new and exclusive office space for PSA on the Golf Course Road, one of Gurugram’s most exclusive areas. They have also evolved as one of the largest networks of Coworking Spaces, Shared Offices & Managed Offices in Gurgaon.”

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