When you are in secure full-time employment it can be daunting to consider starting up your own business and walking away from the security of a stable income. When the pandemic hit, and huge waves of people were furloughed all of a sudden uncertainty became the norm. It looks as though this uncertainty gave [...]
Like many businesses we have had to adapt throughout the pandemic. Firstly, we changed the layout of our offices and reduced capacity, we increased the cleaning schedules and offered all our members additional supplies. Whilst these measures were of course necessary, we started to see a more fundamental shift towards a different kind of [...]
Fall in love with work again Yep we’re going to be cheesy and talk about love with Valentine’s Day just behind us. (More importantly in my eyes, Pancake Day is just in front of us!) Hitting the Covid wall in January with a bang, finding ways to fall in love work [...]
We are a month into lockdown 3.0, how’s everyone doing? Used to the routine by now or longing for the freedom to be able to go the supermarket twice in the same day?! All joking aside though, how are you finding the lockdown is affecting you, have you been able to adjust? In the [...]
At Desk.Space we have been proud to provide innovative co-working spaces in Sheffield. Over the years the demand increased to the point where we now have 3 separate venues. The pandemic has however, changed the way we work. In the UK co-working demand has dropped by 36% since March, with many [...]
Let’s be straight, office working has really changed. With some reports suggesting the social distancing guidelines will be with us until 2022, we need to accept the “New Normal” is here to stay, whether we want to or not. Before March we had both Hope Works and Mowbray Street full of entrepreneurs, remote working [...]
......We asked Joe at Whistle Video to tell us about his experience… The UK and Sheffield are slowly starting to return back to ‘old’ work lives in this ‘new normal’ environment. The world turned upside down in March and I don’t think any of us had any idea that it would last this [...]
Come and take a look! We are over the moon to tell you that we now have additional space for co-workers at The Krynkl. We have been working hard over the past few weeks to get everything ready. Our trusted joiner, designer and award winner furniture genius, Ollie Allen has [...]
Before the pandemic UK research was conducted by BE.Spoke and it showed that around 56% of larger companies had fewer than 10% of their team working from home. Another report conducted since the lockdown (by Willis Towers Watson) of leading UK employers, shows that 75% of the workforce are now working [...]
Since the recent changes in lock down restrictions and further updates from No 10, we decided to get our heads together and draw up some ideas of what might work for our co-workers at DS1 Mowbray Street, DS2 West Bar and DS3 Krynkl. We took the decision to close the doors for the lockdown [...]
