Scaling a Tech Company // 5 Ways Coworking Spaces Help You Thrive

Scaling a Tech Company // 5 Ways Coworking Spaces Help You Thrive

Utilizing coworking spaces makes sense for all types of small businesses and startups in the current economic environment – especially tech startups.

The same workplace activities you’d do with an open-office layout can be done in coworking spaces. Shared workspaces enable fast and easy collaboration but also let employees plug in and bear down.

There are also a lot of amenities, perks and flexible features that better meet the needs of the average tech startup worker than would a small closet-sized office leased in a mostly vacant office park.

Here are more reasons why coworking spaces would be ideal for your tech company:

A number of leading tech companies also started off from Coworking spaces

Think of Uber, Instagram, Indiegogo and Spotify, these are global start-ups that started off in coworking spaces. Other tech companies like Twiga, Branch International, mdundo also started off their operations in Nairobi Garage, a coworking space in Nairobi and one of the largest and coolest workspaces in Africa.

The fact that these successful tech companies started off in coworking spaces, this is enough motivation to set-up your company in the coworking space.

One major reason why coworking spaces are ideal for these companies is because coworking  goes hand in hand with collaboration and networking, meaning that companies can benefit from the useful connections they can establish in a community. 

Coworking does help startups scale quicker and the fact that some of the successful startups who once chose a coworking venue as their home base are now prospering multimillion corporations is genuinely inspiring.

Coworking spaces help you give a Great Impression

You can feel confident inviting prospective buyers or clients to meetings, as coworking spaces offer state-of-the-art meeting rooms and conferencing rooms that are quite affordable. In most cases members are always given meeting room credits that allow you book your meetings only when you need to.

The grounds are nicely manicured with regular landscaping, the offices are clean and orderly thanks to daily cleaning and maintenance crews, and the meeting and conference rooms are equipped with all the technology you need to project presentations and make a great impression.

Nairobi Garage also exudes the kind of startup collaboration atmosphere your clients will expect to see when they visit a tech startup workplace.

Ideal lay-outs for collaboration

Cubicle walls make sense for some industries and tasks. They eliminate distractions and put each worker in their own little world. That’s not always ideal when you’ve collected a group of specialized professionals with the intent to leverage each unique skill set towards one specific developmental goal.

Nairobi Garage has five large open coworking spaces across Nairobi and roughly over 20 meeting rooms of various sizes and layouts across the spaces. 

There are delineated and specialized areas within those larger open coworking spaces equipped with things like whiteboards or circular seating that allow for informal, fast and seamless exchanges of ideas. It’s easy to transition from focused solo work to bursts of collaboration before going back to independent work.

Tech Companies could independently replicate an environment that’s conducive to this type of fluid transition from independent work to collaboration on their own dime, but the investment can be significant. 

Chances are you’d rather invest your dollars into great team members or IP development than commercial space.

Shared workspaces like Nairobi Garage gives your team access to workplace formats designed to promote the type of workflow you want to encourage for a fraction of what you’d pay for a commercial lease.

Access to the space anytime

Workers in many tech fields often don’t have to work nine to five. Many startup workers are developing something new and don’t necessarily have to meet with clients during normal business hours, at least not all the time. 

Some tech workers may even gravitate to the field because it enables their night-owl lifestyles.

Shared workspaces can be great for those workers. The coworking spaces are open 24/7 and doors are locked with keycards or biometrics after normal business hours.

Does your team start in the afternoon and work until one or two in the morning? Not a problem at Nairobi Garage – your team members can do so with security and access to all the great amenities they’d have during the day.

With most spaces having more than one location, coworking spaces allow you to work from any space that is easily accessible to you. For instance at Nairobi Garage, you can work across all the five locations, well, terms and conditions apply.

Ideally, coworking spaces are ideal for all companies  despite the sector you are in. Coworking spaces offer a myriad of benefits to your company and helps you save a lot of costs. In fact, recent predictions show that more corporates are now opting for coworking spaces so that they can tap into these benefits.

So if you are looking for a coworking space to join. You can book a tour with us .We recently opened a new spce, Nairobi Garage // CBD.

We are currently offering free tours of the new workspace that can be booked through  join@nairobigarage.com or 0755556955. We are also offering the first month’s workspace for free for any bookings in September..