Co-working space for SMEs

Bristol Spaceworks, a social enterprise company which serves small and local businesses, has acquired a co-working facility on Wilder Street.

The new premises, Redbrick House, enables the company to provide a four-floor co-working space for freelancers, start-ups and small businesses in the city. The site has desks, studio spaces, meeting rooms and a “break-out area”.

“We’re very happy to have acquired Redbrick House and the existing co-working business,” said chief executive of Bristol Spaceworks, Matthew Johnstone.

“It offers a new dimension to our current business centres, with flexible and affordable options for both solo and interactive working.”

Community and operations manager Amie Thompson will continue working at Redbrick House along with her colleague Yasmin Qureshi.

She said: “Redbrick House is a fantastic space flooded with natural light and has always had a really friendly, sociable feel.”

A new shared working space is a great thing for any urban area, so it is fantastic that this Bristol co-working premises has come under the control of such a local-minded business. However, there are boring elements to using this kind of space which need to be addressed or businesses will run into problems!

Co-working spaces are usually associated with freelancers and the self-employed, but they can also be lifesavers for remote workers. Working from home just doesn’t suit everyone, as it blurs the boundaries between work-time and home-time to a degree that some people find unhelpful.

A unique city-centre co-working space like this would definitely be perfect for remote workers to create that distance between their home-selves and their work-selves, and so become more productive and satisfied.

Our Self-Service Module (SSM) enables employees to clock themselves in and out from an internet browser or a mobile app, as well as allowing them to request holidays and register doctor appointments.

Most importantly for sceptical business owners, if employees use the mobile phone app version of this module, their movements can be tracked through GPS and plotted onto a map. 

For more information about this remote worker management system, please get in touch today!