Temporary 'Office' Space

The November issue of Fast Company has an article called, Home Away From Home. It's about temporary workspaces you can use while traveling.

They highlight three different companies that are currently running spaces for this use. They all all charge, either by hour, day, or month. The spaces appear quite nice, especially the New York spaces run by Techspace, and come with perks like gyms, spas, cafeterias, videoconferencing, Starbucks, kitchens...

I think this is a good idea, but think it could be spun a bit differently as well as the current set-up. It would be interesting if you could treat it more like a collaborative, communal office space. I think the really exciting things that are happening these days are when different people or companies, get together to create something. It's great to have a place to go work in isolation if you want, but it would also be great to work in Manhattan, and decide for two days you are going to work in one of these 'collaborative offices' to get inspiration, have some discussions, and generate some new ideas by meeting different people but with a similar goal.

For it to work, it would have to be very accessible, and they would probably need to figure out another way to make money, rather than charging the 'guests'.

Piers from PSFK seems to be doing this with likemind. Check it out here.