Work on the go: coworking in the Camaraderie in Toronto, Canada {reader travel tip}

Toronto is the Canadian business metropolis with 2,5 million inhabitants and has the sixth largest stock exchange in the world Welt. No wonder, then, that there are also a whole range of coworking spaces here: So this time I took a close look at two: a “traditional” one and an artist community.

Appropriateness instead of ambience #

The Camaraderie is a typical Coworking Space: Central location not far from the main station and the Eaton Center east of the Young Street, which divides Torontos center into an east and west part, in a listed building. The staircase upstairs is narrow, steep and covered with green carpet, to the coworkingspace itself leads a side door.

The offices themselves are more convincing because of their practicality than their special ambience, but I really like that sympathisch. The Camaraderie offers 15 desk places on two floors and four additional separate offices and one meeting room. Small shelves are available for storage.

There is WiFi and Ethernet, a color printer and if you need a telephone, you can bring some with you. There is no such thing as a quiet conversation here Problem, only those who want to make longer, louder or private calls, for example, are asked to go to the printer room.

Flexibility is a priority

What I really like here is the flexibility with which you can use the workplaces. For example, the chairs: “Some prefer hard chairs, others ergonomic office chairs - we offer something for every need,” explains founder Rachel Young.

The separate offices, however, are part of whole Companys rented, who use their own furniture, but do not want to care about the infrastructure such as toilet paper or printer toner, but sometimes bring their own wireless router.

Felxibles price model

The price model is also flexible: for one day you pay 25 Canadian dollars per day, who wants to come part-time, ie 10 days a month, pays 200 dollars. Full time, for the whole month you pay 325 dollars.

Who keeps his things in the Office leave and lock in desk base cabinets pays for a permanent full-timeWorkplace $347 a month. The price includes coffee, use of the printer, WLAN and use of the meeting room for one hour a day. There is one for that Online-booking-System.

The Coworking-Space is open from Monday to Friday 9-18. Anyone who wants to get outside these opening hours can get a key for which he only pays the deposit.

Who works here?

On average, 28 people work here, mostly full-time, part-time or in separate offices. And on average people stay three months – says Rachel. The customers are typical coworking workers:

Especially people from IT-area, webDeveloper, PR people, event planners, editors, journalists, market researchers or NGOs. But the Canadian branch of a larger French company is also located here.

International and multicultural

This is also the right keyword: overall, the coworking space seems a lot more international than many offices I have visited so far. This is typical of multicultural Canada: people from England, France, Sweden, India - and, of course, Canada.

The name is also multicultural: Camaraderie stands for community and camaraderie in both English and French. Rachel and her co-founder Wayne Lee wanted it clear make that it's not just about work, but also about a group feeling and at the same time a name that works in both Canadian languages.

Foundation from the need

The two themselves are only English speaking. The Idea came to the two freelancers because after 10 years they were fed up with working at home or in a coffee shop: “At home we just feel the covers Head fallen, the coffee is too distracting,” says founder Rachel, pictured here at her workplace in the Camaraderie. So another one had to Solution here.

Wayne, who had previously worked in a coworking space, then discovered the premises of the Camaraderie. When the old coworking space was closed, the two decided to continue it themselves.

Only the community, then the foundation

They saved for over a year Money and built a community. In so-called town hallMeetings, which they held in cafes and restaurants, they spoke to the people personally about what they were looking for: usually cheap jobs and collaborative work.

They also used Twitter and Facebook for dissemination and launched the website and blog of their own early on. However, the two have deliberately avoided classic advertising.

Expansion

In February 2010, the two opened with a floor, but due to the success, but soon another to rent. The minimum rental period of two months for full-time rental could soon be reduced to one month.

But of course there is also competition. Last year, five more coworking spaces opened in Toronto – the two own some of them Contact , not to others. Overall, however, Rachel considers the community to be an important aspect of coworking:

International Exchange

Camaraderie is also part of the Globaly Coworking Visa Program, which includes 200 Coworking Spaces worldwide. Anyone who works permanently in one of these offices can work free of charge when traveling in one of the other coworking spaces.

The two are still working Founders also in their old jobs: Rachel is an event planner, Wayne is an app developer. But that could change soon, "if things continue to go well," says Rachel.

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