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  • A plain brick building in a small downtown has a window decal that says “Caldwell Workspace: create, connect, work your way” Next door is an ornate brick building from the late 1800s.
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    Boost your co-working space with social hours

    ByBecky McCray December 5, 2024December 2, 2024

    When I visited Caldwell, Kansas, the manager of the co-working site said they had filled their private offices, but struggled to attract day users. People who work from home like working from home. They don’t want a full time office, so they said they don’t want to use the coworking space. How can the coworking…

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    community | economic development | rural | trends | workforce | youth

    3 Major factors in rural remote work: incentives, flexible workspaces, and a sense of community

    ByBecky McCray June 6, 2022June 6, 2022

    Remote work will dominate the future small town workforce Your current residents Your current small town residents will increasingly work from home or remotely. Gallup looked at jobs that could be done remotely and the locations where workers actually did them. Four times as many workers will work remotely going forward, compared to the number…

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  • Make extra money from extra workspace: co-working and 3rd workplaces in small towns
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    Make extra money from extra workspace: co-working and 3rd workplaces in small towns

    ByBecky McCray March 28, 2022March 25, 2023

      With more people working remotely, more people are working from places that are neither their offices or their homes. Cue the rise of the Third Workplace. You may remember “third places” as places you hangout that aren’t home and aren’t work. Coffee shops, bars and places like that. “Third workplaces” are places you work…

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