Valley.Works

03/17/2020

A message to our members & community: Many coworking spaces in Vermont, and across the country, are struggling this week to decide how to proceed, while protecting the health and well being of our community, and keeping resources available and accessible. All while longtime coworking members are suddenly faced with childcare challenges, and our neighbors and friends are suddenly working remotely for the first time.

For the time being: I have decided to keep Valley.Works open to current members only. I will be temporarily moving everyone to dedicated assigned workstations. Visitors are not allowed in the building, this includes friends, spouses, housemates, children, and even dogs. I'm very sorry about this, one of the best and most beautiful things about V.W is the sense of openness and commitment to being a family friendly environment.

I ask you to strictly abide by these rules until further notice in order to make it possible for me to keep V.W open and available to "get to work".

While members are at Valley.Works, please maintain extremely careful personal and workplace hygiene, and honor social distancing guidelines: stay 6 feet away from other individuals, do not hug or shake hands, clean any shared items before and after using them, including; cooking utensils, coffee mugs, pens, etc. Cleanliness is no longer just polite, but essential. Remember to clean your desks and chairs everyday before you leave, and please clean shared kitchen items thoroughly as soon as you are finished using them.

You can learn more about current mitigation guidelines in , and about generally at the Vermont Department of Health's website or by calling 2-1-1:

The 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is a new virus that causes respiratory illness in people and can spread from person-to-person, although it's not clear how easily this happens.

03/08/2020

"Even on the smaller scale of Vermont’s rural communities, this should hold true. What would bring me to work at a co-working space but the ability to walk about, to pick up lunch from a nearby cafe, to interact with other locals, to bounce ideas off of office mates, to pop into a general store before driving home. To feel like an integrated part of a community rather than a rider aboard some self-contained, office park spaceship. Or a hermit in my own home."

Words by Liz Schroeter Courtney Photography by Dylan Griffin “As more remote workers migrate to the Green Mountains, a new industry is starting to bloom in Vermont: co-working spaces.”

09/06/2019

I IMPLORE YOU to vote for my question for the next episode of Brave Little State on Vermont Public Radio! Are ski resorts good for ? (Taxes, wages, tourism, real estate) VOTE VOTE VOTE ⛄️⛷🏂🏠🏚🗻💸

What if you could decide what stories Vermont Public Radio should be covering, before they're even assigned? That's the idea behind Brave Little

08/16/2019

Free workshop for small business owners interested in offering employee benefits: : Benefits - CWE VT - Aug 21, Q&A Discussions for Curious Business Owners

https://www.cweonline.org/About-CWE/News/Article-Detail/ArticleId/1403/-AskMeAnything-Benefits-CWE-VT-Aug-2

Q&A on offering work perks as a small company.  8/21

08/15/2019

A 2017 Gallup poll reported that 43% of employed Americans had spent at least some time working remotely, and US Census data released in 2018 reported 5.2% of U.S. workers being based entirely at home.

A study found that “work from anywhere” policies increased productivity.

08/02/2019

Everybody wave 👋

08/02/2019

TGIF 💙🍻

08/01/2019

A beautiful day in the neighborhood

08/01/2019

Remote workers make better teammates 🥰

Research shows that office workers cannot concentrate at their desks.

07/29/2019

Coworking spaces with a shorter commute to home and daycare, and efficient comfortable lactation spaces can ease the return to work for breastfeeding moms:

For women concerned with how they’ll balance returning to the workplace and being a new mom, below is a list of coworking spaces, free resources, and products striving to make life easier.

07/28/2019

The future is now.

One way to reduce traffic and the number of hours workers spend commuting is to have more people work from home more often.

07/26/2019

‪Take a seat, monthly memberships at our centrally located coworking space start at $90 a month ValleyWorks.org ‬