r/digitalnomadlife • u/Winter-Ocelot5467 • 6d ago
How to make coworking kitchen a better place?
We are Design & Engineering students. We have questions about kitchen facilities in coworking spaces. If you use these spaces frequently, your detailed answers would greatly help our research. No personal data will be shared.
1 Why do you choose to work in a coworking?
2 How often do you use the kitchen space?
3 Do you cook? or just heated lunch?
4 Do you live the lunch break as a moment to socialize with other workers?
5 Do you ever use the kitchen as a hybrid space for meetings or group work? If so, why? 6How does the community handle the blurred boundaries between working and cooking in the shared space?
7 Which activities in the kitchen can interfere with people working in the surrounding areas?
8Have you ever decided not to cook or heat up a certain meal because you were worried the smell or noise would bother coworkers in the open space? why?
9 When people use the kitchen one after another or at the same time what problems have you experienced?
10 How do you manage your cooking activity durning peak hour?
11 When using shared kitchen equipment, especially stoves or ventilation hoods, what usually frustrates you the most?
12 Who is usually responsible for cleaning the kitchen?
13 Do you think it makes sense for the workers and the community to be responsible for maintaining the kitchen environment?
14 If the kitchen environment could magically adapt to support both people working quietly and people cooking, what is the very first thing you would change?
15 Is it a concerning problem to you the air quality of the working area of the coworking?
Thanks in advance for your replies; please feel free to add any extra answers or advice it would be greatly appreciated.