If you are looking for work and home is not a good place to do it, our shared workspace in Mesa is free to use. There is no day rate, no membership and nothing to apply for. Buy a coffee and the desk is yours for the day.
We built the room for people who need somewhere to get a full day done, and people between jobs are one of the groups it is for. Here is what it offers when the job you are doing is finding the next one.
Why a desk helps
Looking for work is a lot of hours at a laptop, with nobody setting them for you. At home, those hours leak. The applications get done at the kitchen table between everything else, the day loses its shape, and it gets hard to tell when you are allowed to stop.
A desk somewhere else gives the day an edge. You arrive, you work, and you leave, and the evening is yours again. It also means spending the day in a room with other people working, which is easy to underrate until you have spent a few weeks without it.
What is here
The workspace is its own room, with full-size desks and proper chairs. There is power at nearly every seat, so a long day of applications does not end when the battery does. The WiFi is fast and free, and it handles video calls, so an online interview can happen at a desk if the room is quiet enough for it.
If you need a CV or a form printed, there is a printer in the workspace. Ask at the counter and someone will sort you out.
There is nothing to book for everyday working. Walk in, order, and sit down.
When an interview needs a door
For an interview you want to take somewhere private, the conference room has a door that closes, blinds on the window and a screen. It is a room we charge for, booked by the hour through Peerspace, and the listing shows the current rate. For most people the free desk will do. The room is there for the conversations where you would rather nobody else could hear.
There is more on setting up for a video call, and where to sit for one, in can you take a video call from a coffee shop?
A day that works
Most people who job hunt well treat it like a job, with a start time and a stop time. Mornings suit the work that needs the most care, such as tailoring a CV to one particular role or writing a cover letter you actually mean. Afternoons are fine for the lighter work: searching listings, filling in forms, following up.
Take real breaks, and take them away from the screen. The library in the shop is a good place for ten minutes. Every book on the shelves was given to us by somebody who could say why they liked it, which makes it a better shelf to browse than most.
The whole menu is served all day, so you do not have to leave to find lunch. We do ask that you do not bring outside food or drink in, because buying something here is what keeps the room free for everyone who uses it.
Why we do this
Plenty of places will sell you a desk by the day. We would rather sell you a coffee and let the desk be the reason you came. It means students, freelancers, people between jobs and anyone whose home is not a workable office all get the same room, on the same terms.
That was a decision made by the people who work here. We are a worker directed shop, and the reasoning behind the free workspace is in why we give the desks away.
Finding us
We are in the plaza on West Southern Avenue, with parking right outside. Our contact page has the map, the directions and our hours, and the workspace page has photographs of the room. If you want to see how we compare with other places to work in Mesa, our guide to the best coffee shops to work remotely in Mesa rates five, ours included.