John Grindley: Unplugging to Connect
John Grindley is the Executive Director of Cohabitat Foundation and as a person who has been available to everyone for the past few years, he wanted to take a moment to talk about how we need to disconnect from technology and reconnect with people.
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ABOUT John Grindley
“Co-working is an emerging trend that allows often-isolated workers, such as work-at-home professionals, independent contractors, and budding entrepreneurs to enjoy a supportive community setting while still working independently.
Co-working in this type of social environment allows these independent workers to share values. It also allows them to fuel their interest in the synergy that can happen from working with talented people in the same space.
CoHabitat Louisiana partners John Grindley and Blake Burris along with the DDA (Shreveport’s Downtown Development Authority) took that synergy to the Shreveport-Bossier area. CoHabitat Louisiana is a new co-working space with a cafe-like atmosphere that is designed to create and foster a micro-enterprise atmosphere within a targeted geographical market area. It’s benefits lie in utilising a currently unoccupied building, encouraging an earth-friendly work environment, and bringing creative, entrepreneurial-thinking individuals out of home offices and into down town.
Mayor of Shreveport, Cedric B. Glover said, “The nature of work in our culture is changing rapidly, as more and more of the workforce, especially younger workers, are wanting to be independent of corporate structures, long commutes, and traditional definitions of the work day. Coworking presents an attractive alternative to independent contractors and work-at-home professionals, and has the potential to grow quickly into a major element of the workplace.”
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