So you love the co-working environment, but do you think that you are a good fit for colleagues? Within a collaborative shared office space, each employee has to come together to create a productive environment. So what things can you do to be a better colleague? 

Read the five tips below and you will easily become one of the most liked coworkers in your coworking community.

Respect The Space

Coworking is about sharing a space. Therefore, everyone is in the place you are working in. It is important to treat a coworking place with respect. Because when you respect the space, others will respect you.

Keep your desk clean, pick yourself up before the day is out, and take care of other’s belongings within the space as well. Offer to do more chores around the space than you normally would. This may mean emptying the dishwasher, locking it after work, changing toilet paper, and making coffee for other members as well. Also, do not hog bandwidth, meeting rooms, and desk space. These are the little things that matter, and it all starts with respecting the place in which you working. You must have heard – GIVE RESPECT! TAKE RESPECT!

Actually Co-work

If you are working in a coworking place and treating it as your personal office, you may not be in the right place. Coworking offices are built for making contacts, so keep in mind that you are encouraged to interact and network with people around you. Bounce ideas from other colleagues, give expert advice to those asking for it, and encourage those around you to work and hustle harder.

Make Coffee 

Coffee makes the world go round – especially in a coworking space. In a collaborative office, making tea and coffee for everyone is an acclaimed activity. A rule of thumb? Never leave an empty coffee pot. Allow the coffee to cool down throughout the day and your coworkers will be a happy camper.

Treat Your Coworkers 

To be everyone’s favorite coworker, you only have to do one simple thing: bring treats. Coworkers will love surprised treats every once and a while with occasional love. They provide a great “break” for hard workers and superb medicine for people with sweet teeth. Bring cookies, cupcakes, fruits, and even leftovers to share with others. And if it’s someone’s birthday, bring something extra special for that person. Behavior brings happiness to an office environment.

Reduce Volume 

If there is one thing that will upset your coworkers, it is the level of sound. A working coworker can be disturbed with an unpleasant volume. A coworking space must provide the right sound balance for effective work but are you disrupting the peace?

If you want to play your own music, the best thing you can do is to wear headphones. Playing multiple songs in an office can become a headache for everyone that too without headphones. Additionally, if you have a long phone conference that you should hold, it is best to take it to the meeting room for privacy. Keep your voice at a respectable level throughout the working day.

Go Ahead and Gossip 

Research shows to start it’s a valuable way to start and cement relationships. Just keep it reasonable – not petty or mean and not over email. If you see a coworker is upset “start a conversation” with him. It will make him feel good and your network grows. But make sure your volume is in a low tone that doesn’t make other coworkers uncomfortable.

Leave Your Bad Moods At Home 

Everyone has problems and no doubt some of your coworkers have worse troubles than you. Leaving for space in a good mood makes your day healthy for working without any doubts. Having a good mood increases your productivity as well as efficiency.

Applying these tips to your everyday coworking routine,  you are sure to be the person offering the least-annoying, best-behaving-treatment, thought-bouncing, coffee in the office. Who wouldn’t want to be? You might fetch some good leads from the coworking space itself because of your behavior and gesture. Hope you guys find this blog on coworking valuable and informative.