Your noise cancelling headphones are no match for the screech of a baby, you’re starting to realize why caffeine is categorized as a drug, and you’d be shocked if the Wi-Fi exceeds two bars.
This is no way to live your nomadic young professional career.
So before you singlehandedly pay off the lease at your local Starbucks for the fifth month in a row, just relax and take a breather. Literally.
Breather allows you to rent rooms to use as your workspace wherever you are and whenever you need on your phone, whether a homey abode in Montreal lined with local art, something with an industrial-chic palette in New York, or a spot with a more coastal aesthetic in San Francisco. You’ll also find a host of spaces to rent in our nation’s capital.
Here’s how it works:
After downloading the app, you’ll have access to top-notch rooms in the four above mentioned cities that you can rent from anywhere between a half hour to an entire day. Rates vary from $15-40 per hour and you’ll be able to unlock the door upon arrival with your phone. Breather partners with landlords, real estate brokers, and owners of commercial spaces and also gives you the opportunity to offer up your own space.
Consider it the Airbnb of workspaces.
“We’ve seen entrepreneurs using the space as a makeshift office, famous actors using it for rehearsals, authors putting final touches on their first novel, life coaches using the service for face-to-face meetings, and friends booking space as a place to catch up and have an uninterrupted chat,” says Founder Julien Smith, who recognized having a space to call your own while working remotely has a transformative effect on productivity.
Smith will focus on expanding the service – which is currently most popular in New York – across North America over the next 15 months before setting his sights on the global market. He also vows to keep Breather “for the people” by discouraging the use of rooms as off-site offices for companies.
“Now that I’ve seen what we’ve achieved in a single year, five years is going to be a whole other world,” he says. “Global expansion is on our horizon.”
Now you can add ‘I have an office there’ to the list of reasons to visit the Big Apple this fall.
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