Coworking In Helsinki

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This is the first time I am working from Helsinki since I started to work for my current firm – not just connecting here and there, but actually working. When we started planning it in June, I started looking for a coworking space, and I found one close to our place. It’s only a 10-minute bus ride, unfortunately in the direction opposite the city center, but still very close.

In June, we went there to find out all the details. I liked what I saw and heard. I could claim a free day within the first month I sign up for their web app and then pay per day, or buy a series or a subscription (which I didn’t need, but that was an option). Monday was my first day in this coworking space (a free day), and I loved it. I immediately bought a ten-day series for a private office.

Here is what I got:

  • The room is a private office “for 1-2 people”, it has a desk, two office chairs and two stools, a desk monitor, a wall monitor and a white board.
  • It has a private bathroom with a shower, towels, shamooo/coditioner/hairdryer
  • There is an ironning board behind the mirror and an iron
  • Also a mini-kitchen with the sink, the kettle/tea bags/coffe/milk:

I have access to gym and sauna. Ididn’t use sauna, the gym is small but has everything I need. Today in the morning, there were three people there at the same time, and we managed 🙂

I have access to the common coworking area with unlimited coffee (the coffee is behind me, and I just realized that I didn’t take a picture of the stairs, will do it later)

There is a 10-euro breakfast from 6-30 to 9-30 (I haven’t tried it yet, but I probably will try it tomorrow) and a 13-euro lunch (that’s with the coworking space users discount). Also, yesterday, I found a place where I can buy cinnamon b=nus and chocolate, and today I found that they also have protein bars, and now my life is complete :).

I also love the fact that this is a manless checkout: you pick up the items, and then you either scan a barcode on the item or just choose “bun,” “croissant,” etc. on the screen and pay.

As I said, it’s very close to our place in Helsinki. Now that I know the bus schedule and do not need to check in daily (I am a subscriber, so I have a button), it takes very little time to get there. Today, I walked into my rented office twenty minutes after closing our apartment door. When you buy a series (I bought it ten days upfront), the cost per day is 37 euros (that includes VAT and everything). I can use these days within a year of purchase, so I do not see any problem with that 🙂

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Published by Hettie D.

My name is Henrietta (Hettie) Dombrovskaya. I was born in Saint-Petersburg, Russian (actually, back then – Leningrad, USSR) in 1963, and immigrated to the United States in 1996. I love Saint Petersburg, the city I was born and raised in, and I think it’s one of the most beautiful places in the world. Similarly (but differently) I love Chicago, and can’t imagine myself moving somewhere else in the observable future. I have three children, Igor, Vlad and Anna, all adults living on their own, and one (so far) granddaughter Nadia. I also believe that my children are the best thing that happened in my life. As for my professional life, I am working in the field of Information Technologies. When I was twenty, I’ve declared that the databases are the coolest thing invented and that I want to do them for the rest of my life. Thirty plus years later, I still believe it’s true, and still, believe that the databases are the best. These two statements together imply that I think a person can have it all, and indeed, I think so! Keep reading my journals to find out how I did it.

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