From the Members: Dr. Priya Silverstein

Welcome to our new series From The Members, where we’ll hear from Society1 Members about what they do, why they chose Society1, and what they love about coworking.

First up, we spoke to Dr Priya Silverstein…

Tell us about yourself. What do you do?

PS: Hi, I’m Priya and I’m a researcher in psychology and metascience at Ashland University.

How do you use Society1?

PS: I have a dedicated desk at Society1. I started off just coming in once a week with my laptop, but then I liked it so now I have my own desk. I come most of the days of the week and do most of my work here.

What is the biggest benefit of working from Society1?

PS: One of the biggest benefits of working from Society1 is just getting to be around people. I’m quite an extrovert, so it can be quite lonely working from home all the time and never getting to hang out with my colleagues. There’s a lot of flexibility with working remotely, but yeah, it can be lonely so it’s so nice to just come into Society1 and be able to have all the little tiny chit-chat you miss from being in an office, but then without the pressure of those people working with you.

One little random thing that happened at Society1 was that someone that was siting near my desk has a completely different job from me – works in like, events management – but just happened to have lots of contacts for scientists in Saudi Arabia, which was an area that we were looking to collect data in. So he was able to give me a list of contacts, and now some of those people are going to be collaborating with my study.

What would you say to someone that was thinking about joining Society1?

PS: If someone was thinking about joining Society1, I would suggest doing it, first of all. Because they’ve got such flexible options, you could start with one day a month – and I would suggest starting with a day when they’ve already got something going on like a Breakfast Social or Evening Drinks and that way you can get to know people and feel it out before you decide what you want to do in the future.