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These shared workspaces provide professional environments where independent workers can come together. By sharing a space, these workers also share dialogue, community, and a network capable of combatting the doldrums that remote work so often entails.

But does it work for the military community?

Not only does co-working work for the military

community—there are now co-working sites founded by military affiliates.

In a recent #IamMillie post, Executive Director of Sustainable Sandhills, Founder of Revolutionary Coworking, and military spouse Hanah Ehrenreich explained how co-

working impacted her and her network, saying “working together made us stronger in our chosen fields. Coworking inspired goal setting, financial planning, environmental action, and new milspo connections.”

Ehrenreich’s co-working experiment proved so successful that it produced a new co-working opportunity: Revolutionary Coworking, a nonprofit co-working group near the Center of the Universe, Fort Bragg, NC. Revolutionary Coworking is a site where Fort Bragg’s military community

including vetrepreneurs, milsoprenuers, professionals—and civilian community connect.

Remote Work, Better Choices

Military spouses who want the portability of a remote job without giving up the social interaction of an office job don’t have to choose between their careers or their work environment needs anymore. It’s possible to have both without becoming best friends with the barista at your local coffeehouse (not that there’s anything wrong with that). If you’ve been reluctant to pursue remote work or already work remotely and are feeling the “remoteness” of it all, check out co-working spaces in your community.

"By sharing a space, these workers also share dialogue, community, and a network capable of combatting the doldrums that remote work so often entails."