Aloha,
We have an office in one of hotels in Waikiki, Hawaii. It’s pretty large costing around $5500 a month. We are a tour company that used to have around 10 employees before the Covid-19. During the covid our business was hit pretty hard and currently sitting at 3 employees total. So our business has downsized a lot but it’s kind of ok because we have less employees to pay for now.
We are mostly selling tours to walk in customers at the moment and only utilize front of our office. Our office is great location wise with enough customers flows for now but now 2/3 of our office isn’t being used at all. So we don’t want to move our office even though it makes sense to move to a cheaper rental due to the location being good.
Any idea what we can do not waste 2/3 of our rent? I was looking for someone to move in with us but they all wanted to use the front of our office which we can’t allow.
Recently we have also started to sell temporary tattoos in our office and it’s doing ok although it doesn’t bring big bucks yet.
I can only speak as someone who tries to telecommute in Oahu whenever I visit family out there.
I find Oahu in general very lacking in coworking spaces and coffee shops which are set up for people to do any work and are open into the evening. It surprises me in some ways since equivalent sized cities I have been to have these amenities readily available. Kinda bummed the only options really, for example, are BoxJelly out in Ward or Coffee Bean and Tea Leafs.
Where I am getting at is possibly explore the idea of opening a coworking space. Set up membership and drop in rates. You could expand it to receive people’s business mailings with boxes (and of course charge for the service). Overhead to run such a place shouldn’t be crazy.
Given your office is right in Waikiki, I imagine there may be some overlap of visitors who would like access to this sort of thing. I can say I personally would utilize it if available.