When it rains, it pours. Coworking is all over the news right now. In addition to the awesome article about us on CNNMoney.com, the venerable New York Times took notice this week of the issues being encountered by independent workers who tend to work out of home offices.I have to say, as a freelance writer/professional blogger myself, with this paragraph the article’s writer summed up the problems Office Nomads is there to help independents solve:

Ms. Young Wiese is one of many of the millions of Americans now working outside traditional workplaces who have found themselves surprised by how difficult home-office life can be. It requires strict self-discipline and an ability to tune out spouses, children and pets. For the more sociable or emotionally needy, it can feel like house arrest, especially if the phone hasn’t rung in a while.

It simply doesn’t get any more true than that. When I started freelancing last year, I thought working at home would be the bees knees. No office to go to at an appointed time, no one telling me what to write or when to write it, no dress code. I realized right quick though that working at home isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. For me, it happened when I realized that it was no longer quite as joyful to put on my sweat pants at the end of the day if I’d been in another pair all day long.I’m convinced that it’s reasons like that why “the use of communal work spaces has been on the rise among [Freelance Union] members for about three years, ‘and in the last year it’s started accelerating.’”Check out the Times article. I’m sure that out of the many different types of home-office users and the issues they face you’ll find someone tackling an obstacle familiar to you. I found David Behl.

He misses the studio he used to share with two other photographers. “You don’t see anybody,” he said. “You don’t go out for lunch. It’s easier to get depressed because there’s no one to complain to.”