Five rules for meeting-room moo-tiquette
Shared spaces work because of shared norms. Ours just happen to cover hooves, herding, and the correct use of the hay bar.
Every coworking space lives or dies by its meeting-room culture. Ours has a few extra clauses. Here are the five rules we laminate onto every door.
1. Book the right size room
The Hayloft seats eight humans or four humans and one cow. Booking a standard room and arriving with a bovine plus-one is the new “inviting twelve people to a four-person huddle.” The booking system asks about species for a reason.
2. The hay bar is for everyone, within reason
Yes, the oat clusters are technically human-grade. No, that does not mean the entire tray is a single serving — a rule that, for the record, predates the cows.
3. Hooves off the whiteboard wall
We admire the enthusiasm. We do not admire hoof-print diagrams, which are ambiguous and resist erasing.
4. Mooing during presentations: one warning system
A single supportive moo during a demo is morale. Sustained mooing is feedback, and feedback belongs in the retro. Humans interrupting on calls are held to the same standard, which most members agree is the fairest sentence in the whole policy.
5. Leave the room how you found it
Wipe the table, stack the chairs, sweep the straw. The fifteen-minute buffer between bookings exists so the next team walks into a fresh room, not an agricultural diorama.
Want to see the rooms in person? Book a tour and we’ll show you the Hayloft, hoof marks and all.