Where to Take Video Calls in Daphne and Fairhope, AL
Plenty of Eastern Shore business now runs through a camera and a microphone, and the room behind you turns up in every one of those calls. People ask us about this on tours, usually a week or two after a call at home went sideways. You have four options for videoconferencing at Daphne CoWork, our coworking space at 25369 US-98 E, Unit K, Daphne, AL 36526. Below is what each one suits and what it costs.
Videoconferencing options for Daphne, Fairhope and Spanish Fort
The conference room is where client calls belong, and every membership includes time in it. Standups run fine from a desk on the open floor, while anyone on camera all day is better off behind the door of a private office. Booking The Atrium at Daphne Square by the hour covers trainings too big for a table.
- Conference room. Best for client calls, interviews and small group meetings. Included with any membership, up to three hours a month. Reserve ahead, first come first served.
- A desk on the open floor. Best for standups, internal check-ins and anything you can take with headphones on. $99 a month, or $199 for a designated desk. Month to month, no lease.
- Private office. Best for back to back calls and all-day camera work. Call for pricing. One office is open right now.
- The Atrium at Daphne Square. Best for trainings, workshops and larger sessions. From $75 an hour, reserved by the hour.
The full breakdown of what each membership includes sits on our membership page. We are a few miles south of Spanish Fort on US-98, and about the same distance north of Fairhope. The meeting space here is a short drive from either city.
Connection, noise and the wall behind you
Calls from home come apart for reasons that have nothing to do with the work. The connection drops to a crawl the moment someone starts streaming in the next room. A lawn crew fires up outside the window while the dog barks at the mail truck, and your camera frames a dining room instead of a workplace. Those parts of a home setup are hard to control, and they land on camera whether or not the meeting matters.
Bandwidth is worth checking first, because a closed door and a tidy background will not fix a slow upload. Videoconferencing uploads your own video at the same time it downloads everyone else's, so the upload number on your plan is the one to look up.
What the platforms ask for: Zoom recommends 3.8 Mbps up and 3.0 Mbps down for a group meeting in 1080p HD, according to its published system requirements.
You can get through most of a week at home without any trouble, and the hours worth moving are usually the few with other people watching. Our memberships run month to month with no lease, so you can walk the floor before committing to anything. If your next call needs a room, call 251-517-9425 and we will tell you what is open that week.
Meeting space for client calls and interviews
The conference room is easy to plan around, because client calls usually land on a calendar days before anyone dials in. Everybody on the floor shares the included hours, and the room fills up fastest on mornings when part of a team drives in while the rest joins remotely.
Book it Monday for a Thursday call, and you get a door that closes and a background nobody asks you to explain. Your own laptop runs the call, so bring it along with whatever headset you like. The same room suits interviews and performance reviews, where the conversation should not carry across the open floor.
Everyday calls from your desk
Daily check-ins do not need a separate room, and a desk with headphones handles them. An open workspace membership at Daphne CoWork is $99 a month, and a designated workspace is $199 for the same reserved desk every visit. Both come with high-speed fiber internet plus access to the kitchen, coffee bar and restrooms, and both give you the building from 7 AM to 6 PM Monday through Friday.
Our about page lists the rest of what a membership covers. Two questions are worth asking on any tour, here or anywhere else. Ask what the upload speed actually is at the desk you would sit at, and ask what the camera picks up behind it.
Private offices when you are on camera all day
Back to back calls are easier behind a door of your own. Our private offices run from 50 to 200 square feet, with layouts that fit a solo professional or a small team, and they lock. Water, electricity, sewer and trash are folded into a monthly utilities fee, and a private office comes with 24-hour access on your own key or door code, which is what makes an early call to the East Coast or a late one to the West Coast workable.
Internet service, phone lines and cable stay with the tenant, so you choose the connection your calls run on. An office also gives you somewhere to sit down with people in person, and we wrote more about hosting meetings in a private office in an earlier post. One office is open right now, and we quote pricing by phone, so call for the current number.
Trainings and workshops in the event space
A training or a workshop needs room to spread out, which is what The Atrium at Daphne Square is for. It is 4,000 square feet and rents from $75 an hour for corporate meetings, trainings, workshops and business presentations. Networking events, mixers and team building sessions run there as well.
You book the Atrium by the hour, which works for a half-day training as easily as a two-hour workshop. It is also where we point people who want meeting space for a single session without taking on a membership. After hours the same space is booked for birthdays, baby showers, graduation parties and holiday gatherings.
Come see the rooms before your next call
The quickest way to choose is to walk the rooms yourself. Call Daphne CoWork at 251-517-9425 or send a note through our contact page. We will set a time to show you the conference room, the open floor and whichever private office is free. If you are weighing a membership against renting the Atrium for a single session, we can cover both in the same visit.
Our city pages for Fairhope and Spanish Fort cover the coworking, internet and meeting rooms we offer at those ends of the highway. Our door is Unit K at 25369 US-98 E, Daphne, AL 36526. Bring your calendar and we will work out where your next call fits.