Woman Turns Family Home Into Office Space, Parents Now Part-Time Janitors
KEY POINTS
- •Hana Nguyen moved to Da Nang for college and studied pharmacy but found her job boring and low paying by 2016.
- •In 2023, a foreign friend introduced her to coworking spaces, inspiring Hana to manage a hotel floor coworking space for free.
- •By early 2024, she converted her parents’ home into a coworking space, with her family taking on guard and cleaning roles.
Hana Nguyen, 36, from Da Nang, Vietnam, transformed her parents’ three-story family home into a bustling coworking space hosting 30 people for $76 a month. After graduating pharmacy in 2016 and enduring a soul-crushing $250-a-month pharmacy gig, she stumbled on coworking in 2023 through a foreign friend's guide to Marble Mountains. Initially managing a hotel-floor coworking space rent-free, she finally pitched converting her parents’ home, roping them in as guard and cleaner. Her career shift coincided perfectly with Dad’s cancer diagnosis, juggling family crises while organizing beach trips and yoga for stressed-out digital nomads who ironically pay more for shared WiFi than a therapy session.
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(1 of 3)Who knew a failed pharmacist's cure for boredom was turning her family's home into an Airbnb for keyboard warriors? Spoiler: Mom brooms, Dad guards, and Hana dreams.
Digital nomads in Da Nang are basically freeloading tourists who unknowingly doubled as home renovators and family business enforcers.
She turned her parents' house into an office, proving that the modern 'work from home' often means 'parents working for you.'
Source: Businessinsider | Published: 3/5/2026 | Author: Joshua Zukas
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