Santa Monica has Coloft, at $35 to $395 a month, and is popular with tech workers. It offers search engine optimization and programming classes, and tries to sound hip by turning its name into a verb (for example, “We were colofting last night”).

These have been joined by even newer and hipper co-working spaces, including RVCC, which stands for the Reserve Vault City Club. This club occupies the old Federal Reserve Bank in downtown Los Angeles, costs $88 a month, offers free coffee and feels more like a speakeasy than an office space. (Sticking with that secret feel, RVCC proudly doesn’t have a social media presence or a website.)

And the newest is NeueHouse, a beautifully designed co-working space in Hollywood, in the 1938 CBS Radio Building on Sunset Boulevard. Opened last October, NeueHouse, which has branches in New York and London, puts a huge emphasis on cultural events, including Q. and A. sessions with musicians, writers and entrepreneurs. Memberships are $200 and $1,250 per month, depending on space.

Before you rush out to join a co-working space, there are pros and cons to consider.

Some believe working away from a traditional office improves productivity. A study published last year in the journal The Quarterly Journal of Economics examined Ctrip, a 16,000-employee Chinese travel agency, where call-center employees were randomly assigned to work in either the office or home. Those who worked from home were 13 percent more productive, the report found. When Ctrip gave all its workers the option to work from home, productivity grew even further, to 22 percent.

Another study published last year in the journal Sleep Health, found that people who had flexible work schedules slept better than those who had to report to the office at specific times.

But there are studies that raise doubts about working remotely. “How Effective Is Telecommuting?,” published last year in the journal Psychological Science in the Public Interest, found that working from home can make people feel sad. The report says that this is likely because of the social and professional isolation experienced from being home alone for too long.