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“Coworking is more and more about accommodating teams, not solely individual freelancers”

“Coworking is more and more about accommodating teams, not solely individual freelancers”

Eric van den Broek, Sophie Ozdzinski, Stefano Borghi and Augustin Riedinger are co-founders of Copass, a marketplace that offers a selection of workspaces around the globe: vibrant or calm, huge or small, classic or atypical, they got everyone covered. We have interviewed Eric van den Broek to find out more about trends in nomad coworking as well as in new group working patterns. Can you...

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“The growth of flexible workspaces will continue as companies demand greater agility with reduced risk”

“The growth of flexible workspaces will continue as companies demand greater agility with reduced risk”

Founded in 1999, The Instant Group rethinks workspace on behalf of its clients, injecting flexibility, reducing cost and driving enterprise performance. Instant places more than 7.000 companies a year in flexible workspace such as serviced, managed or coworking offices workspace (Instant Offices hosts more than 12,000 flexible workspace centres across the world).  The Instant Group employs 230...

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“You don’t take a cut on all positive externalities you made possible” – Mutinerie (Paris)

“You don’t take a cut on all positive externalities you made possible” – Mutinerie (Paris)

Mutinerie in Paris used to be the poster child of coworking entrepreneurs in the early 2010's. Launched in the north of the French capital, the ecosystem always sounded genuine and unique, with, back then, one of the most beautiful space design one could experience. Seven years later, the van den Broek brothers and their fellow co-founders have decided to put an end to the story. Coworking is...

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“Barriers between hotels, office space, restaurants and residences are more and more broken down.”

“Barriers between hotels, office space, restaurants and residences are more and more broken down.”

TSH (The Student Hotel) has been developing  a co-living and coworking offering for more than a decade. Founded in The Netherlands by Charlie McGregor, a Scot born in Edinburgh, TSH operates 10 locations in various cities in Europe, among which Rotterdam, Amsterdam, The Hague, Eindhoven, Paris or Barcelona. TSH plans to open up a total of 40 locations in European cities by 2021. Florence,...

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“The office industry will resist to prevent a “booking.com” of coworking or flexible workplace to rule their market”

“The office industry will resist to prevent a “booking.com” of coworking or flexible workplace to rule their market”

Rialto is a sales and marketing software as a service offering CRM functionalities tailored to the commercial real estate industry. This "broker portal" allows operators and brokers to exchange inventory and enquiries for space. The rise of the demand for coworking and flexible workplace offering might hit dramatically the traditional intermediaries within the workplace world. We interviewed...

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“For property owners and flexible workspace operators, the shared revenue model will be one model among many”

“For property owners and flexible workspace operators, the shared revenue model will be one model among many”

GKRE, a UK based flexible workspace specialist, could be a kind of new operator in the market: a matchmaker between real estate owners, on the one hand, coworking and flexible workplace operators, on the other hand. GKRE advises landlords and building owners throughout the UK on their flexible workspace options and opportunities to partner with flexible workspace providers. The company has...

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Business centers and coworking spaces: now two sides of the same coin?

Business centers and coworking spaces: now two sides of the same coin?

  Eduardo Salsamendi is involved in the industry of flexible workspace since 1990. That year, he founded his first business center Klammer located in Northern Spain.  In 2008, Eduardo Salsamendi founded the European Confederation of Business Centers Associations (EUROCBCA ), headquartered in Brussels. while being the president of the Spanish Worskpaces association  ProWorkSpaces. We talked...

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Pacific Workplace : “What we learned from the takeover of a coworking brand”

Pacific Workplace : “What we learned from the takeover of a coworking brand”

A few months ago, Pacific Workplaces, a California based business centers network, took over Next Space, a coworking brand with locations in Berkeley, Santa Cruz and San Jose. Why did a business center operator buy one of the best known historical bay area's coworking brand ? What was the vision and how is the integration going ? Laurent Dhollande, CEO of Pacific Workplaces and boss of CloudVO,...

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“We believe we have an ideal Coworking model to be franchised”

“We believe we have an ideal Coworking model to be franchised”

In France, the Trigano family is a close to a legend. Decades ago, Gilbert Trigano founded the worldwide famous 'Club Med' brand. In 2017, his grandson Jeremie is now walking in his shoes. Mama Works is a network of coworking spaces inspired by their experience in the hotel industry, especially with the Mama Shelter brand, a collection of designed by Philippe Starck hotels, with locations now in...

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Coworking to change the work culture in Japan

Coworking to change the work culture in Japan

Takayuki Hagihara is one of the well-known faces within the coworking global scene. Tokyo based Takayuki travelled the world visiting dozens of coworking spaces and building up a limitless knowledge of the multi-diverse way the coworking model is implemented on the five continents. ULSLab's (Ubiquitous Lifestyle Laboratory, his company) mission is "the realization of a society where everyone can...

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