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 with […]
A big yet untapped potential for coworking in small towns and rural areas (survey)
[sdfile url=”https://socialworkplaces.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Rural-Coworking-Survey-2018.pdf” title=”Download the full Small towns and rural Coworking Survey 2018″] By leaving your email address in the box, here above, you agree to receive information about our future publications and surveys. Coworking is not a ‘city only’ phenomenon. Since a while, singles, young couples and families are moving away from the noisy pace […]
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 […]
The lack of willingness to collaborate is a challenge freelancers and coworking spaces face – Matt Lambert (Coworking Montenegro)
Matt Lambert, who originally hails from the United States, moved to Montenegro in 2013 to work with a travel startup. Around the end of 2014, Matt began noticing a “gap in the business ecosystem” especially in relation to freelancers, startups, and creatives, while simultaneously taking an interest in coworking. Inspired the coworking movement in the […]
“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 […]
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 cooperate […]
Paris coworking boom equally fuelled by independent and branded spaces
The maturation of the coworking market showcases a more and more perceivable split between two kind of players : well funded growing coworking brands, with a multi-location strategy, on the one hand locally rooted independent coworking spaces with a more focused identity and community, on the other hand. The pattern gets confirmed is a steadily growing […]
London: The coworking market sees signs of a price war looming
Hector Kolonas is the founder of Included.co, an online platform organising group purchases for a network of over 200 coworking communities in the world. The service helps the spaces to buy supplies and services at a discounted price, thanks to the generated volumes. As a London-based startup, which initially started to work with the London coworking ecosystem, […]
“Coworking is an emerging industry comparable to hotels or restaurants”
Jean-Yves Huwart, founder of SocialWorkplaces.com and initiator of the Coworking Europe conference was interviewed, last month, by Building magazine, a Canada-based magazine covering the Real Estate and Construction industry. It’s not a secret that the Real Estate industry is wondering how to deal with the growing phenomenon of coworking. The flexible model could slowly disrupt the traditional office […]
Ahoy! Berlin works on accommodating freelancers and corporations
Ahoy! Berlin is a Berlin based space for coworking and innovation. The more than 4.000 m2 big space host now freelancers as well as sartups and corporations. Hi Stéphanie, can you introduce the Ahoy! Berlin project? What is it about? Our main goal is to create a dynamic yet sustainable community where people have the […]
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