“Growing a strong community is the best way to differentiate from the competition”
Gargi Shah is the co-founder of one of Mumbai‘s first coworking spaces. When she opened The Playce in November 2012, the coworking concept was practically unheard of in India. Gargi spent many days dreaming up ways to explain what she did to her grandmother, who still believes that her granddaughter rents out offices for a living. The […]
“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 […]
“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 […]
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 […]
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