“Our coworking activities grew twentyfold in 6 years thanks to Lisbon’s sex appeal”
Distributed teams in coworking spaces: the perfect match? Joao Simoes is the co-founder of IDEA Spaces, a Lisbon based coworking operator which started its activities in 2014 within a 400 sqm space. Six years later, IDEA Spaces is soon to open a third location, cumulating a total of 10.000 sqm surface under coworking management. Joao Simoes talks about how Lisbon changed in the recent...
“The international TechHub franchise will keep going!”
TechHub Riga: the tech coworking and incubator franchise Viesturs Sosars is the co-founder of TechHub Riga, the tech coworking and incubator franchise that was launched eight years ago and since then played a major role structuring the Latvian tech and startup ecosystem and connecting it with the international tech scene. Main takeaways The highlights from our conversation with...
“The wave of corporations transforming their workplaces will hit in 2021”
Flexible workspace operators as third spaces between office and home Francisco Vazquez Medem is the Founder and President of 3G Office, a major architecture firm based in Madrid, operating in close to 50 countries, including Spain, Portugal and most of the Latin American countries. 3G Office designs corporate offices for big companies like Google, Orange or KPMG. In the last couple of...
“We are the hot desking of parking lots”
Employee parking for smart offices Daithí de Buitléir is the Chief Marketing Officer of ParkOffice, a Dublin based startup which optimizes the management of parking lots for companies and landlords. The service is a natural extension of what happens with hot desking management within flexible workplaces and coworking spaces. Learn more about employee parking for smart offices in the...
“The risk for real estate property companies is not to embrace coworking”
Flexible workspace model: the future of Real Estate companies? Henrik Saxborn is the CEO of Castellum, the second biggest real estate company in Sweden. The Swedish company manages an assets portfolio of more than 600 properties, mainly in commercial real estate, representing a total value of more than nine billion euros. Castellum took over UnitedSpaces; is the flexible workspace model...
“Occupancy is back in our Bratislava coworking spaces!”
A coworking space with childcare services in Bratislava Michala Hrnčiarová is the founder of Coworking Cvernovka, a small coworking space that offers childcare services located in the suburb of Bratislava, Slovakia. In February 2020 just before the Covid-19 outbreak, Michala Hrnčiarová opened her second space named Kolabo Coworking at a shopping mall close to Bratislava Airport. Learn...
“The traditional office model was not facing enough competition”
John Williams and James Rankin are respectively CMO and Head of Research at The Instant Group, a multi-service company focused on flexible workspaces and coworking products. Instant has a unique position to spot the latest trends in the coworking market on the EMEA level as well as on the international field. We have interviewed these two very knowledgeable gentlemen to know more about where the...
“With 70 locations, we are today one of the biggest European coworking players”
Roksana Witusinski is the PR and Communications Manager of the group Rent24, today one of the biggest Europe based coworking operators. Founded in 2015 in Berlin, the company operates 70 locations on the continent but also in Israel and the US. Rent24 managed to provide services to around 35.000 members in just 5 years. Learn more about the Rent24 group in this interview with Roksana Witusinski....
“Based on the printout numbers, we know people are coming back to coworking spaces”
Christoph Hammer is Senior Vice President and Product Owner at ezeep, a cloud printing platform for coworking and flexible workspaces. ezeep stands for "easy printing"; the solution takes away the technical hassle of administrating network printers as well as tracking and charging printouts of coworking members. The company also cares about planting trees to offset the carbon footprint of...
“We transform C Class buildings into coworking communities”
Zsofi Toth is the "Navigator" at Puzl Coworking, a Bulgarian based coworking operator with a community of more than 600 members. She is also the co-founder of the Budapest office. Puzl Coworking is working in opening new locations in Hungary and Romania with a model based on the reconversion of C Class Buildings and old factories into cool coworking spaces and communities with a focus on digital...
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