How has 2025 reshaped coworking?
What can we expect in 2026?
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🎉 Coworking celebrations
🎂 COhatch turns 10 #
Congrats to the whole COhatch team and community. Love this post from their CEO and cofounder, reflecting on their first decade and priorities for the next 10 years.
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🎂 The Pearl Works turned 4! #
Huge congrats to Alora Daunt and the whole Pearl Works community!
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✊ Coworking impact
🇬🇧 Brighton-based operator launches mentorship program #
Alana Harris shares that, alongside Bud Johnston, Alex Young and Ethan Phoenix Kentish, they’ve designed a 6-month mentorship and skills programme at Projects for 18-28-year-olds who aren’t in full-time education.
The programme called "Project Your Future" is designed to better support young people in figuring things out, get guidance. direction and community.
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📰 Coworking news & views.
⭐ How to increase Google reviews by 67% #
Olivia Lutz, Community Associate at Venture X White City, shared how she increased the location’s Google reviews from 85 to 142 over one year while maintaining a 4.9-star rating. The 67% growth was achieved through QR code signage, printed review cards for members and guests, follow-up emails after day pass and meeting room bookings, and an clever incentives.
Among new reviews, 60% mentioned staff quality and 26% mentioned Lutz by name, demonstrating the impact of community management efforts on member satisfaction and online visibility.
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🧾 5 coworking pricing strategies #
Graham Clarke, CEO of Baseworx, shared pricing recommendations for coworking and flexible workspace operators, warning against undercutting competitors as a strategy that leads to burnout and business failure.
Clarke outlined five pricing principles and emphasized that effective pricing aligns delivered value, price points, and brand promise rather than focusing solely on competitive rate positioning.
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🚀 8 Google Ad tips to boost meeting & event space revenue #
Reuben Lau from Spacefully shares an article that explores eight Google Ads strategies tailored for coworking operators looking to attract more event bookings, fill their calendars year-round, and monetize underused space.
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💰 Quantifying a coworking operators’ landlord value proposition #
Daniel Wesson, Founder and CEO of The Post Workspaces, outlined the financial value coworking operators provide landlords through lease stability and turnover cost avoidance.
Using a 16,000 square foot space example at $25/SF, Wesson calculated landlord costs for operator departure including $400,000 in lost rent during 9-month absorption and 3-month buildout periods, $1.52M in tenant improvements at $95/SF, and $160,000 in broker commissions, totaling over $2M.
Wesson positioned coworking operators’ typical 10-year lease commitments as significantly more valuable than traditional tenants’ 3-5 year deals, enabling landlords to amortize tenant improvement costs over longer periods while avoiding loan covenant violations and distressed asset perceptions associated with prominent vacancies.
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📝 Three leadership principles from a seasoned COO #
Sari Lash penned a piece sharing what Meagan Slavin, COO of 25N Coworking, presented at the Global Workspace Association Conference during a panel on "Turning Challenges into Wins".
The first emphasized aligning with partners and team members who share fundamental values, noting that trust-based decisions enable faster execution and resilience during challenges. Slavin then advocates trusting gut instincts backed by experience, particularly for critical personnel decisions, and acting swiftly once deeper investigation confirms initial intuition. The third lesson focused on delegation through the "give away your Legos" principle, transferring responsibility for sales and people operations processes to her leadership team after proper training, creating capacity for her to focus on new location growth for the coworking operator.
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💡 Coco CEO shares 7 leadership lessons from recent conference #
Colleen Moselle, CEO of Coco, shared business takeaways from her time at this month’s Global Workspace Association conference.
The insights emphasized that brand identity stems from customer experience rather than visual identity, engagement drives loyalty through meaningful participation opportunities, and authentic storytelling with real people outperforms data-driven marketing alone. Additional themes included the importance of emotionally intelligent leadership, tracking metrics beyond occupancy such as utilization and retention, adopting collaborative rather than competitive strategies, and leveraging AI for automation while preserving human connection and creativity. (Philip Cohen from Workuity also gets a shout out)
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🎯 How coworking spaces can earn attention in 2026 #
Taylor Mason at Talemaker shares how coworking spaces can create structure in their social media, and post with purpose. This guide provides a high-level framework for how to make "social" happen for your coworking business.
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💻 Coworking technology.
💰 VO platform invests millions in operator-focussed upgrades #
Alliance Virtual Office share that they are investing millions into upgraded systems, designed to make operating a workspace more seamless and profitable. These upgrades are spread across 3 areas (on-demand bookings, compliance support, and their mail management system). Juan Hilario also shares that they’ve also launched their own meeting room and workspace booking platform and mobile app.
The piece also highlights the vast efficiencies that participating operators are already seeing, and that their instant bookings infrastructure hooks deeply into existing systems like OfficeRnD, Nexudus and others through Syncaroo.
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⚠️ A warning from this infuriated post about Uber… #
This post on the MildlyInfuriating subreddit shows screenshots of two Uber requests from the same place, to the same place, at the same time, with a whopping $52.90 difference. Left unchecked, could we see a $50 difference in meeting room, day pass or other flex space products?
There’s a LOT of talk about Dynamic Pricing in/around coworking. Heck, TWIC is even doing a deep-dive Undercurrents edition on the topic.
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🤖 OfficeRnD hosts internal AI-focused hackathon #
OfficeRnD organized an internal hackathon called "Collab-a-thon: Unleashing AIdeas for a Better Workday" led by Customer Success team member Viliyana Asparuhova alongside colleagues Milko Diankov and Demira Adzhikova.
The event focused on developing AI-driven solutions to improve daily workflows and brought together cross-functional teams from different departments within the workspace management software company.
Trend: Hackathons are fascinating ways to rapidly test or experiment with new tech, and connect teams may not usually overlap on day-to-day tasks.
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☕️ New POS version for selling coffees, snacks and day passes #
Nexudus have upgraded their NexKiosk to v2, making it effortless for guests and visitors to walk up to the Kiosk, choose a snack, a drink, or even a day pass, and pay instantly with their card, no account needed. As for members, and your own team, the POS also makes purchases easy with payment via either card or consolidated invoice.
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📈 Coworking data.
👀 Hungry for fresh data? Deskmag’s survey is back! #
Deskmag has surveyed the coworking landscape for 15 years, and shared their findings far and wide. The global survey is back and it will only take you 10 minutes to share your insights, and make an impact on the industry as a whole.
As always, the overall results will be published for free & put right back into your inbox via your weekly TWIC reports.
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🇺🇸 US coworking market reaches 8,420 locations over 152M sqft #
Yardi shares in a CoworkingCafe report that the US coworking market reached 8,420 locations covering 152M square feet in Q3 2025, representing 2.1% of total office space with national median pricing at $225/month for memberships, $30 for day passes, $45/hour for meeting rooms, and average site sizes of 18,080 square feet.
Manhattan leads in square footage with 12.06M square feet across 287 locations averaging 42,000 square feet each, while Los Angeles has the highest location count at 322 spaces, followed by Dallas-Fort Worth (310) and Chicago (287 locations with 8.74M square feet).
Regus dominates operator presence with 1,185 locations nationwide, followed by HQ (274), VAST Coworking (180), Industrious (150+), and Spaces (150+), while Manhattan maintains premium pricing at $339/month for memberships and $67/hour for meeting rooms compared to efficiency markets like Salt Lake City and Columbus at approximately $150/month. Texas emerged as one of the country’s largest coworking ecosystems with Dallas, Houston, Austin, and San Antonio collectively hosting over 600 flexible workspaces.
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💼 Should all office portfolios have a 10% flex allocation? #
A recent article from Allwork.Space suggests landlords adopt a 90% traditional lease, 10% flexible workspace portfolio strategy to balance stability and growth without compromising asset valuations. CBRE‘s 2024 research found that 71% of U.S. office transactions with less than 30% flex space traded within 50 basis points of peer cap rates, demonstrating valuation neutrality when flex allocation remains under 15-20% of building area. The Flex Insights reports that by 2025, half of global companies expect at least 10% of their real estate portfolios to include flexible workspace options.
The analysis positions flex space as capable of lifting NOI through premium per-square-foot pricing, ancillary revenue from meeting rooms and day passes, and higher utilization rates, with implementation options including third-party operator leases, management/profit-share partnerships, or in-house branded operations.
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🇵🇭 Colliers reports on Philippine flex market growth #
Colliers released "The future is flex" report analyzing the Philippine flexible workspace industry, reporting that Metro Manila’s inventory reached 267,000 sqm as of the first 3 quarters of 2025 with 21% vacancy, surpassing pre-pandemic levels after recovering from a 41% vacancy peak in 2020.
The report identifies three strategic shifts among operators: growing adoption of managed workspace solutions by outsourcing firms seeking branded spaces without capital expenditure, increased joint venture agreements between building owners and flex operators, and expansion of Employer of Record services to accelerate market entry for foreign companies.
Colliers emphasized asset-light strategies, provincial market expansion, and business continuity products as key drivers for future growth, noting the Asian Development Bank identified 700 active Philippine startups in 2023, a sevenfold increase from 100 in 2015.
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🤝 Coworking market moves.
🇺🇸 Portland operator enters SF market #
Portland-based coworking provider CENTRL Office has entered the San Fransisco market by leasing a 34,000 sqft space previously occupied by WeWork at Waterfront Plaza in San Francisco’s North Waterfront neighborhood.
The expansion targets the area’s growing concentration of AI startups, which has driven increased demand for flexible workspace in the waterfront district.
Post via Kurt Patrick from essensys and ft Alex Hughes.
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✂️ The Shop officially launch in Brooklyn #
Anne Olsen shares that the Gowanus location of The Shop Workspace has now officially opened.
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🌍 KOFISI secures $10.5M from Falco Group for African expansion #
Pan-African workspace operator KOFISI received $10.5M investment from London-based Falco Group as part of a $35M Series B capital raise, with CEO Michael Aldridge advocating for operator-driven growth models over traditional fragmented fund investments in Africa.
ICYMI: KOFISI currently operate 11 centers across six African countries with a portfolio approaching 500,000 sqft, seeing 40% growth in 2024 through expansion of existing centers and new openings in Kenya and Morocco. The investment will support development of a further 1M sqft of premium workspace across Africa, including a new 100,000 sqft location in Nairobi and upcoming sites in Kigali, Cairo, and other key markets.
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🇪🇸 Cink Coworking expands to 11 Madrid locations by year-end #
Madrid-based Cink Coworking announced plans to add 3,000 sqm of workspace in 2025, bringing its total footprint to 15,000 sqm across 11 operational centers by year-end. The expansion includes new locations in the Arturo Soria and Infanta Mercedes districts, adding 200 workstations with private offices accommodating teams of 2-20 people, meeting rooms, phone booths, lunch areas, terraces, and event spaces, while the Arturo Soria center includes a gym, rest zones, and parking.
The operator maintains over 90% occupancy across its portfolio concentrated within Madrid’s M-30 ring, reflecting strong demand for flexible office solutions. Founded in 2011 by three private partners, Cink Coworking has grown through landlord partnerships.
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🇬🇧 IWG appoints first ever female CEO within group #
Joanne Bushell was appointed CEO, United Kingdom for IWG plc, becoming the company’s first female CEO after more than 20 years in senior leadership roles across Africa, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe. Her immediate priorities include accelerating revenue growth and partnership-driven network expansion, elevating customer experience while strengthening broker/agent and enterprise partnerships, and developing the next generation of leaders within IWG UK.
Bushell will lead execution of the UK business plan in alignment with IWG Founder & Group CEO’s 2030 vision, focusing on advancing flexible workspace accessibility for businesses across the UK market.
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🇸🇪 Castellum sells coworking brand to competitor #
Swedish real estate company Castellum announced the sale of its coworking subsidiary United Spaces to competitor iOffice on October 27, 2025, with finalization expected in Q4 2025. The transaction will boost Castellum’s annual earnings by approximately €2.74M and enables the property owner to refocus on core office and logistics real estate operations across Nordic cities.
United Spaces, founded in 2000 as one of Sweden’s pioneering coworking operators and fully acquired by Castellum in 2019, operates 10 locations and generated stable revenues of approximately €23M in 2024. The acquisition will double iOffice’s Swedish location count, with iOffice CEO Homan Tehrani scheduled to speak at the Coworking Europe 2025 conference in Berlin on November 19-20.
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🏢 Flex by Grosvenor launches hub near Victoria Station #
Flex by Grosvenor announced Radstock House, a design-led workspace located near Victoria Station in London, launching in June 2026.
The property features three fully managed floors of 4,500 sqft each with capacity for up to 66 workstations per floor, plus private meeting rooms, breakout areas, kitchens, phone booths, quiet zones, and a rooftop terrace. Radstock House is part of a three-location launch portfolio from Flex by Grosvenor this month, alongside Holbein Gardens and 67 Grosvenor Street.
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🚨 Space designated as municipality emergency ops site #
Vibe Coworks and the City of Poulsbo, Washington formalized a Memorandum of Understanding designating the coworking space as a tertiary operational site under the city’s Continuity of Operations Plan (COOP), signed October 27, 2024. The agreement enables essential municipal functions to continue at Vibe Coworks if Poulsbo City Hall becomes inaccessible during catastrophic emergencies, with the facility providing conference rooms, gig-speed fiber internet, wired ethernet connections, projector and panoramic webcam equipment, whiteboard walls, wellness room, private phone booths, and ADA-accessible infrastructure.
City Administrator Rob Gelder and Vibe Coworks Director of Operations Amber Sallay emphasized the partnership adds redundancy to emergency management frameworks while demonstrating how coworking spaces function as vital civic infrastructure through public-private collaboration.
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🎙 Coworking conversations.
Hector Kolonas sits down with Brandon Houston, an inspiring and community-focused founder of Collingwood Foundry to delve into the unique dynamics of running a coworking space in a small town (under 30k population) and the importance of fostering authentic connections.
Saad Riaz joined Syed Muzamil Hasan Zaidi on the Thought Behind Things podcast to dig into how Kickstart is growing in/from Pakistan through landlord partnerships.
Hector Kolonas caught up with Sofia Stolberg about changes introduced at the GWA conference this year – the shift to a modular offering where operators can pick which parts of PilotoMail they want and need for their businesses.
Ellie Meredith appeared on the Coworking Values Podcast to share her journey from overwhelmed 19-year-old school-leaver to the protagonist of a documentary that’s screening in hundreds of communities worldwide, and how/why your coworking space could/should be next.
In this episode, Brave Corp CEO, Caleb Parker, and co-host Gary Helm from MUTE sits down with Lawrence Hutchings, CEO of Workspace Group PLC to unpack an institutional mindset meeting operational reality and how the platform’s “Fix, Accelerate, Scale” strategy aims to drive occupancy, earnings, and growth.