Alberto from Archie highlights the key reasons why community managers are too often busy on operational tasks, and how that can be fixed – so they go back to focusing on their communities.

Daniela Mallarino from Kisi was also wondering if coworking has become too commoditized, with both landlords and operators looking to monetize space more efficiently. For a different set of opinions, she asked some of the platforms in the space for their thoughts.

Alberto Di Risio (Archie) shared thoughts about the impact on member retention, Helga Moreno (Spacebring) looked at challenges of differentiation, and Kelly Karn (Optix) dug into how spaces who do more than standard desks are succeeding.

After introducing a new policy under which remote workers would no longer be promoted or moved to new roles, data shows that half of Dell’s employees chose to give up career advancement in exchange for workspace flexibility. Alberto Di Risio from Archie comments on why flexible work matters and what went wrong in this case.

If they don’t want promotions, I guarantee they still want somewhere awesome to work wherever they’re based, that’s where you come in friends.