According to a new report by Colliers, Poland’s flexible office market has grown by ~30% over three years, now totaling ~425k sqm (~4.6M sqft), more than 3% of total office stock.

Warsaw leads with 235,000 sqm and ~90% occupancy, dominated by international operators including Mindspace, Brain Embassy, WeWork, and Regus, alongside local players The Shire and CitySpace.

Kraków is the most diversified regional market, with 16 operators and 70,000 sqm, while Wrocław has seen nearly 50% growth in supply. "Flexibility is now one of the key criteria in office selection," says Robert Romanowski, Senior Associate at Colliers.

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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.

Jean-Yves Huwart from Coworking Europe summarized Colliers‘ recent "Flexpansion" report, which noted that flex models are "increasingly driving structural changes in how office space is developed, operated, and occupied" across EMEA (Europe, Middle-East, Africa).

On the data side, between 2010 and 2014 the no. of flex spaces across the region tripled (up from 1,450 to 4,358) and the total surface area rose by 6.3M sqm (surpassing 8.3M sqm or 89.3M sqft). When it comes to the share of the total office market, flex has grown from 0.7% to 2.4%.

Interestingly, most of the 82 new operators who entered the market last year are local, bringing the total of active flex space providers in EMEA to 1,859. 72% of whom operator in just one single market. When it comes to landlord-flex, their data showed that since 2020, 311 landlord-run flex locations have opened, spanning over 600k sqm.

The Work Project, a luxury flexible workspace operator backed by CapitaLand, is entering the London market at Brookfield Properties‘ One Leadenhall development. Following an RFP process managed by Colliers, The Work Project was selected to operate approximately 32,954 square feet across the 22nd and 23rd floors of the new City of London office tower. Knight Frank represented The Work Project in the transaction.