Helga Moreno shares a Q&A with John Preece from Hub Australia. They start with the challenges of pioneering flex space since 2011, how those challenges changed over time, and their views on differentiation, technology and member-retention.

Brad Krauskopf shares that Hub Australia’s commitment to impact-driven initiatives sees them offer a a portion of our desks to social enterprises, B Corps, and people from businesses doing good through our Flexi-Impact Program.

Hub Australia and Generator have joined forces to enable one of the largest international coworking offerings in the region. The alliance pilot gives the 8,000 members reciprocal complementary access across the 18 total locations, and will run for 6 months.

John Preece from Hub Australia summarizes Dror Poleg‘s recent article called ‘Airbnb and the Abstraction of Location’.

Both the summary and the article are good reads that highlight how Airbnb changed how people booked trips by focussing on types of experiences first (before dates/locations/price) and Spotify changed how music was discovered through types or activities (as oppose to genres).

Makes us think how would, or could, workers pick workspaces other than proximity, price and amenities. From what I’m seeing with the aggregators and booking platforms in development, a lot of amazing teams are already experimenting with new ways of workspace discovery.

Brad Krauskopf announced Hub Australia‘s, 6th location in Melbourne.