Tashi Dorjee from JLL breaks down how landlords can apply the three core strengths of flex space (services, on-site staff, and a customer-first approach) across an entire building, not just one floor, exploring the idea of treating the asset more like a hospitality ecosystem. Produced in partnership with essensys.

Over in Milan, Italy, a twin-building project that will form one of the biggest public libraries, the Biblioteca Europea di Informazione e Cultura (or BEIC) is about to be completed. What you may have missed is that part of their charter was to make coworking part of the overall plan from day one.

Dr. Viviana Stefania Vitari was appointed to the role of planning the BEIC’s coworking services. When Viviana isn’t rapidly beating our scores on Coworking Words challenges, she advocates for coworking projects within libraries and the collaboration of these spaces with coworking businesses like yours, via the Italian Library Association.

Mark Gilbreath, skipper at Liquidspace, digs into a piece by Scott Homa, Alex Colpaert, Lee Fong and Matthew McAuley at JLL that makes it abundantly clear: flex is now a core CRE strategy.

"The data is pretty hard to ignore: only 3% of large enterprises use flexible space for more than 10% of their portfolio. Average utilization sits at 54% against a corporate target of 79%. And 43% of corporate leaders expect headcount to grow."

"…The 3% figure isn’t a ceiling. It’s the starting line." Yes, Mark!