Adam Goldstein and the WorkBistro team have launched FlowSpace to create "beautiful and engaging events spaces". It’s a fairly new offering, but they bring together space, service and proximity – an interesting move. I think we’ll see more experiments in merged services for niche markets over the next couple of months, and I’ll keep an eye on this one.

Matt Giffune shares why he and his colleague Andrew Flint commute to their hybrid offices at WeWork and Industrious respectively.

"Free coffee is one way to get me back into the office. Others are proximity to the gym, a sub-20 minute walking commute, and seeing my team."

Josh Freed shared that Proximity was awarded Coworking Innovation of the Year by RemoteTech Breakthrough for standout technology innovation empowering remote work and distributed teams around the world.

Congrats team Proximity!

Neil Usher highlights one of the major questions that are asked in coworking, which is “who is your coworking space for?”. The answer to this changes from person-to-person and it may seem like there is no clear and concise answer. However, we are able to figure out the importance of the spaces we have and how they are able to evolve to fit into today’s society.

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.