Samantha Wordsworth shares that the Hive (part of The Flexi Group) are expanding with a new location in the Po Hing Fong area of Hong Kong.

The expansion comes through a take over of a former WeWork location, which is a growing trend as office landlords look to fill some of the 500+ fully-built coworking spaces that are sitting empty with no operator.

Seem the list of industry experts who openly shared their insights, warnings, pro-tips and lessons learned in our first 3,800+ word Undercurrent deep-dive?

They are: Antonette Benting from Workshop17, Kane Willmott from iQ Offices, Chris Edwards from The Flexi Group, Jerome Chang from BLANKSPACES, Justin Raymond from Flexday, Danielle Schindler from Engel & Völkers Work Edition, Jon Dweck from Space32, Amina Moreau from radious, Henry Burn from Hubble, Jocelyn Vincent from Landmark and Rafi Sands from Tandem. With thanks to Anne Olsen from The Shop Workspace and Kerry Charlick from Think Tank Cowork for helping with the proof reading

The first edition lands exclusively in the inboxes of TWIC email subscribers on Monday June 17th 2024. And the trend? Fractional Offices – friend or foe for coworking spaces?

Chris Edwards shares that The Flexi Group’s Common Ground brand is expanding in Bangkok via a partnership agreement with Capstone Asset, and Central Pattana.

Chris Edwards shared that The Flexi Group have doubled in size in Singapore and Australia. The former is through the acquisition of two former Found8 sites, and the latter was through a partnership with Aussie developers like Hirsch & Faigen.

Emissary Capital shares that Common Ground is exploring an IPO on the Nasdaq as part of The Flexi Group.

Great to also get some insights from Erman Akinci and Juhn Teo about their journey building one of the largest coworking businesses in Asia.