🧸 Work + childcare opportunity is still wide open
Axios Washington D.C. mapped local gyms, cafes and coworking spots with on-site child care, Expand 👇 including Two Birds (coworking for enrolled families across D.C., Maryland and Virginia), Cowo & Crèche in Alexandria (membership with child care from about $199/month flex), plus fitness and drop-in play options like Pink Moon, Burn Boot Camp and Mulberry Lane at The Roost.
Years into "the great hybrid experiment", space to work with childcare is still unsolved for most parents and underserved by operators. The demand is obvious; the operators who productize care + desk will own a sticky membership niche.
Axios Washington D.C. mapped local gyms, cafes and coworking spots with on-site child care, Expand 👇 including Two Birds (coworking for enrolled families across D.C., Maryland and Virginia), Cowo & Crèche in Alexandria (membership with child care from about $199/month flex), plus fitness and drop-in play options like Pink Moon, Burn Boot Camp and Mulberry Lane at The Roost.
Years into "the great hybrid experiment", space to work with childcare is still unsolved for most parents and underserved by operators. The demand is obvious; the operators who productize care + desk will own a sticky membership niche.
🇺🇸 A quarter of US spaces offer at least one standout amenity
Remote and hybrid workers are looking for more than a desk and Wi-Fi, and coworking spaces are Expand 👇 starting to reflect that shift.
CoworkingCafe’s newest analysis, "The Best U.S. Cities for Amenity-Rich Coworking", shows that one in four U.S. coworking spaces now offers at least one standout amenity, from pet-friendly policies and wellness spaces to childcare-related support and EV charging.
Main findings: 2,090 of 8,222 coworking spaces (or 25.4%) offer at least one standout amenity. The Northeast leads slightly, with 27% of spaces offering elevated amenities, followed closely by the West at 26.8%. In the South, podcast rooms are the most common premium amenity. In the West, EV charging stands out, while the Midwest and Northeast lean more heavily into podcast rooms, fitness centers and networking-oriented perks. San Francisco and Denver lead for pet-friendly coworking, with 26% of their coworking spaces welcoming pets. Denver leads in total number of pet-friendly spaces, with 24, while San Francisco has 18.
Cambridge, MA, stands out for wellness-focused coworking, with 85% of coworking spaces offering sport or relaxation amenities such as lounges, fitness centers, wellness rooms or break areas. Minneapolis is ahead on childcare-related amenities: 29.4% of its coworking spaces offer childcare-related amenities, including mother’s rooms, nursing facilities or on-site childcare support. Irvine, CA, ranks first for EV-friendly coworking, with charging stations available at 27% of its coworking spaces – more than double the share of the second-ranked city.
Remote and hybrid workers are looking for more than a desk and Wi-Fi, and coworking spaces are Expand 👇 starting to reflect that shift.
CoworkingCafe’s newest analysis, "The Best U.S. Cities for Amenity-Rich Coworking", shows that one in four U.S. coworking spaces now offers at least one standout amenity, from pet-friendly policies and wellness spaces to childcare-related support and EV charging.
Main findings: 2,090 of 8,222 coworking spaces (or 25.4%) offer at least one standout amenity. The Northeast leads slightly, with 27% of spaces offering elevated amenities, followed closely by the West at 26.8%. In the South, podcast rooms are the most common premium amenity. In the West, EV charging stands out, while the Midwest and Northeast lean more heavily into podcast rooms, fitness centers and networking-oriented perks. San Francisco and Denver lead for pet-friendly coworking, with 26% of their coworking spaces welcoming pets. Denver leads in total number of pet-friendly spaces, with 24, while San Francisco has 18.
Cambridge, MA, stands out for wellness-focused coworking, with 85% of coworking spaces offering sport or relaxation amenities such as lounges, fitness centers, wellness rooms or break areas. Minneapolis is ahead on childcare-related amenities: 29.4% of its coworking spaces offer childcare-related amenities, including mother’s rooms, nursing facilities or on-site childcare support. Irvine, CA, ranks first for EV-friendly coworking, with charging stations available at 27% of its coworking spaces – more than double the share of the second-ranked city.
☀️ Coworking (with childcare) can better support working parents
Anna Roborn from Hopscotch Labs makes the case for employers to consider supporting working parents Expand 👇 with benefits like access to coworking spaces with childcare support, especially throughout the summer.
With shorter "school" days due to camps, high camp fees, and a never-ending juggle of logistics and calendars it’s no surprise that this is the least productive quarter for workers with childcare responsibilities. Coworking spaces like The Coven Cary, Moxi, Workplayce, Haven, CoPlay Cove and others could make working more productive for this portion of their communities.
Anna Roborn from Hopscotch Labs makes the case for employers to consider supporting working parents Expand 👇 with benefits like access to coworking spaces with childcare support, especially throughout the summer.
With shorter "school" days due to camps, high camp fees, and a never-ending juggle of logistics and calendars it’s no surprise that this is the least productive quarter for workers with childcare responsibilities. Coworking spaces like The Coven Cary, Moxi, Workplayce, Haven, CoPlay Cove and others could make working more productive for this portion of their communities.
🚼 If less than 0.3% of coworking hubs offer childcare…
Steven Clarke shares that of the ~40,000 coworking spaces, if only 120 of them offer childcare then Expand 👇 the ‘system has failed working mums specifically.’
Steven Clarke shares that of the ~40,000 coworking spaces, if only 120 of them offer childcare then Expand 👇 the ‘system has failed working mums specifically.’
🐣 How a space (with childcare) changed a mum’s life
Paulina Roe (a Chicago mom, an on-air contributor on "The Fred Show," and the founder of Expand 👇 The Mami Collective, a media platform for ambitious mothers shared how a coworking space with on-site preschool changed her life and her parenting.
"I wish I had known about coworking spaces with attached childcare/preschools much sooner in my parenting journey. This community helped me solve a problem I had been stressing over for two years."
Paulina Roe (a Chicago mom, an on-air contributor on "The Fred Show," and the founder of Expand 👇 The Mami Collective, a media platform for ambitious mothers shared how a coworking space with on-site preschool changed her life and her parenting.
"I wish I had known about coworking spaces with attached childcare/preschools much sooner in my parenting journey. This community helped me solve a problem I had been stressing over for two years."
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