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🤫 Are spaces (still) failing neurodivergent workers?
Amanda Perry posted about a frustrating day at a coworking space where noise, eating at desks, and Expand 👇 no quiet alternatives made it nearly unusable, pointing out that around 55% of business owners identify as neurodivergent.
It hit a nerve, sparking 170+ comments. Commenters including Danielle Wallington of flockhere, Stephen Phillips of Neighbors & Nomads, and Paul Nellist of Koba noted that simple zoning (quiet rooms, call booths, social areas) already works where it’s being done intentionally. BUT a lot of other commenters also shared that they found similarly frustrating setups (or lack thereof) at their local hubs.
🗞 Week 22, 2026
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💡 Coco CEO shares 7 leadership lessons from recent conference
Colleen Moselle, CEO of Coco, shared business takeaways from her time at this month’s Global Expand 👇 Workspace Association conference.
The insights emphasized that brand identity stems from customer experience rather than visual identity, engagement drives loyalty through meaningful participation opportunities, and authentic storytelling with real people outperforms data-driven marketing alone. Additional themes included the importance of emotionally intelligent leadership, tracking metrics beyond occupancy such as utilization and retention, adopting collaborative rather than competitive strategies, and leveraging AI for automation while preserving human connection and creativity. (Philip Cohen from Workuity also gets a shout out)
🗞 Week 44, 2025
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🛋️ IKEA-backed circular-economy furniture rental startup raises €50M
Danish-Swedish furniture-as-a-service company NORNORM secured €50M in mixed equity and debt from Expand 👇 existing investors including Inter IKEA, Verdane, Banco Santander, and Philian Invest (H&M heir Karl-Johan Persson’s investment vehicle), bringing total capital raised to €170M. Founded in 2020 by former IKEA executive Anders Munk Jepsen and Skype co-creator Jonas Kjellberg, Nornorm rents office furniture to businesses on flexible subscription basis with six-month cancellation notice, focusing on easily refurbished pieces sent to warehouses for repair and re-rental.
The company more than doubled revenue in 2024 from €1.47M to €3.11M and achieved profitability for the first time, operating a circular business model where reuse and refurbishment directly improve margins rather than encouraging higher material consumption.
🗞 Week 41, 2025
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⏱ 253 days ago.
🎉 An activity-based redesign of networking events
Jamie Dundas, Managing Director of Good Space, shared how advice from an event expert transformed Expand 👇 their event design philosophy. A quote about creating "gatherings that I wish existed in the world" led the team to acknowledge their own discomfort at traditional networking events. Rather than forcing conversation, they developed a gamified checklist giving attendees multiple activities to choose from, providing easy conversation starters and exit strategies.
The approach proved successful with several attendees completing the entire checklist and expressing enjoyment. This shift away from "traditionally dreadful" networking formats towards creating events that address social anxiety can provide structure for meaningful interactions.
🗞 Week 30, 2025
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⏱ 330 days ago.
🙋‍♀️ Ever heard of “permeable coworking”?
In a recent LinkedIn post, Phil Kirschner argued that most leaders misunderstand coworking as merely Expand 👇 real estate flexibility and cost savings, instead of embracing the concept of "permeable coworking" – originally identified by JLL in 2016 and framed by Serendipity Labs as breaking down walls between "us" and "them" to create innovation opportunities.
He references examples including Michigan Central and Atlassian, emphasizing that leading companies should expand their "surface area of ideas" by leveraging shared workplace concepts to accelerate innovation.
🗞 Week 24, 2025
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⏱ 372 days ago.

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