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Week 11, 2021

This week we saw the release of the WeWork documentary trailer, a discussion on management agreements, some thoughts on coworking v2 (or v4?), and more news.

πŸŽ‰ Coworking celebrations.

πŸŽ‚ coho celebrates 8 years of coworking in Greece.

coho – the coworking home was founded by Fofi Mimi-Saltiel in 2013 in Thessaloniki, and now support 3 coworking communities in Greece.

🌴 Puerto Rico community adds 5000sqft of coworking.

co.co.haus announced a New HQ location featuring another 5,000 square feet of coworking space in San Juan.

πŸ‘‰ Celebrate this.Β 

✌️ Two more coworking spaces join global coworking perks network. 

Welcoming Leeway in Hyderabad, India and Apis Coworking in Osasco, Brazil into the global included network.Β 

πŸ‘‰ Join this.Β 

πŸ“° Coworking updates.

πŸ™ˆ Official trailer for WeWork documentary released online.

Hulu released a 2.5min trailer for their upcoming WeWork documentary… which well… just needs to be seen.Β 

Whilst most of the story is known (or so we believe), this documentary could cause ripples in the confidence in, or the reputation of, the coworking sector.

πŸ‘‰ Watch this.

πŸ“ƒ A primer discussion about on management agreements.

Barbara Sprenger (Satellite Deskworks & The Satellite Centers) and Robbin Orbison (CapeSpace & PopDesk) share the benefits, risks and advice around one of coworking’s biggest topics, Management Agreements, in part 1 of a three part series.Β 

The topic of Management Agreements has come up in almost every TWIC discussion for a few weeks now, and was also featured twice in last week’s summaries.

πŸ‘‰ Read this.

πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ German coworking spaces mapped and counted.

Tobias Kremkau shares how the German ‘CoworkingMap‘ project have published some of the first publicly available numbers around just how many coworking spaces there are in the country.

According to these numbers there are now just over 700 coworking spaces, and the list excludes business centers, serviced offices and shared offices – counting only those with present community management.

πŸ‘‰ Read this.

πŸƒβ€β™€οΈ Commercial real estate is just catching up to modern biz needs.

Against the backdrop of challenges facing some of the largest coworking brands/chains, Joe Brady (The Instant Group) shares insights into what they see as ‘coworking v2.0’, a sturdier version of the concept designed for a post-COVID world.

In summary they expect to see increased comfort with turnkey HQs and a demand for suburban satellites hubs. Given that Instant works with corporates, it’s an insightful read into what those kinds of tenants are looking for.Β 

πŸ‘‰ Read this.

🌳 3 ways coworking helps SMBs be even more sustainable. 

Katharine Chestnut shares three ways that coworking spaces can become part of small businesses’ sustainability and eco-conscious strategies.

From saved resources (and reduced waste) to less commuting and lower costs – this is a great example of reminding small businesses that there’s more than one benefit of coworking.

πŸ‘‰ Read this.

🏑 Ultra-suburban coworking saved a business 60% in office costs.

codi shared a use-case on how a customer used their network of daytime workspaces within private homes to safely engage their 115 NYC remote employees, without long-term leases.Β 

πŸ‘‰ Read this.

πŸ“š Journal on how org of work has changed, added into Library.

Ina Krause’s 8 page journal analyzing how the organization of work has changed, has been added to the Coworking Library database.Β 

πŸ‘‰ Read this.

πŸ’° Investment needed to make hub-and-spoke model actually work.

Paul Bubny makes the case that the only way for suburban hubs to work for larger corporations, is if they can invest into expansion, with most of these ‘secondary’ locations often unable to offer 30 desks. Let alone 60+ corporations may need.

πŸ‘‰ Read this.

🧾 Another CRE SPAC announced.

Cushman & Wakefield announced that they too were creating a ‘blank-check’ company. This Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC) is raising $250M to take a company public through a merger.Β 

What differentiates this from previous CRE SPACs is that Cushman isn’t necessarily targeting property tech (proptech) companies.

πŸ‘‰ Read this.

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πŸ’» Coworking technology.

πŸ›‘ Proptech co shares how they’re building trust into data syncing.

Syncaroo shared the first part of the ‘tackling complexity’ series, focussing on how authentication & authorization are addressed and scaled to make data-syncing between workspace tech platforms trustable.Β 

πŸ‘‰ Read this.

β˜•οΈ $2.5m raised to connect remote workers to underused space.

WorkChew announced that they raised a round of funding to connect more remote workers with restaurants and hotels with underutilized space. The startup positions themselves as offering workers ‘something in between’ a coworking membership and free coffee shop.Β 

πŸ‘‰ Read this.

πŸ†• Public property management SaaS introduces ‘flex platform’.

EssensysΒ introduced their new Flex Services Platform via a press release, featuring comments from Industrious.Β 

πŸ‘‰ Read this.

#️⃣ Startup brings one-click space bookings right into Slack.Β 

Pult launched a new Track feature bringing WFA check-in logging, one-click workspace bookings, who’s in checking, and more into Slack workrooms.

πŸ‘‰ Read this.

πŸ’° New $100M proptech fund announced by Canadian VC firm.Β 

Greensoil Proptech Ventures have announced their second fund focussing on investing into property technology (proptech) startups. An affiliate of Starlight Investments, who manage a $20bn commercial and multi-family real estate portfolio, are also backers of the new fund.Β 

πŸ‘‰ Read this.

πŸŽ™ Coworking conversations.

Bernie Mitchell chats with Dr. Janet Merkel a guest professor for Urban & Regional Economics at the Uni. of Kassel in Germany about her research into coworking, and it’s value to freelancers and the industry during the pandemic.Β 

🎧 Listen to this.

Caleb Parker andΒ Daan van Rossum chat about how Dreamplex in Vietnam delivers workspace-experience-as-a-service.Β 

🎧 Listen to this.

πŸ“† Coworking events.

26 Mar: “Attracting (and keeping) a great community manager” Coworking Convo.

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30 Mar: “IDEA Challenge Discussion” call.

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7 Apr: “Intro to Flexible Workspace” free preview of new The Fundamentals of Flexspace 4-week course.

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15 Apr: “Coworking Symposium” joint scholarly & industry half-day conf. on coworking & flex workspaces.

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