🎉 Coworking celebrations.
🙋♀️ The March Coworking IDEA challenge is #ChooseToChallenge.
The March Coworking IDEA (Inclusivity, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility) Challenge is facilitated by Women Who Cowork and invites coworking spaces to challenge gender inequality in their communities.
🇿🇦 New Joburg coworking space officially opens.
Workshop17 have announced the official opening of The Bank in Johannesburg in South Africa.
📰 Coworking updates.
💳 AMEX adds 150,000 bookable spaces to their biz travel portal.
American Express has announced a partnership and integration with Meetingsbooker to bring 150,000 bookable workspaces and meeting rooms into their Global Business Travel portal’s Meeting Express platform.
I’m a huge believer that partnerships like this are not only obvious, but will be increasingly more popular as the decision-makers re: office space shift. And I definitely haven’t been alone in seeing this huge opportunity.
💪 Why coworking spaces matter so much in small towns.
Kate Schwarzler of Indy Commons shared her 4 top reasons why rural coworking matters via CORI (Center on Rural Innovation).
I love that Kate touches on hyperlocal economic impact ; community for remote workers; improving quality of life; and elevating the culture of local entrepreneurship.
💰 Local coworking space discounts access for womxn to ‘give back the gap’.
Whilst the gap between what men and women earn is slowly decreasing, the tuesday coworking team have shared that they don’t want to wait till 2086 for equal pay to be achieved. So they’re ‘giving back the gap’.
This month they announced an ongoing discount for freelancers, entrepreneurs and solopreneurs who identify as women. This 19% discount corresponds to the 2020 unadjusted gender wage gap in Germany.
They’ve invited spaces nearby, and across the world, to join in and help close the pay gap.
🤙 Key learnings from BE.Spoke (UK) and The Executive Center (APAC).
Robert Kropp from Syncaroo shares key learnings and insights from both Jonathan Weinbrenn from BE.Spoke and Chelsea Perino from The Executive Center in the 7th of his 8-part series with allwork.space
Just a few topics they discuss are the changes in flexibility, compared self-delivery vs space-as-a-service, changing landlord focus and how new demand compares to their current/previous products.
🛍 Workspaces in retail mixed-use locations in suburban & rural markets.
Mark Dixon of IWG announced that they’d be launching new Spaces locations in retail (or mixed-use) locations to bring flex workspaces into more suburban and rural markets.
Whilst this trends with what we’re seeing from retail/mall developers like Westfield and others, increasing footfall to retail locations through flex workspaces, it’s interesting to see it applied outside of urban centers.
💡 Has ‘coworking’ just become ‘working’ yet?
Christoph Fahle of betahaus and One Coworking shares ‘coworking’ is becoming a standard for what people now just call ‘working’, and what that means for the industry.
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💻 Coworking technology.
Desana announced on LinkedIn that they’re now able to connect corporates to flex workspace in 30 countries.
🎙 Coworking conversations.
Gunnar Branson chats with Dror Poleg about the significant changes in the real estate industry, and what happens next.
Liz Elam chats with Aassia Haq about the importance of optimism during this time of extreme flux, the Texas snowmageddon, and 2021 being all about resilience.
Pauline Roussel chats with Anders Moller about how he ended up taking over a 15 sqm (not a typo) coworking space, the business model and why they shut down.
This time Nellie Hayat is Mike Petrusky‘s guest and they discuss ideas about the future of work and how workplace leaders can have a positive impact on employee experience.
📆 Coworking events.
5 Mar: “Making coworking inclusive, diverse, equitable and accessible” First Friday Call with the European Coworking Assembly.
8 Mar: “International Women’s Day 2021: #ChooseToChallenge inqeuality in coworking” call with Women Who Cowork.
17 Mar: “Create a newsletter your members will love” coaching session.
26 Mar: “How to attract (and keep) a great community manager” Coworking Convo.
15 Apr: “Coworking Symposium” joint scholarly & industry half-day conf. on coworking & flex workspaces.
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