Week 46, 2020

Welcome to Week 46's summary. Here's 6 stories, 3 videos, 3 conversations and 2 jobs you may have missed.This week we share stories about a new book, writing tips, AML/KYC, Gen Z, Greece and more.

📰 Coworking updates.

🙋‍♀️ New book explores coworking spaces built by, and for, women across Europe. 

Sisters in arms, women in search of inclusive coworking spaces – is a new book published by Ivanne Poussier 🇫🇷  (she/her) the CEO & Co-Founder of Ada Coworking 🇫🇷. 

Ivanne shares an analysis from both academic papers and 6 months of research from within 30 coworking spaces created by and for women across 22 cities in 13 countries.

The book touches on the landscape, the geographic spread, preferred color schemes, shared frustrations, motherhood & mannies, founder diversity, long-term sustainability and pioneering academic research around these spaces and their growing popularity.

👉 Read more about this book in the Coworking Library.

⏰ Creating a writing routine you’ll stick to.

Cat Johnson 🇺🇸 shares great tips on how to create a writing routine, even in the midst of the craziness we call 2020.

👉 Read more about this here.

🏙 Remote work is transforming how cities ‘think’. 

Brad Hargreaves 🇺🇸 shares a short but insightful piece into how the future of local economic development is about attracting workers.

👉 Read more about this here.

👮‍♂️ WTF is AML and KYC!?

Jeannine van der Linden 🇳🇱 shares her experiences, insights and frustrations after spending months and tonnes of cash dealing with compliance questions from government agents.

With coworking becoming the norm, we explore why knowing who is actually using your space is not only the law, but good for business.

👉 Read more about this here.

🧩 What Gen Z want from their workspaces.

So what does Gen Z (folks born between 1997 and 2012) want? What drives them? And how different are they really from Millennials?

A wide-ranging study led by Decision Lab and Dreamplex 🇻🇳 set out to find out.

👉 Read more about this here.

🇬🇷 New tax-breaks to work-from-anywhere-ers.

After winning international praise for it’s handling of the pandemic, Greece has a new incentive plan to try and reverse their brain-drain and attract remote workers. 

A possible long-term win for local coworking communities and entrepreneurship.

👉 Read more about this here.

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📹 Coworking videos.

Christy Alexander 🇺🇸 shared a live video about WorkSmart‘s exciting news, their story and the town she loves to support. 

📹 Watch this here.

Tuesday Coworking 🇩🇪 shared a clever video demonstrating their workspace safety measures.

📹 Watch this here.

Mercedes Howard 🇺🇸 guest hosts ‘Fresh Bread News’ covering some huge real estate funding and M&A headlines.

📹 Watch this here.

💼 Coworking jobs.

Cohere 🇺🇸 (Fort Collins, CO) is hiring a part-time community manager.

👉 Check this out here.

Impact Working 🇬🇧 (Bristol, UK) is hiring a full-time building/community manager.

👉 Check this out here.

🎙 Coworking podcasts.

Pilar Orti 🇬🇧 chats with Bernie Mitchell 🇬🇧 & Zeljko Crnjaković 🇷🇸 chat about how collaboration actually works in world of remote working.

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Jamie Russo 🇺🇸 dives into The Pareto principle, or identifying which 20% of your activities drive 80% of your results.

🎧 Listen to this.

Liz Elam 🇺🇸 chats with Nick Clark 🇺🇸 about Common Desk’s past, present & future, and their acquisition of Link Coworking.

🎧 Listen to this.

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💫 Who's hiring?

🌍 infinitSpace is hiring an International Expansion Manager in London or Amsterdam

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🌍 infinitSpace is hiring a Brand & Marketing Director in London or Amsterdam

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🇺🇸 iPostal1 Workspace are hiring a Director of Business Development (US remote)

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🇺🇸 The Shop Workspace‘s parent company is hiring for an Events Manager in New York City, NY.

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🇺🇸 BLANKSPACES is hiring an Event Coordinator in Westside, LA

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🇺🇸 Lucid Private Offices are hiring a Community Coordinator in Scottsdale, Arizona.

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🇺🇸 Lucid Private Offices are hiring a Community Coordinator in Forth Worth, Texas.

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🇺🇸 Lucid Private Offices are hiring a Community Coordinator in Alpharetta, Georgia.

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