ThisWeekIn Coworking

Week 50, 2020

3 weeks left of 2020, the coworking library challenge, supporting co.co.haus, and more in this week's coworking summary.

👋 Welcome to Week 50’s summary.  

Here’s what you may have missed this week in coworking….

🤯 So we’re already (finally) on week 50. 

That means there’s just 3 weeks left of 2020, and we are now deep into what is usually one of the slowest periods for coworking sector. 

During recent chats with community managers and operators, many shared that they’re feeling pretty tired, exhausted and burned out right now. And so, I invite you this week, with a lighter summary, to take a moment for yourselves.

It’s OK to feel like you do. It’s OK not to feel like you’re “smashing all the targets” and running the world’s “most engaged community” right now. It’s OK. 

Please try and make some time these weeks to do something for you. In the meantime we’ll all be here, and around, over the next few weeks and into 2021 to chat, reengage and start rebuilding again together.

On behalf of all your included ambassadors,

Hector Kolonas

📚 Join the Coworking Library Challenge and win for sharing.

The Coworking Library has launched a challenge alongside the RGCS to source, share and promote even more coworking research, with a focus on Inclusion, Diversity and Equality. 

👉 Learn more about this.

🇵🇷 Support coworking & local businesses in Puerto Rico.

The inspiring team at co.co.haus are receiving a 2x match from a local non-profit on any micro-loans they receive online. Lend anything from $25 and help them support local businesses with a state of the art multimedia studio.

👉 Read more about this here.

🖐 5 reasons coworking beats WFH.

When a community manager had to stay away from their space in the latest lockdowns, it reminded her about exactly why she loves coworking over working from home. 

👉 Read more about this here.

Share This Week's Summary

📆 Coworking events.

Dec 18: Coworking Convo: Virtual Tour Strategies to Attract Members.

👉 RSVP here.

🎙 Coworking podcasts.

Liz Elam chats with Jenny Poon about CO+HOOTS and creating equitable entrepreneurial ecosystems.

🎧 Listen to this.

Bernie Mitchell & Zeljko Crnjaković chat with Samantha Hulls about how Melting Pot are moving to virtual-only, for now.

🎧 Listen to this.

Jamie Russo chats with Trevor Hightower about Craftwork‘s coworking + coffee concept and their experimental partnerships with multi-family apartment buildings.

🎧 Listen to this.

Ashley Proctor chats with Bernie Mitchell & Zeljko Crnjaković about The Coworking Idea Project – pushing for a more inclusive, diverse and equal coworking industry.

🎧 Listen to this.

⌨️ This week's curator.

About This.

ThisWeekInCoworking.com is a weekly newsletter summarizing the coworking celebrations, stories, market moves, tech updates and discussions you may have missed.

Newsletters are curated by Hector Kolonas and made available for free via email or this website.

Share This.

Share on LinkedIn
Tweet this summary
Share via email
Share on Facebook
Send via WhatsApp
Share on Telegram

Other Summaries.

Week 38, 2023

This week we explore coworking ‘elements’ in CRE, offering podcast support, what hotels are missing about flex workspace, a new sustainability index, low-rise conversion, airport workspace competition and more. 

👉 Read this.

Week 35, 2023

This week we explore 20 steps to build great communities, an operator’s warning to landlords, an open-letter to WeWork, the US gov’s own coworking network, residential coworking in Germany, the growth of ‘alternative flex’, and more.

👉 Read this.

Week 34, 2023

This week we explore the only currency that matters, famous takeovers, terrible terms, corporate positioning, B-corps as secret weapons, a 65% drop in demand, and more.

👉 Read this.

Week 33, 2023

34 things you may have missed including flex space forecasting, how Dropbox leverages coworking, valuation techniques, childcare, phoenix moments, reinventing CRE, and predictions from 2016 and more.

👉 Read this.

Week 32, 2023

This week was a rollercoaster with shaky news from WeWork, record results from IWG, a global celebration of coworking, IKEA entering the sector, guides for starting spaces and picking tech, more market moves than you can shake a stick at and more!

👉 Read this.

Week 31, 2023

This week we look at a 15% avg price increase in UK, supporting caregivers, work clubs, marketing mailboxes, new-ish GBP rules, addressing the AI elephant in our boardrooms, JLL’s AI engine and more.

👉 Read this.

Week 30, 2023

This week’s summaries include a 10% bump in US coworking supply to 6,000+ locations, Barbie, childcare and coworking, Malaga sitting at 92% capacity and more.

👉 Read this.

Week 29, 2023

This week we explore how weak office markets are squeezing flex spaces, how to re-warm leads, pros/cons of coworking from 2017, that viral AI-salesperson video, a furniture-rental acquisition, and more.

👉 Read this.

Week 28, 2023

This week’s summaries include office-to-farm conversions, fare-free transit, Code Interpreter, 3 flex data-sets, 7 market moves and more.

👉 Read this.