Throughout 2025, we had the true privilege of supporting great coworking people around the world.
Many automated specific aggregators.
Others ensured CRMs stayed in-sync.
Some automated access or WiFi provisioning.
A handful broke accounting bottlenecks.
Several dove (deep) into data strategies.
A few improved team onboarding.
But ALL of these moves were made to unblock your peers. So on their behalf, thank you!
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▶️ 25-ish Minute Weekly Recap
🎉 Coworking celebrations
🎂 The Village Hive turns 10! #
Congratulations to The Village Hive, Charlotte Kirby, Monica Hecht and the whole community.
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📰 Coworking news & views.
💡 A 13.2M view video trend you could dance to #
You may have seen this trend on your fav short-form video app (did I just age myself by calling them short-form video apps?!). In short: put up a sign that says "dance in for cake", set up someone to capture reactions and dances, give cake. This law firm racked up 13,200,000+ views, but it’d be a great way to show how/if your community likes having fun, dancing and/or cake.
👉 Read this.
☕️ CRE Advisor becomes (self-proclaimed) “coworking junkie” #
Marc Feldman at Stream Realty Partners explores how Switchyards solved the ‘experience’ gap’ and made him excited to head into a coworking space.
The 4 examples he shares are the power of "low-friction" rituals, radical simplicity over luxury, energy is a tenant requirement, and high privacy, low profile.
👉 Read this.
🤔 Are we doing it wrong? #
Scott Anderson breaks down the one thing he can say with certainty, after nearly a decade building, operating, and closing coworking spaces: "We’re doing it wrong."
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🐟 Could we be rushing back to fishbowls? #
Xavier Starkloff asks if voice-powered AI agents and a "silence tax" could kill the open office.
If more and more people are orchestrating agents by talking to them, this may not lead us to rows and rows of fishbowls just yet – but it could mean that demand for private spaces, day offices, meeting rooms and call booths may surge.
👉 Read this.
🛏️ The next big amenity out of APAC? Nap boxes. #
Tashi Dorjee shares that standing "Nap Boxes" are now a $100M+ market in Japan.
The productivity increase? 34% post-nap.
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🫣 Founder cafes are a warning sign for coworking #
Cat Johnson digs into the phenomenon of people leaving flex-but-called-coworking spaces to create and join places… that… are actually living up to the definition of coworking.
👉 Read this.
🙋 Every business grows or dies 1 customer at a time #
Sofia Stolberg shares a truth she’s always held close to her heart throughout her entrepreneurial journey.
"The thing is that as you grow, systems break. What got you here, won’t get you there. And sometimes, the perfect storm of misunderstandings, context and broken processes can come together to produce a negative experience for a client. In these moments, as an entrepreneur, once you’re brought up to speed, you have 1 of 2 choices…"
👉 Read this.
🚨 On community managers as de factor wardens… #
James Bolton explores how, in an emergency, it’s assumed that community managers will step up and explores the risks and limitations of this assumption.
👉 Read this.
👋 GWA adds two industry experts to Board of Directors #
The GWA welcomes Carly Bedini (iQ Offices) and Kurt Patrick (essensys) to their Board of Directors.
"Both bring deep industry expertise, complementary perspectives, and a shared commitment to advancing the flexible workspace industry through leadership, collaboration, and community." Yes. Yes they do!
👉 Read this.
👩🎨 On personas and personalizing your message… #
This week’s Coworking Marketing Weekly by Cobot looks at why coworking personas matter and how they help spaces communicate more clearly.
They explore how understanding your members better makes it easier to know what to say, where to say it, and how your message lands.
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🧮 Will coworking work here? A 12-point framework #
How can you tell if your building is viable for a profitable coworking operation? In the latest episode of his Flex in Five series, Launch Workplaces CEO Mike Kriel explains his proprietary 12-point criteria for predicting success.
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💻 Coworking technology.
🤳 Platform releases new mobile app for admins #
A lot of coworking tech firms updated their mobile apps in 2025, but this update by Spacebring which almost slipped by us, focussed on a different side of coworking mobile apps: the operators. Nicely done team Spacebring!
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🦾 How LinkedIn deals with their workplace data problem #
Courtney Skyrme, Senior Director, Head of Workplace Data and Analytics at LinkedIn digs into how they built a Workspace Assistant called TARA to tackle their data problem.
"Workplace and Corporate Real Estate teams have a data problem. Not a lack of data. The challenge is having too much of it, spread across spreadsheets, tools, and vendor systems, and turning it into insight quickly enough to matter. When pulling information together takes time, decisions around space planning, utilization, and how work evolves slow down."
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📈 Coworking data.
🇪🇸 Cloudworks hits €13.5M in revenue #
The team at Cloudworks share that in 2025 they grew revenue by 17.4%, while aiming for a €15+ 2026.
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🤝 Coworking market moves.
🇫🇷 More French landlords shift to owner-operators #
Philippe Morel shares that to support this shift, they’re introducing a new offering called Dynamic Workplace to help market and fill these operators workspaces.
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🇱🇹 Italian group resumes expansion with second Vilnius hub #
After a years-long pause on international expansion, Italian coworking group Talent Garden are opening their second location in the Lithuanian capital. This follows the success of their first location in the city, that launched in 2020.
The location is being opened by INVL Baltic Real Estate.
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🇬🇧 Operator shows of new London location #
Andy Issott shows off the Artesian Building by BE Offices that is opening in April.
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🇦🇺 Sneak-peak of One Two Five by Hub #
John Preece shares a few candid photos of Hub Australia‘s new 8,000 sqm location in partnership with Brookfield Properties.
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🇫🇷 Operator adds 20k sqm to become second largest in France #
Coworking Europe shares that Morning have announced plans to add 15-20k sqm during 2026. This follows a year of new openings, with 3 new locations already confirmed (2x Annecy and 1x Paris).
Missed their growth? Morning operate 54 locations at time of publication, hosting ~15k desks.
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🇳🇱 Club Strozzi unveils its “professional living room” concept #
Club Strozzi gives us a glimpse of their stylish and comfortable workspace concept opening on Amsterdam Zuidas.
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🇺🇸 EXPANSIVE opening new Bay Area location #
Carly Erickson shared that EXPANSIVE‘s new San Mateo location is opening next week.
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🇳🇱 beyond Zuidtoren in Amsterdam to double in size workspace #
infinitSpace has announced that beyond Zuidtoren, in the Hoofddorp area of Amsterdam, will be doubling in size.
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🎙 Coworking conversations.
Matt Flood, development director and head of commercial development at Related Argent joins BCO chief executive Samantha McClary to talk about the firm’s Brent Cross project (which is 3x the size of King’s Cross, will deliver an entirely new settlement in the London borough of Barnet, and include ~3M sqft of offices)
A good (short) watch on how Mark Dixon one of the industry’s public multi-brand operators (IWG) explains what they (and we) do to folks in the financial industry.
In Episode 21 of 2 Marketers and a Coworking Podcast, Kevin Whelan and Taylor Mason dive into why video is becoming an essential marketing asset, how it drives disproportionate ROI, five ways to use video in your marketing strategy, and why it’s not as hard to do as you might think.
Javier Garcia Iza from IOS OFFICES gives a fascinating TEDx talk about investor-less growth and how the true engine of growth is four timeless pillars: a culture that builds a sense of belonging and engagement; a reputation earned through meaningful moments with customers and employees; quality, which means doing things right- even if it requires extraordinary effort; and money, not as a goal, but as a natural outcome of value creation.
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