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📰 Coworking news & views.
🤔 Does hot-desking deserve more respect? #
Often seen as the cheapest product in the portfolio, Carlos Almansa at Nexudus argues that hot desks still lie at the heart of your (and almost every) space.
👉 Read this.
💖 What V-day reminds us about intentional building “vibes” #
Sofia Stolberg shares what apparently small (but well planned) actions taken by the Piloto 151 team around Valentines Day reminded her about intentional community building, and the "vibes" it gives your spaces.
"It was a reminder that the strongest communities don’t just happen. They’re built through care, consistency, and effort. Vibes are meant to be effortful. And the hard work always pays off."
👉 Read this.
🧮 Do most operators need a full-time COO? #
Andrew Runnette from Biz Ops Studio makes the case that most operators do NOT need a full-time COO, but could leverage a fractional executive instead.
He also shares three ops walls that most operators hit, after having scaled Portal Warehousing from 1 to 7 locations.
Emerging trend: Fractional coworking leadership.
👉 Read this.
🦿 Should you AI-ify that? A gut-check guide… #
Everyone’s in a rush to AI-ify their business. But should that apply to everything? This article by Taylor Mason from Talemaker dives into 13 different content marketing functions, and explores whether or not they should be AI-first.
👉 Read this.
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💻 Coworking technology.
🧑💻 Can you use network data to run a smarter space? #
Cat Johnson Co and isofy share a piece on how treating connectivity purely as infrastructure is a missed opportunity.
👉 Read this.
🙌 Software to actually track community activity? #
Brandon Houston (who recently chatted with Hector Kolonas in this TWIC pod episode) shares that he’s begun building GathrOS because "coworking tech has been built by software people, not hospitality people" and to help operators make intangibles visible.
👉 Read this.
📈 Coworking data.
🇦🇺 Australian avg desk rates climb to $683 #
Rubberdesk share that Australia’s flexible office market has continued tightening in Q4 2025, with national desk rates rising 2.4% to $683 while available space contracted 8.8% to 139,990 sqm. The flight to quality persists, with operators rebalancing portfolios toward small-to-medium team configurations. Enterprise-scale space remains constrained as operators reconfigure larger suites into smaller, higher-margin formats to meet sustained demand.
👉 Read this.
🇪🇸 Madrid & Barcelona see 26% coworking supply growth #
Coworking Europe shares some data from local workspace aggregator Sit&Plug’s recent report.
They share that 22 new spaces opened across Madrid and Barcelona (adding 59k sqm) bringing the total stock to 660,000 sqm of flex space. Another notable figure is that the average location size has grown by 15% from 2024 to 2,677 sqm.
👉 Read this.
💸 Is a portfolio-wide pricing strategy failing you? #
Eyal Lasker shares an interesting case-study from a Flexspace client who saw two very different results of dynamic pricing and demand curve across two of their locations.
"Same operator. Same city. Completely different elasticity. Every location is a micro-market."
👉 Read this.
🌏 WOTSO’s flexspace rev climbs 7% to $16.9M #
WOTSO CEO Jessie Glew shared the publicly-listed firm’s financials for the 6-months leading up to December 31st.
In short, coworking expansion and member growth drove revenue across their 35 locations. Key financials also included total revenue is up 3% ($24.6M), EBITDA up 6% to $5.4M, ancillary coworking revenue up 31% and a drop of 7% in admin & overheads.
👉 Read this.
📶 Some 2026 numbers that matter + what to do with them #
There’s no shortage of coworking statistics online. The problem is that most of them tell you what’s "happening" in the market, but not what to do on Monday morning.
OfficeRnD put together an actionable guide on the key stats, some uncomfortable truths, and the new revenue battleground.
👉 Read this.
🤝 Coworking market moves.
🇩🇪 IWG moves to acquire Design Offices #
Coworking Europe reports that IWG is advancing with plans to acquire Design Offices, with the transaction currently under review by Germany’s competition authority.
The deal, if concluded, will add around 50 locations in 15 cities to IWG’s stable of brands and approx 4k locations in 120 countries. In 2024 Design Offices, which was founded in 2019, reported revenues of €142M.
👉 Read this.
🤠 Lucid swings into Nashville #
Lucid Private Offices are coming to Nashville, with a new location in midtown (near music row) opening in April.
👉 Read this.
⛹️♀️ Carr Workplaces arrives in The Loop #
Carr Workplaces have announced their new Chicago location at 20 N Clark St.
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🇬🇧 UK gets new REIT-powered flex operator #
Jo Moroney shares that Regional REIT are introducing a new flex brand called reflex, with it’s first location opening in Glasgow, Scotland.
👉 Read this.
🇺🇸 Werqwise adds 2 SF locations #
Werqwise announced two new SF locations in the heart of the Financial District (465 California St and 235 Pine St).
👉 Read this.
🇭🇰 CEO SUITE intros new sub-brand in Hong Kong #
Paul MacAndrew shares that CEO SUITE are set to debut a whole new brand (Work Wise) in Hong Kong in mid-2026.
👉 Read this.
🇺🇸 COhatch launching in Powell, Ohio #
Jenna Dray shares that COhatch‘s new Powell location is almost ready to open (with nearly 100 members already and just a few offices remaining).
👉 Read this.
🚴 Brooklyn gets another 11,500 sqft of Mindspace #
Josh Jeffers shares that Mindspace Williamsburg are adding another 11.5k sqft (set to open in Q3).
👉 Read this.
🇧🇪 Building re-activator tackles former EU commission offices #
brandspace[/brand] have announced two site reactivations.
The first brings a coworking café (under the Sün brand), meeting rooms, offices, and event space to the Brussimmo building (previously used by the European Commission and Parliament services). The second involves turning 3 floors of a former EY HQ into shared and dedicated workspaces, alongside a conference center and a food concept.
👉 Read this.
🎙 Coworking conversations.
On this week’s Future of Work Podcast, Frank Cottle spoke with Carlos Almansa, co-founder of Nexudus, about how AI, data, and automation are revolutionizing flexible workspace operations.
In this episode of the GCUC Podcast with Liz Elam, Espoir Michalek and Connor Michalek pull back the curtain on how they built Gevity, a bold new concept redefining coworking through wellness, recovery, and deeply intentional community.
Luke Wills (who has generated over $2M in new coworking revenue) joined Jamie Russo and Giovanni Palavicini on the Flex Uncensored podcast to share how he went from selling basketball tickets, to becoming Lucid Private Offices‘ sales powerhouse, to now teaching operators how to build outbound strategies.
Jamie Russo and Giovanni Palavicini sit down with Liz Elam, founder of GCUC and Link Coworking, for a conversation that spans everything from neurodiversity and AI to hospitality standards and why coworking should be the first industry to offer free mental health services.
Hannah Philp and ARC Club joins Bernie Mitchell to share how they’re are asking a different question: "What if the ground floor of every new residential building became a neighbourhood platform, not just retail space?"