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Ever wondered how much other workspaces near you were making after their first year of partnership with Alliance Virtual Offices?
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✊ Coworking impact
🙋♀️ Aussie network also takes aim at Gender Pay Gap #
For International Women’s Day, Hub Australia are offering women-led businesses a 21.1% discount on some of their products throughout March. Why 21.1%? That’s the Australian national gender pay gap.
ICYMI, tuesday coworking in Germany, also offer a "gender pay gap discount". Doing something similar (or different) for IWD? Let us know.
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📰 Coworking news & views.
🎯 Coworking isn’t “back”… #
… it’s taking over! Tobi Skovron shares thoughts around how something big has shifted in the way orgs think about space, culture and performance.
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⭐️ When’s the last time you shared your North Star? #
In this post Karen Tait shared the North Start that’s been guiding her journey and decision-making while building The Residence in Hertfordshire over the last 8 years.
The post that covers their Mission, Vision and Values, has gathered 80+ reactions, and comments of support from members, partners and coworking leaders across the globe. Maybe it’s time to shout about what guides you too?
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👀 Pro-tip: Your members are watching #
If you’re not introducing people and setting a norm that members know and support each other, it is just not going to magically happen. Cat Johnson shares that even worse, by not creating a norm of connection, you’re actually saying that disconnection is the expectation.
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🔥 Are team suites now the hottest flex product? #
Kayley DiCicco shared an observation that demand for team suites spiked in the latter half of 2025, while traditional open plan or on-demand sales declined.
The thread kicked off a wide-reaching discussion, with 40+ comments from across the industry at time of curation.
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📹 On turning attention into community #
Cobot explores how local visibility is only the beginning of becoming part of your neighborhood and how some coworking spaces are turning attention into community. They also share a creative example from the AVJam initiative.
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Daniel Wesson from CoLevelAI shares how they zigged away from a management agreement in the traditional sense, to a setup that has the coworking operator manage the whole building – and how it worked out for both of them and the landlord.
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🇿🇦 Flexibility reshaped coworking in South Africa #
Louis Fourie from Venture Workspace shares how flexibility, and the way South Africans work, has reshaped demand for coworking spaces like theirs.
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🔨 5 ways to break over-reliance on key team members #
Andrew Runnette shares five ways they made sure that community managers did not to be constantly online across 7 locations.
In short: Async-first comms, default to messages, escalate only where necessary. But the post breaks down what that looks like in practice.
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☑️ 3 operational missteps many of us are still making #
Jana Greer shares the three common operational missteps she still sees since getting into the coworking industry in 2015.
In short: overcustomization of software, not planning for adoption time, and scaling without a plan.
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🤔 Do all those ‘little touches’ ever get noticed? #
The best coworking spaces design with intention, adding ‘little touches’ to make members’ experiences delightful. Often, we wonder if anyone even notices them.
In this post, Jules Robertson shares the two best things about having an office at work.life. 1. Free breakfast every day. 2. The "little thing" of having a nook to put these nibbles and coffe on when moving through doorways. The little "can we lend a helping hand" sign? Chefs kiss!
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🪧 Operator refreshes brand with “Work Local” focus #
WOTSO have introduced their refreshed brand and positioning, adopting a new "work local" slogan.
CEO Jessie Glew says their strategic focus on suburban and regional locations began in 2014 when WOTSO opened its first coworking space in Neutral Bay, quickly followed by another at North Strathfield. The network now has 39 locations; 34 of which are in suburban and regional communities across Australia and New Zealand.
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🥵 Members who sweat together, stay together? #
Garry James (CMO at FOUNDRY) shares some learnings from running the firm’s 5k run cub (pun intended).
Not only did they gain new members, attendees also created genuine friendships that expanded outside of the workspace and led to some doing business together.
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⛔️ Are frustrations more operational than cultural? #
Coworking issues usually aren’t cultural, but systemic says Kate Tattersfield for Nexudus. She explores why booking, payment and access user journeys matter more than most operators may realize.
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🇺🇸 IO opens new location in Manassas #
Intelligent Office has opened a new location in Manassas, VA. The space is owned by husband-and-wife partners Anthony Diaz-Rodriguez and Veronica Flores.
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💻 Coworking technology.
🖨️ Platform brings printing (and print server) internally #
The team at Deskie put out a pair of updates around improving printing for their customers, and those spaces’ members.
What’s interesting here, is that one of the releases "Deskie Print" allows members to print via their browser, without needing to download drivers, juggle network connections or have additional credentials. In the background, this connects to Deskie Print Server, which can be installed on any always-on device or by using a one-time purchased hardware device.
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🤨 Is coworking tech pricing backwards? #
As Anne-Marie Murphy closes in on her first year at Basworx (and selling software in the coworking industry), she shared the quiet part out loud.
In short, a lot of software is priced on number of members. But is increasing the price based on marketing, sales and community success the best way to price software?
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🤫 essensys founder aims to take firm private #
ReedSmith share that they’re advising Mark Furness and the "essensys Bidco Limited" company on their £11.3M takeover bid for essensys plc.
Some backstory: essensys was founded in 2006 (by Mark Furness), went public on the AIM in 2019. The Bidco is a newly incorporated company formed specifically for the purpose of making the take-private offer.
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💳 E-com heats up with zero-commission offering #
Nexudus has launched NexCommerce, to help coworking spaces convert enquiries into revenue on the spot. Online checkout journeys capture payment and consent upfront, all within the Members Portal, and they put zero-commission up front and center in the new offering.
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🧮 Spacebring simplifies their pricing #
The team at Spacebring shared their new simpler pricing plans, which not only make it easier to pick which options works for your business, but also makes most of their premium tools available to a wider set of spaces.
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📈 Coworking data.
🇬🇧 Managed Offices reshaping London flex market #
Rubberdesk‘s Q4 2025 London Flexible Office report shows that managed offices now command a 40% rate premium over serviced pace (£805 vs £575 per desk). While available space for Serviced shrunk by 7.3% in Q4, Managed spaces grew 5.5% as London’s landlords continue to convert more stock into managed format.
Their definitions: Serviced offices (also coworking spaces) are multi-desk offices where amenities are shared and rented short-term. Managed offices are standalone spaces where amenities and branding are specific to the business and rented short term. The latter would usually have their own entrance but may still share access to end of trip or gym facilities in the same building with other managed or leased offices.
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📍 1 in 5 members using roaming access #
Sarah Travers delivers another (gold) nugget of insight, sharing that at Workbar around 20% of their members use the built-in perk of being able to work from any of their locations. What’s most interesting is that this is up 25% year-over-year.
Sarah also breaks down what this could tell us about how many people are picking where, when and how they work.
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🤝 Coworking market moves.
🐣 Blackstone invests in child-friendly members’ club #
The Times covers how Blackstone are investing £100M into OurHouse, which runs members’ club for families in London.
Founded by Charlie Gardiner in 2022 to create an alternative to pricey playdates and freezing playgrounds, they’re now expanding across London, with new Houses in East Sheen, Clapham and Chiswick.
James Seppala, head of European real estate at Blackstone, told the Times: “We got so excited by the business because it offers this incredible and relatively affordable combination of things that everyone wants — gyms, fitness classes, co-working (sic) spaces, food and beverage, childcare facilities.”
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😳 Vast Coworking Group acquired by PE firm #
Vast Coworking Group has been acquired by private equity firm New State Capital Partners as a carve-out from United Franchise Group. This deal marks a strategic move by Vast co-founder and CEO Jason Anderson as demand for flexible workspace continues to rapidly evolve and grow.
At time of acquisition Vast – which is one of the world’s largest coworking networks and comprised of leading concepts Venture X, Office Evolution, and Intelligent Office – leverages a franchise model. It has over 200 locations and spans approx. 2.7 million square feet, serving roughly 70,000 members worldwide.
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🇦🇹 YOUR OFFICE merged into Vision Decision #
Tihomir Bajci shares that Vision Decision have acquired YOUR OFFICE.
Background: The former is a real estate owner-manager that offers shared offices and coworking spaces across 3 Vienna and Ljubljana. The latter operates serviced and flex spaces across 7 Vienna offices and has been running since 1997.
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👋 New prez at Industrious #
Gentry Long steps into the role of President at Industrious as Anna Levine moves into a new role within CBRE.
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🇺🇸 Multi-unit owners acquire 4 DFW locations #
Kevin & Geidre Priddy have acquired and are converting four existing coworking locations bringing their flex portfolio to a total of more than 125K square feet across Plano, Addison, and Fort Worth.
The spaces were purchased from Plano-based landlord Michael Comegys, who is stepping back from direct operations to refocus on his core commercial real estate business – a move that reflects a broader trend of landlords partnering with specialized operators to stabilize and enhance office assets amid ongoing hybrid work shifts.
Rather than developing new space, the Priddys are repositioning already-built coworking locations (formerly operating under another brand) into Venture X franchises. The Priddys began building their portfolio in Florida in 2022 and have since expanded to seven Venture X and Office Evolution locations.
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🤠 25N teases new Dallas location this summer #
Meagan Slavin, Mecca Shannon and I believe Mara Hauser show a sneak peak of their new Dallas location opening this summer. If you look very (very) closely, you may also see a cameo by Giovanni Palavicini.
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🇨🇦 Pavilion opening new Calgary hub #
Pavilion Cowork are officially opening their Pavilion Courthouse 6 Ave destination in downtown Calgary on March 12th.
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🇮🇳 JustCo opens first space in India #
Wan Sing Kong shares that JustCo have officially expanded into their 8th market.
The launch of The Collective in Gurugram brings the APAC-focussed firm into the massive Indian coworking market, where we’ve already shared that they’ve also scheduled openings in Bengaluru and Mumbai.
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🏌️♀️ Clubhouse chip in new Cherry Creek location #
Clubhouse Work & Golf have announced an expansion to Denver’s Cherry Creek neighborhood.
The new 23k+ sqft location is set to open late summer of 2026, and follows the Greenwood Village location hitting 100% capacity in just over a year.
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🇦🇺 YoCo launches new Brisbane space #
Yusuf Oner shares that YoCo newest space will be in the Brisbane CBD, offering 3 floors of coworking at 70 Eagle Street.
This space, called Alcove, is the team’s 6th space in the city.
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💰 Co-warehousing firm secures $100M+ for acquisitions #
Nathaniel Neman shares that Portal Warehousing have closed a deal with GCM Grosvenor to fund over $100M in industrial building purchases.
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🇺🇸 IWG debuts Spaces brand in Nevada #
Jeff Doughman (CEO of N.America at IWG) shared that the firm was opening the first Spaces location in Las Vegas, and the state of Nevada.
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🇬🇧 COLONY hints at new Kinds Street location #
The team at COLONY have shared that their newest Manchester location will be on King St, right in the CBD.
(PS. COLONY team: no hyphen please)
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🎙 Coworking conversations.
Hector Kolonas and Tonya Surman eloquently traverse her 22+ years of experiences, challenges, and triumphs in establishing the Centre for Social Innovation (CSI), offering invaluable insights into the evolution of coworking spaces and the sustaining power of community.
TWIC just released our first music single, all about why coworking does not have a hyphen. It’s terrible, but apparently catchy, according to the stats a whole bunch of us have it on repeat.
(PS. Want the MP3 version of it, or a link to add it to your Spotify? Let me know haha)
In this episode of The Flex Factor podcast, host Marc Navarro sits down with Alejandro Papadopoulos, founder of PAU in Barcelona, to pull back the curtain on how a 10-year-old creative hub stays ahead of the curve.
Matty Lawrence, Founder of Happy Spaces, shares how coworking spaces can become thriving communities rather than just places to rent a desk, and lessons from eight years of running spaces across regional Australia.
In this episode of 2 Marketers and a Coworking Podcast, Justin Moran shares the tools, tactics and mindsets that went into growing Workspace from one to five locations.
In this episode of Flex in Five, Mike Kriel from Launch Workplaces breaks down what the "perfect building" looks like in today’s office market, and why owners should think of it as an ecosystem that feeds itself.