Week 23, 2026

Justin Raymond, Founder & CEO of Flexday, points out that teams of 10 or more consistently need fully private spaces with breakout areas, open workstations, and a kitchen for the day.

Most cities don’t have a ready product for this, so teams keep solving it from scratch every time. It’s a real gap that doesn’t fit neatly into existing categories like meeting rooms or event spaces.

Jude Nofal breaks down a very creative rollout by neobank Monzo. They recently introduced a mobile plan, that actually rewards loyalty by providing a 5% discount off each year you stay with them.

In a world where only new customers, and those trying to cancel, get offered discounts this is pretty refreshing. Could this be something you roll out into your coworking space?

I’ve been playing with an spreadsheet here to see if I could do something similar with Patron Status to further reward the brands who continue to support TWIC.

Paul Dutnall, CEO at Work.Life, argues that most career pages are just marketing fluff that hide the numbers candidates actually care about.

Work.Life just relaunched their careers site and made their internal People Hub public, sharing real data like tenure, attrition, pay gaps, and promotion rates. If you want candidates to trust you, consider publishing the stuff you’d normally keep internal.

Jerome Chang shares a Bisnow piece exploring the "new" Living As A Service shift happening in multifamily, comparing it to coliving and drawing a conclusion that we’ve seen time and time again when it comes to coworking.

In short: coliving is associated to "college dorms for adults", so big asset owners needed a new term, much like coworking was once only seen as a solution for freelancers and small teams.

We are already seeing resort brands and gym/lifestyle brands dip both feet into coworking + concierge living.

Bernie J Mitchell shared notes from the gathering of members of the European Coworking Assembly in Portugal. They discussed what actually makes coworking spaces work.

Key takeaways: your email list beats social media for building real community, and coworking alone rarely covers the bills so most operators run a second business to stay afloat.

Maggie O'Neill Business and Training Centre shares a sign they have outside their building offering virtual office addresses starting at £20/month.

While I do love a good sign, it’s the positioning of VOs for the local community "so you don’t have to put your home address on your business card" that I love. Well done Patrick Hemus, there are so many folks with home offices who would subscribe to VO products, who can then be invited to events and introduced to other members.

Your warmest leads are already in the building… This week Cobot picks up where Part 1 left off. How to turn repeat bookers into partners, build familiarity through recurring visits, and make every booking worth more than just the room fee. Part two of the external bookings series.

Coworks spoke with David DeWald, a 25-year online community management veteran at Ciena, about what coworking community managers can borrow from the digital world.

Key takeaways: actively surface "beneficial collisions" between members, recognize your space champions with small perks or titles, and build a peer knowledge network with other managers to share what works and what doesn’t. Resources like Carrie Melissa Jones, Bevy, The Community Roundtable, FeverBee, and Ember Consulting (run by Bri Leever) offer training that translates well, and The Creators Lab by Cat Johnson also gets a specific nod.

Not every space is a coworking space in the traditional sense. MakerSpace NYC runs workshops, studios, and fabrication spaces across three New York locations, serving everyone from hobbyists to professional artists. This week Cobot asked founder Scott van Campen what running the city’s biggest makerspace has taught him about community, trust, and member retention. Rosee Shrestha draws out the lessons that apply to any operator, from full makerspaces to spaces with a workshop in the corner.