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✊ Coworking impact.
🇬🇧 Founder of coworking space in Nottingham asks for help
Starting and growing a coworking space and community is hard. You know it. Recently Jessica Berry asked for some support via LinkedIn for The Co-Working Clubhouse in what they describe is a make or break couple of months.
If you can, please do pop by and see if you can share or contribute, even if it’s just supportive words from fellow operators or professionals around the world.
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Coworking news & views.
🇿🇦 Why a VP of People disliked working from a coworking space
Nadia Vatalidis, who is a VP of People at Remote, shares why she was felt underwhelmed working from a coworking space in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Whilst it’s lovely to hear what folks like/love about coworking spaces, I find it’s always insightful to see why anyone doesn’t enjoy or benefit from the experience. Key factors that detracted from her working day: cost, rules around calls and access to private call space, distractions, traffic. Also interesting to read the many responses so far.
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👩💼 For sales teams, remote work works.
Phil Kirschner shares an article by Jennifer Stanley and Julia McClatchy that digs into why remote sales is here to stay (spoiler: because it works, very very well).
Touting increased number of accounts reached (4x) and up to 50% more revenue generated, we may be seeing more sales professionals shifting to remote work.
As operators of spaces who could host these sales professionals, how can you take advantage of this opportunity? More phone booths, better acoustics, sales-friendly rooms/areas or floors?
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🇦🇺 Competition heats up between landlords and coworking spaces.
Kate Jones shares that in Australia, coworking spaces and commercial office landlords are “battling it out” for the same sets of business. The latter are offering shorter leases, collaboration spaces and many have opened up their own flex brands. In response coworking spaces are lowering their rates to beat the lower prices offered by landlords on longer lease terms.
The piece also notes two interesting stats. According to Rubberdesk, vacancies rates dropped 5.2% at flex spaces across Australia in Q4/21, whilst national vacancy rates for commercial offices rose to 12.1% in the six months to Jan 2022.
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🎯 What’s the most impactful form of advertising for coworking? Community.
Simone Franke dives into community-building and it’s impact on attracting new members for coworking spaces in this Q&A post.
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😃 The Future of Work and The Value of Close Proximity
Neil Usher highlights one of the major questions that are asked in coworking, which is “who is your coworking space for?”. The answer to this changes from person-to-person and it may seem like there is no clear and concise answer. However, we are able to figure out the importance of the spaces we have and how they are able to evolve to fit into today’s society.
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Coworking data.
🇮🇳 Flex space footprint reaches 40M sqft and expected to grow to 75M sqft.
moneycontrol shares a summary of a joint report by Qdesq and JLL called ‘Indian Office market: Recalibrating with Flex’.
Other numbers include that over 90,200 flex seats were booked across the top 7 cities in 2021, a 2.5x year-on-year improvement from 12 months previously. The number of enquiries doubled over the same period, translating to over 214,000 seats booked via 15,000 leads.
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Coworking market moves.
🇮🇳 Remote-first org signs up for multicity coworking access
Cactus Communications shared that they’ve signed up their full-time employees for WeWork access across major metro areas in India namely Mumbai, Bengaluru, Pune, Gurugram, Noida, and Hyderabad.
Just a reminder that many remote-ready organizations are actively working on, and signing multi-location (and sometimes multi-brand) deals to give their employees drop-in or longer-term access and choices of coworking spaces.
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🆕 New workspace opens in Melbourne
Tashi Dorjee and Goldfields Group share that The Loft has officially opened in South Yarra.
From what I understand this is another space supported and run by JLL’s Flex team in partnership with the landlord.
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🎙 Coworking conversations.
Mike LaRosa (Upflex) moderates a discussion between Dave Cairns (CBRE), Alex Morris (McKinsey & Company) and Sami Hero (Remo) around what the future of ‘The Office’ is in a remote world at the Running Remote conference.
Jerry Alexander and Adam Blaskey chat about technology and flex space on the Commercial Property Investors podcast.
Jamie Russo discusses coworking, self-storage and co-warehousing with Laura and Dave Fisher on the Everything Coworking podcast.
Giovanni Palavicini and Jamie Russo chat with Mark Rose from Avison Young about using data to make real estate decisions on the Flex Uncensored podcast.
📆 Coworking events.
🚀 Convo: Your Neighborhood as a Marketing Tool
June 24: Your surrounding community is a huge marketing tool for your space. How do you leverage it? Let’s chat about it. Join us for a free, informal, community conversation with fellow workspace operators and coworking pros.
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🗽 IMMERSIVE 2022
Jun 28 & 29: The GWA Board of Directors is excited to host the first annual IMMERSIVE event; your behind-the-scenes opportunity to experience and engage with key players offering best-in-class hospitality in the flex space industry. As we venture into the third evolution of flex, it’s more important than ever to have a full picture of how
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😃 Coworking Marketing Round Table
June 29th: Maybe for you, it seems everyone but you has their marketing act together. What tactic should you do next, first? How much should you be spending on marketing? Does advertising on Facebook or with Google work?
The London Coworking Assembly be doing a marketing round table to help address these. It’ll be a fast-paced curated discussion to tease out the confusion and blocks we all experience as we strive to communicate any product or service.
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