Final reminder to share your lead-gen stats.
A quick reminder that Friday, Sept 30 is the last day to submit your stats on where your best-converting leads are coming from.
So far I’m already seeing big shifts from the data shared by operators in the US, Netherlands, and Canada. Can’t wait to dig in and discuss the findings with you all.
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🎉 Coworking celebrations.
🎉 Workspace celebrates 10 years #
Congrats to Massachusettes-based Workspace, on their 10th anniversary! Congrats to their whole community.
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🎂 Touchdown turns 6! #
Congratulations to Fernanda Cancado and the whole Touchdown Coworking Space community.
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🎂 Hubble turns 10! #
Hubble‘s founder shares the remarks he gave at the team’s recent gathering celebrating their 10 years in business. As the UK’s largest flexible workspace platform, they celebrated the challenges, the successes and the fulfillment of helping companies provide their employees with more than just great workspace. Here’s to you team Hubble!
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🎂 COhatch turns 8! #
This week COhatch celebrated 8 years with a look back at their very first space. They’ve come a far way as they now have 42 locations either open or under development. Congrats to their team on this great accomplishment!
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🎂 LACS turns 6! #
Portuguese flex space provider LACS celebrates 6 years of operations! Congrats to the firm who has raised €7.5M and operates 5 locations, spanning 30k sqm, and serving 3500 members.
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🎂 The Residence turned 3! #
Huge congrats to the whole community at The Residence on turning 3 in August and having what we’re sure was a huge party this week to celebrate!
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✊ Coworking impact.
🇬🇧 New affordable workspace tender opportunity #
Islington Council have announced a new affordable workspace tender opportunity for approx. 390 sqm of new affordable workspace within the Regents Wharf development.
The formal tender for the 10-year lease at peppercorn rent is expected to officially launch in early 2023, but they’d like to start informal dialogue with any interested operators looking to partner with them to deliver the local economic and social impact they’re looking for.
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🖼️ Solving a common problem with… opportunities #
Every coworking space has to figure out what to put on all those walls, inside those corridors, within those meeting rooms and sometimes even in the restrooms. Hub Australia are approaching that challenge a little differently with an Artist In Residence program.
While they are not the first I’ve heard to do this (I do remember seeing something similar as far back as 2014 in some spaces in London), I do love the way they openly shares what’s in it for the artists (other than "the exposure"), including a grant, free year of membership and 100% of any sold artwork.
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↗️ The Shop SLC launches a nonprofit incubator #
Friends of The Shop SLC, a brand-new social impact residency program, launched last week. They are offering three months of complimentary workspace, community support, and visibility, all designed to help nonprofits grow and thrive.
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💰 Coworking firm raises $23,500 for childhood cancer research #
WOTSO brought together more than 100 staff, members, family, and friends at North Head in Sydney for a fundraising event that raised over $4,000 for The Kids’ Cancer Project. The coworking operator has now raised $23,500 through the 2025 Better Challenge, a 30-day September initiative encouraging participants to walk, run, or move 90km while attracting sponsorship, with CEO Jessie Glew targeting $25,000 total.
WOTSO has supported The Kids’ Cancer Project since 2016, raising more than $240,000 through various initiatives for the organization founded 32 years ago by Col Reynolds. The org has invested over $75 million in childhood cancer research, contributing to increased survival rates for children diagnosed with cancer.
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💚 How a sustainable coworking space impacts and inspires a whole region in Germany #
Coworking spaces are eco-friendly by default. Various people work in one space and share the utilities. However, we can still make it more sustainable. Alicia Feig and her mother Karin are an actual power couple – and now the owners of one of Cowirken the first rural sustainable coworking spaces in South Germany!
Simone from Pappus asked a range of questions like applying the concept of sustainability in terms of workplace amenities and design, attracting and retaining members, and if sustainability be considered a global trend.
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Coworking news & views.
🇦🇹 How two coworking brands chose cooperation over competition #
Lucia Schramm-Kainede shares the backstory of how COWORK OÖ and CoWorkLand partnered up to launch their first regional office in Austria.
ICMY: CoWorkLand eG is a self-organization of coworking space operators in rural areas and supports space founders with a shared infrastructure, qualification and advisory services. Educational work, conducting well-founded studies and political lobbying is also done.
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👷♀️ Nichification: new coworking hub for women in construction #
9news shares a feature with Jessica Acosta who founded Edifice 2120, a coworking space designed to help women in construction run their businesses.
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💸 The $5k experiment that reshaped Michigan’s ecosystem #
Matthew Gira shares a fascinating look at Bamboo‘s founding story, from a $5k loan over 200,000 sqft of coworking space under management.
Fascinating to learn more about Amanda Lewan and the team’s early coworking story.
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🏴 Scotland taking notes from coworking successes in Ireland #
A project led by Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) and University College Cork (UCC), funded by the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Royal Irish Academy, explored the success of Ireland’s Connected Hubs network and its potential for rural Scotland. The Irish network, established in 2021, supports 400 hubs, contributing €1bn annually to local economies. The study found that Ireland’s hubs boost regional development, reduce commutes, and encourage relocation to rural areas.
Scotland, with 165 coworking hubs (42% in rural areas), could benefit from a similar national network to address depopulation and enhance rural economic growth. Findings will guide future development of coworking spaces in Scotland.
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👩💻 The Future of Coworking is a career, not a gig #
While you were running your space, Bernie Mitchell has been talking to the future—three FLOC leaders, one message: it’s time to choose careers over gigs.
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🇬🇧 How a flex space platform is saving companies £45k per year #
How? With Fractional Offices. Tushar Agarwal, shares that Hubble (who were one of the companies who shared insights with us when we investigated Fractional Offices for you all) are saving their customers an average of £45,000 (just under $60k) per year on unused office space. How how? Instead of renting for all 30ish days of the month, the companies are just renting space they need for 1, 2 or 3 days a week.
Fascinating to see an update on the number from them too, with over 1k part-time offices listed across London and one of their customers saving over £160k moving from 5 days a week to 3 days a week in trendy Soho.
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💰 Flexible workspace emerges as standalone asset class #
Paul Stanton from boutique investment bank PTB explores how flexible workspace is establishing itself as a standalone real estate asset class as family offices capitalize on arbitrage opportunities that traditional lenders struggle to underwrite.
The Dart family office’s acquisition of two Financial District buildings totaling 1.5M SF for approximately $200/SF (previously trading above $1,000/SF for Class A) demonstrates the scale of opportunity, with the WSA-branded conversion offering 200-400 SF flexible offices targeting $300/SF rents that could generate 20% unlevered yield on $500M total project costs. Family offices are taking patient, long-term positions in flexible office conversions while institutional investors remain sidelined due to unproven market depth, limited operating data, and lender underwriting challenges.
The trend extends beyond mega-deals to smaller Class B office conversions, with observers noting flexible workspace operators can command significantly higher per-square-foot rents than traditional office leases when bundling space with extensive amenities and services.
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🤫 10 tips for dealing with noise in open plan workspaces #
andcards shares another guest post sharing 10 tips for dealing with noise. Tips include rearranging tables, culture changes, designated quiet spaces, headphones, partitions, carpets, fabric furniture, pods and plants.
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💰 There’s no money in coworking…or is there? #
Workbar‘s CEO Sarah Travers shared a post about a popular belief that she’s happy to prove false. For all those who believe that there’s no money in open-plan coworking, she shares how their open spaces generate 2x the revenue of their private offices – while also costing less to build out.
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🦿 Space founder’s recovery leads to a remote operations playbook #
Charlie Ward, the founder of London-based Ramen Club detailed how he’s maintaining $15k monthly revenue and 90% capacity at Ramen Space while recovering from a broken leg at home. He has implemented eight key strategies including hiring an active community member for day-to-day operations, using digital tools to empower their cleaner to order supplies, and offering free event space to drive awareness through social media promotion by event organizers.
The space generates leads through their own monthly @IndieBeers event (6 years running, 80-100 attendees) and focuses on free trial days without credit card requirements, designating Tuesdays as the main community day to reduce decision fatigue. The operation includes a 500-person online community managed through automation tools including a custom Slack plugin called "Cosy," with upcoming collaboration planned with Generalist World. Speedy recovery, Charlie!
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⚖️ We need to be a host, and hospitable #
Stormy McBride from GCUC digs into why both hosting and hospitality both matter when it comes to being successful in coworking.
"A coworking space that only ‘hosts’ may run like clockwork, but it can feel sterile. A space that leans only on ‘hospitality’ may feel warm, but chaotic without structure. The spaces that thrive are the ones that do both: they set the table and invite members to help shape the experience."
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💆 5 key takeaways for starting a successful niche coworking space #
Explore how Deborah Schoenblum and Rachael Berezin improved the lives of their clients and the greater community with their niche coworking space for therapists and other mental health practitioners called Brooklyn Hourly Offices.
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🇬🇧 What’s next for WeWork and their members in the UK? #
Helena Young interviewed a few industry insiders about what could be next for WeWork (and the wider coworking industry). Whilst the CRE and coworking market watches what will happen to the firms 777 leases amounting to over $13B in obligations.
Will Kinnear from HEWN notes the brand changed the perception of flex space, even as the sector watched them do deals that didn’t stack up – most notably due to being able to raise capital fairly "easily". Jacob Fisher from Runway East noted how the flex market is very unfriendly to companies who scale too quickly, and that they’ve seen clients jump over to them for more certainty.
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🏋️♂️ Workspace in Brussels launches whole campaign on wellness #
Manhattan Brussels shared their new video promoting how their members can stay active and energized.
The video features their cycling amenities, fitness classes and gym infrastructure instead of just their workspace. I don’t actually think they share anything about their workspace in the video.
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🎓 Brokers 101 for coworking operators #
Laura Green at EleVault shared a consolidated training reference for how coworking spaces who want to better engage with brokers.
The guide emphasizes that brokers typically bring larger headcounts, more qualified prospects, and higher usage of ancillary services through their established relationships with key decision-makers. She recommends finding brokers through platforms like CoStar and LoopNet, plus Google searches and networking events, while also sharing some relationship-building tactics including breakfast meetings, complementary open desk memberships, and LinkedIn campaigns.
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🗞️ From press kit, to securing coverage #
Last week, Rosee from Cobot shared a press kit guide for coworking operators.
This week, they go a step further with how to actually land coverage with by using it. From building the right media list to crafting pitches that get noticed, it’s a practical next step for coworking operators ready to share their story.
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🎥 Could this be the best coworking ad ever created? #
Fans of Succession (and real, useful amenities) will love this advert. It totally could have been an ad for any number of workspace/hybrid-work apps.
It isn’t. Unfortunately. But it totally could (and really should) have been. Aggregator subscribers, the ball is your court now.
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📑 New exec’s plan for ASEAN expansion #
Paul MacAndrew, newly appointed executive of CEO Suite, shares his roadmap for the regional firm including their adoption of AI, a planned digital transformation, and regional partnerships to expand its portfolio of premium flex space.
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🤩 Some reception desk inspiration #
You only get one chance at making a great first impression. And when it coms to coworking, it’s more than just the front desk. Interaction Ltd, shared some photos of their favorite reception areas.
Editor note: While these are all client projects that Interaction is rightly proud of, we’re sharing them as reception area inspiration from some amazing brands like x+why, Runway East and FOUNDRY.
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🇬🇧 FSA recaps a busy and productive year #
At the Flexible Space Association’s Annual General Meeting, Chair Andrea Kolokasi provided a report on the key activities from the past year. In short: membership grew to 1,150 workspace locations across the UK, alongside 41 service provider members. Efforts were made to address business rates challenges, and industry promotion included speaking engagements, media features, and expanded social media reach. A busy events calendar featured a successful Gala Dinner, a well-received annual conference, and numerous roundtables, webinars, and networking events.
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🪴 This Innovation Center believes in Western Michigan growth #
Ten years ago, no one knew what the Muskegon Innovation Center actually was. Now, this Grand Valley State hub is bustling and hustling, serving the entrepreneurs of this picturesque countryside. Lauren Walker from Coworks catches up with Kevin Ricco about how they do it, and why.
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🆚 The indie-vs-chain coworking chart #
Jennifer Blanchard Belk shared why their offering at LOOM Coworking is different from "chain coworking companies", and just the right fit for their ideal members.
Do you find yourself comparing yourself to other ‘kinds’ of coworking offerings to prospects? What aspects do you focus on? Let us know.
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💻 Coworking technology.
🤓 A “short” summary on the tech panel I led last week #
I tried to write a short summary of the highlights of my discussion with Miro, Sofia, Ginger, and Brian at the GWA conference last week.
I failed at keeping it short, but hey, that’s what you get when you have an inspiring conversation with some of the best product-leaders across the flex space operating stack.
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🔐 Firm introduces tiny access control system #
Jonas Arvidsson shares Parakey’s new ‘fits anywhere’ access control unit. The device size is just 46×46 millimeters. The devices can also be used to modernize any existing and traditional access systems on the market by simply reusing the infrastructure already in place.
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🇪🇸 New booking platform aims to double size by end of year. #
Rafael Castilla and Oriol Torremadé share the thoughts behind Tribuapp, their progress so far (~2k desks available for booking) and what their goals are for the rest of the year.
Booking platforms will continue to be launched as corporate budgets tighten, rents increase, and barriers to creating a platform drop in both cost and complexity.
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📞 Even more AI agents for flex spaces, now for phone calls #
Jake Smith shares how LiveAnswer AI can be used to automate call answering services for flex spaces. Although there’s a lot of AI being thrown at/around coworking right now, what’s very noteworthy here is that LiveAnswer AI, is from EVO Technologies, one of the OG’s of phone services for multi-tenant and flex space businesses.
This follows other AI agents being touted to take over other incoming requests, and leaves me wondering about where the line is between human hospitality and AI automation. Are we there yet? Getting close?
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🚪 How to logistically set up profitable fractional offices. #
ICMY, I’m fascinated by the undercurrent trend of Fractional Offices, so when Vera Eftimovska’s 20-minute piece on how access control systems like Kisi can be used to make part-times offices work and profitable, I dove right in.
In it they explore some of the challenges with adding this kind of flex space product to your business, how tech can alleviate some of the challenges, and a 6-step plan for setting up and managing these products.
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📱 Corp booking platform adds 1-button rebooking widgets #
Michael Cockburn shares that Desana now offer 2 sets of interesting iOS widgets designed to help individuals and teams keep track of their upcoming bookings and rebook meeting rooms or desk space from easy-to-access buttons.
Keep watching this space as platforms try to make finding, booking and rebooking space easier in order to help build habits around leveraging flex workspaces.
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🏜️ How to overcome the data desert #
John Preece from Hub Australia penned this piece on the Spacebring blog about why your data is the first step in all of us unlocking our industry’s future, together.
"This is the only way to unlock our industry’s full potential as an investable asset class, and therefore the only way the sector will meaningfully grow and flourish."
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😣 Secret shopper shares their day pass process frustration #
Lauren Walker, CMO of Coworks conducted an accidental secret shopper experience at an unnamed coworking space, revealing significant operational failures in the day pass process which included inquiry forms, 2 days of no responses, "buy when you get here", pricing/detail opacity and that was all before even arriving at the space. What followed was even worse.
The actual visit only lasted 35 minutes before she left, highlighting how operational oversights can drive away warm leads and revenue. But you’ve already solved these obvious day pass operational issues? Right?
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📲 Booking app makes rebooking easier #
The team at Flexday have improved the flow for individuals and teams to find, favorite and rebook coworking and meeting room space.
Another way for great operators to build brand loyalty through a third party booking platform or aggregator.
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🇳🇿 NZ booking platform celebrates 12,000th listing #
Matt Knight shares that SharedSpace.co.nz is celebrating their 12,000th listed space.
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📐 GenAI planning and visualization platform lands $10M #
Daniel Correa shares that JLL Spark is one of the strategic investors in qbiq’s $10M seed funding round. The firm uses generative AI to create customized layout alternatives and 3D visual tours to take space planning from weeks to minutes.
Expect to see more GenAI shifts into and adjacent to coworking, helping you and your clients quickly plan, adapt and refit offices, spaces and suites.
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📲 The connection between tech + tenant experience #
Jacob Bates pens a piece (is that still a saying now that everyone types?) in Forbes about the connection between ‘tenant experience’ and technology. Noting a recent informal poll of why people come into the office, the no. 1 response was ‘experience’, followed closely was ‘technology’. Physical space? A distant third.
It’s a good piece, from a seasoned leader in the office/flex sector, and def includes some notes regarding technology that your businesses could explore or at least use as inspiration for your own spaces and communities. The future of tenant apps? Integrated and experiential tech.
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Coworking data.
🇮🇳 India’s flex market outpaces the rest of the globe #
Frank Cottle shares that India have scored a perfect 100 on Cushman & Wakefield‘s maturity index, surpassing traditional leaders like the U.K., France, and the U.S. in flexible office market development. The country currently holds nearly 80 million square feet of flexible workspace inventory across its top eight cities, with Bengaluru commanding 30% of that space, and is expected to reach 85 million square feet by end of 2025 and surpass 100 million square feet by 2026.
Demand has increased nearly sixfold since 2020, with flexible spaces accounting for 15% of all new office leases in 2024, while international enterprises drove 72% of flexible seat absorption compared to 28% from startups. Flexible workspace providers leased 33.5 million square feet between 2022 and 2024, with the managed office model now representing 70-80% of post-pandemic leases, and four operators have already gone public with more IPOs expected.
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👏 Recent study confirms power of weak ties #
Steve King shares that LinkedIn’s recent study has confirmed the power of weak ties (ie casual acquaintances) and reminds us that coworking spaces increase the weak tie networks of their members, which in turn leads to more business opportunities.
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📐 Aligning for when big US tenants rebalance office portfolios #
Andrea Pirrotti-Dranchak’s third post in this series on the Product-Market Fit crisis digs into what will happen to office buildings when (not if) companies like Microsoft, Alphabet, Meta, Apple, and Amazon shift just 5% of their portfolio to flex.
Roughly, that’s 3M sqft of new flex space demand. (~900K employees, assuming 60 sqft per person so total need of ~55M sqft of office space. 5% of that ? Nearly 3M sqft).
Add the rest of the top ten occupiers, and we could be looking at ~10M of demand. The math is rough — and that’s the point. The numbers don’t need to be exact to see what’s coming: demand for flexible formats can quickly overwhelm today’s supply.
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💶 In Europe, flex supply slows but corporate demand grew in H1 #
Billy Hodges shared CBRE UK’s European Flex Office Market Update for the first half of 2023. It looks at slower operator take-up (as we’ve seen in other reports), how corporates are actually leveraging more flex space than they predicted they would last year, and that there’s also ‘significant room to grow’. The report also highlights how flex space operators and businesses are outperforming traditional leasing with regards to sustainability agendas.
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🇩🇪 Flex space demand up 10x year-on-year in Germany #
REFIRE shares a summary of various market reports. A CBRE report notes that the "number of office tenants looking to lease more than half of their space flexibly has increased tenfold since last year".
The piece also highlights new players or expansions from firms like Vonovia, Orangery and Primestar. Cushman & Wakefield notes that flex space accounts for just 1.1% of the total office stock in the Top 7 cities in Germany. Savills, however, predicts that the flex office segment will play an increasingly important role in European office markets, growing its share of the European office market to around 20% within ten years.
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💚 How coworking helps employers solve employees wellbeing challenges #
Mindspace shared their Employee Wellbeing Insights 2023 report. Their survey of 2000 employed office workers across 7 countries uncovered a mental health crisis, and highlighted what employers can do about it.
The top way to improve employee wellbeing? 35% says flexible work options. Other ways coworking brands could help? Healthy eating options, offsites and on-site gyms.
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🇬🇧 UK office outlook looks choppy #
Lee Wilkinson shares the PwC UK piece that looks at the state of the UK office market, whilst not strictly coworking-related data, it’s definitely data worth keeping in mind.
Key takeaways are that building costs are up 41% from 2020, 33M sqft of office space has an EPC rating of D or below, 9% of UK spaces have a EPC rating of F or G and not suitable for leasing.
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🎓 Near-campus coworking #
Researchers at CoworkingCafe set out to determine where in the U.S. coworking is most accessible near a university campus. By analyzing the number of coworking spaces within a two-mile radius of the top 100 universities in the country, they found that 80% of them had at least 1 coworking space within 2 miles of the campus (with the median average being 3).
New York University boasts the highest number of coworking spaces around its campus – 220 – both nationally and in the Middle Atlantic area, George Washington University takes the 2nd spot nationally with 74 spaces, while the University of Illinois at Chicago rounds out the top 3 nationally with 66 coworking spaces.
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🇬🇧 Was the 2021 spike just a blip? If so, what’s next? #
The Instant Group shared their most recent UK flex market report. The data is similar to what Instant CMO shared recently on stage at GWA last week, noting that the spike we all saw in 2021 may have just been a blip, but that demand is stabilizing.
Catalyst notes that "the report sets out the challenges and the opportunities in our sector, but what stands out noticeably is the opportunity in areas outside of London where demand outstrips supply: in towns and cities such as Glasgow, Newcastle, Leeds, Manchester, Liverpool, Nottingham, Leicester, Birmingham and Bristol."
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🕯️ 72% of on-demand meeting rooms are for internal use #
Eyal Lasker shares that, according to booking data from the Flexspace ecommerce platform, 79% of meeting room bookings are made using work emails, vs the rest using personal/non-work addresses. He also highlights that 28% of the meetings booked were client-facing, while 72% are for internal team meetings, workshops, or training sessions.
A valuable subset of data if you’re looking to expand your corporate coworking customers.
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🇬🇧 How London’s 60 brands stack up, by brand and reputation #
Zoe Ellis-Moore kindly shared a direct ungated copy of the Spaces to Places‘ recent London Flex Brand Index report. In it we explore the size of London’s flex space market, not only by number of lcoations or square footage, but also by the impact and reach of each local and international brand.
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🙏 16 important spaces for employees #
Wesley Edmonds from OFS breaks down Gensler’s recent report on the workspace experiences that employees crave.
Top 10? F&B options, coworking, lounges, rest spaces, deep-focus area, focus rooms, outdoor workspaces, phone booths, libraries and well-being areas.
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Coworking market moves.
🏬 Coworking hubs coming to apartment communities #
Evan Fain shares Industrious’ first-of-its-kind partnership with AvalonBay Communities to bring inspiring workplaces into neighborhoods, closer to home. The pilot ‘Second Space’ locations are 1400 sqft and 2400 sqft and service a cumulative 800+ apartment units in South California. Members also enjoy access to other locations across the network.
Jamie Hodari shares a trend we’ve all been seeing in that the "evolution of work is showing that most workers don’t want to commute daily to office spaces, but don’t want to work from home every day either".
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🇮🇳 IA acquires MySOHO #
India Accelerator (IA), a leading startup accelerator founded in 2017, has acquired coworking operator MySOHO in an undisclosed cash-equity deal that signals convergence between startup incubation and flexible office industries in India.
MySOHO currently operates 18 centres across eight Indian cities, covering 8,300 sqm with 1,800 desks and maintaining close to 90% occupancy rates.
The acquisition enables IA to scale its coworking footprint to over 45 hubs in more than 30 cities, projecting 60k sqm and 12,500 seats that will integrate coworking with startup-focused clinics, mentorship programs, and investor networking.
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🆕 Operator Expands in Ottawa #
TCC shared updates on their newest location, opening in Ottawa. Tours are booking now!
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🚀 Enter Workspace launches after TNW shutdown #
Following the announcement of TNW (The Next Web) shutdown after over a decade serving the European tech scene, former TNW team members have co-founded Enter Workspace with Thomas Zwart and Renée Appelo to build environments focused on community, creativity, wellbeing, and sustainability.
The new company operates existing locations including WFC Flex Offices in Amsterdam and Lotus Campus in Rotterdam, while announcing a new partnership with AI AM in Amsterdam. Enter Workspace positions the AI AM partnership as creating what they believe will be the leading hub for applied AI in the Netherlands.
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🇬🇧 Mega TOG-Fora merger completes #
Enrico Sanna shares that the merger between Fora and The Office Group, which was first announced in March, has now been completed.
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📈 WeWork expands Partner Network by 1000+ spaces #
WeWork announced the expansion of its Coworking Partner Network by adding more than 1,000 third-party locations across the U.S. and Canada, nearly one year after launching the program in October 2024.
The network now includes more than 600 national, regional and specialty coworking operators providing access to workspaces in more than 500 U.S. and Canadian markets, with partners including EXPANSIVE and Pacific Workplaces.
The expanded network is currently available to WeWork’s large enterprise members through the WeWork Workplace technology platform, building on the initial partnership with Vast Coworking Group which provided access to 75 locations in 50 markets. WeWork is investing more than $80 million in capital investments across its portfolio this year. For more information on the network, check out this interview we did back when this was announced last year.
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🇬🇧 Management-agreement driven firm raises new round #
Jonny Rosenblatt shares that Spacemade have raised a new round to further growth from their current size of 10 spaces totaling 165k sqft.
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🇦🇺 Hub announces 2nd West Coast clubhouse #
Hub Australia will open One Two Five by Hub at Brookfield Place in February 2026, marking its second Clubhouse location on the West Coast. The new workspace, located at 125 St Georges Terrace, is being developed in partnership with Brookfield Properties and will feature a rooftop terrace, sports lounge, restaurants, bars, cafés, gyms, and childcare facilities.
Hub Australia describes the space as designed for "serious business" with premium interiors and amenities that aim to balance work and lifestyle needs. The facility will offer comprehensive hospitality services beyond traditional coworking, positioning itself as a full-service business hub.
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🇫🇷 French merged brands rebrand. #
The merged coworking group between Startway and Multiburo recently rebranded to Mitwit Office.
Coworking Europe shares that the rebranding has been in the works since 2022 when Multiburo was taken over by the real estate arm of the La Poste Groupe, who are majority owners of Startway – which focused on turning old post offices into flex spaces.
Combined the group aims to build a network of 100ish sites by 2030, up from their 50 today, as well as extending their international reach beyond their current locations in Switzerland and Belgium.
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🇪🇸 Spanish operator opens new 4.4k sqm location #
Coworking Europe shares an update from Cloudworks‘ new Barcelona space. Alongside the news, they also share that the brand now serves 2,900 members, across 14 locations covering 28k sqm. In 2023 they generated €10.3M in revenue.
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🇫🇷 Social Hub launches Toulouse location #
The Social Hub, originally founded as The Student Hotel in 2012, has opened a new space in Toulouse, France.
The location follows the company’s hybrid model combining student accommodation, hotels, coworking, dining, cultural programming, and events under one roof across its 19-city European network including Amsterdam, Paris, Berlin, Madrid, and Vienna. The coworking space offers daily passes and flexible monthly memberships of 1, 6, or 12 months, with members gaining access to additional facilities including onsite dining, gym, rooftop pool, and event programming such as debates and workshops.
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🏋🏼 UK fitness and workspace facility opens another location #
The team at Third Space shared their recent opening in Clapham Junction. More than just a gym, Third Space reflects a trend that we’ve been seeing in TWIC week after week: the combination of fitness, workspace and gathering space, branded as a lifestyle club.
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🇵🇱 The Shire opens new Warsaw coworking location #
Oskar Odziemczyk shared that THE SHIRE – Beyond Coworking has opened a new location in Warsaw’s Harmony Office Center building.
The project was developed in partnership with Catalyst Capital and Savills Poland. The opening represents the continued expansion of The Shire’s network across major Polish cities.
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🇮🇳 Hotel chain merger with an eye on workspace needs #
Indian based OYO makes a big play into the USA market by purchasing the Motel 6 brand from Blackstone real estate. With over 157,000 hotels in 32 markets, OYO is a major hotel player in almost every market except for North America. By purchasing Motel 6, they now have a sizeable network to compete with.
ICYMI: OYO has a Workspaces brand that they have been slowing growing out of just being a third party aggregator to include and offer workspace at their hotel locations.
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🇬🇧 Legacy UK flex brokerage up for sale? #
Jon Seal from technologywithin summarized Green Street’s (infuriatingly email-gated) report that UK-based flex workspace brokerage Officio has engaged consultancy firm Deloitte to float a potential sale for the firm.
The news has not been confirmed by either parties, and we dislike sharing any form of gated content, but it does point to consolidation trends in the industry as it matures. Also makes us wonder what ripples this will cause across Rubberdesk, Instant/Worka, Office Freedom, Hubble/Yardi and the likes of C&W, CBRE, JLL who are all diving deep into flex.
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🥯 The Shop Workspace expands to Brooklyn! #
The Shop Workspace officially announced its upcoming expansion to Brooklyn’s Gowanus neighborhood. The space will span 12k sqft across a larger Domain Companies residential tower, is set to open in early 2025 and will feature common space, private offices and a series of art studios.
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🆕 Bozeman gets more coworking #
Thrive Coworking announced the opening of their newest location in Bozeman, MO with a Grand Opening set for October 8th.
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🇫🇮 POOL expands to Ruoholahti #
Tuomas Sahi shares that Antilooppi‘s POOL brand is epxanding to Ruoholahti, Finland with a new location opening in November.
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🎙 Coworking conversations.
In this Behind The News episode Hector Kolonas hosts Andrea Pirrotti-Dranchak and Wybo Wijnbergen to delve into InfinitSpace‘s mission and their bold entrance into the US market.
Kristin Hardwick joins Jamie Russo on the Everything Coworking podcast and shares her journey from corporate life to photography, and eventually, the creation of CoHo—a coworking space that prioritizes community, connection, and the needs of small business owners and remote workers
In the BCO‘s latest Workspace Unwired podcast, Samantha McClary talks with Emma Roche, a Partner and coworking and office space specialist from UK law firm Greenwoods about reforms to the Landlord & Tenant Act, a ban on upward-only rent reviews, and increasingly popular new type of managed space agreement.
Giovanni Palavicini and Jamie Russo chatted with Shlomo Silber about Bond Collective’s origins, brand positioning, expansion plans and… erm 500 deadlifts!?
Brave Corp CEO, Caleb Parker and OfficeRnD Chief Product Officer, Ivan Giberkov to explore why coworking must adopt an Airbnb-style e-commerce mindset before it can achieve the brand power of Soho House.
Caleb Parker and Liz Elam recorded their chat about what they’re both seeing in the industry. That conversation is released as Ep1 of WorkBold Podcasts’ 8th season.
Ali Parnan chats with Christoph Fahle about how betahaus builds community on The Coworking Intern video series.
In a crossover episode Fanny Marcoux is hosted by Bernie Mitchell on the Coworking Values Podcast (the "world’s second-best coworking podcast") to discuss what happens when you collect 36 stories from coworking operators across three continents.
Hollie Sanglier chats with Emilie Lashmar and Jessica Samson about how to create community within spaces on The Spaces That Shape Us podcast.
Kane Willmott, CEO of iQ Offices, sits with Jamie Russo on this Everything Coworking episode to reverse-engineer the Switchyards model
Megan Brown, Cid Rhomberg, Giovanni Palavacini share the highlight reel of this year’s GWA Flex Forward Conference and announces next year’s conference venue and the Immersive location for May 2023 on the Flex Uncensored podcast.
Cassandra Kavanagh chats with Giovanni Palavicini about how a sink or rethink moment led to Rethink Your Workspace in Newcastle, Australia.
Heather Harris digs into how Intelligent Office is reigniting their growth with Gio and Jamie on the Flex Uncensored podcast.
Jamie Russo digs into the rise and fall of WeWork, their historical focus on unit economics, and how independent operators to create and grow profitable businesses.
CEO of Coworkies, and co-author of "Around the World in 250 Coworking Spaces", Pauline Roussel takes the TEDx AUBG stage and shares her professional journey through the French schooling system, and deep into the coworking movement.
This episode of the Taking Care of Business podcast is not only recorded live from TownSq‘s newest location, but Gareth Jones the founder of the coworking network joins hosts Ellie and Nigel to discuss the value of sharing business challenges and wins with like-minded professionals across different industries.
📆 Coworking events.
🎯 Convo: Attract Perfect-Fit Members to Your Community #
Sept 29: How do you attract perfect-fit members to your community? Let’s chat about it.
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🇨🇦 Coworking Canada heads to Calgary & Banff #
October 10-15: The 9th annual Coworking Canada Unconference heads to Calgary, October 10th-12th, with a leadership retreat in Banff, October 12th-15th, 2023. It’s a coworking community favorite! Scholarship tickets available.
Use the code "TWIC2023′ for $50.00 OFF any ticket.
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🇬🇧 “Many Rivers To Cross” October London Coworking Assembly Breakfast Show #
October 4th: We’ve all heard about & talked about inclusion, diversity, accessibility and equity.
But how do we take these words from being tick boxes to a lived reality in our coworking spaces? Join us as we explore what this means to our panellists and their thoughts on where it has gone right and where it has gone wrong. And, even more importantly, what are the practical everyday steps we can all take to improve things?
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🇵🇹 Coworking Nativo in Porto, Portugal #
An event about the people. Not an event about the event.
Dates: 7-8 October
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🇬🇧 GCUC UK (and exclusive TWIC prize) #
November 2-3: GCUC returns to the UK, and we have put together an exclusive prize exclusive for TWIC subscribers. Use TWIC10 to get your discount and to get entered into the draw for an exclusive Power Hour session with Hector Kolonas and Emilie Lashmar. (More details in the link)
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🚀 2x member growth with The Residence’s blueprint #
Curious how to achieve rapid growth for your coworking space?
Join us for an eye-opening webinar featuring Karen Tait, CEO & Founder of The Residence Coworking.
Karen will walk us through her experience migrating 100+ members to Spacebring and how it resulted in a 2x increase in membership. From the decision-making process to overcoming challenges and optimizing operations, Karen will share actionable strategies and real-world insights to help you boost your coworking space’s success.
Secure your spot today and start your journey towards significant growth!
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