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✊ Coworking impact.
🇺🇦 Ukrainian Coworking Assoc. spreads inspiration & message widely #
Bernie Mitchell summarizes just some of the ways the Ukrainian Coworking Association has/is spreading their inspiration and message across Europe and beyond.
👉 Read this.
🇦🇺 Network’s commitment to impact makes more desks avail to social enterprises #
Brad Krauskopf shares that Hub Australia’s commitment to impact-driven initiatives sees them offer a a portion of our desks to social enterprises, B Corps, and people from businesses doing good through our Flexi-Impact Program.
👉 Read this.
Coworking news & views.
🤩 Resource: tips for squeezing more reach out of LinkedIn #
Sam Browne summarizes the recent v2 of the Secrets of the Algorithm report by Richard van der Blom on what helps or hurts the reach of posts on LinkedIn.
👉 Read this.
📹 Local BBC channel highlights coworking #
Sophie Turnbull shares a news feature by BBC South into home working and why coworking is a good option for those people who want flexibility. Love seeing coworking spaces and brands on TV, but loooove seeing members sharing their stories and why they coworking even more.
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❤️ Why Todd loves coworking spaces. #
Todd Linder shares why he loves coworking spaces (no hyphen, friend) with his 3000+ followers on LinkedIn.
(Spoiler: It’s hospitality. And he shares a lovely example from Joseph Fitton, Wayne Cooper, and Olivia Dooley at Roam)
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🤔 Societal Disruptions and the coworking model, #
Leading up to the Coworking Symposium 2022, a scholarly conference on coworking and flexible workspaces the European Coworking Assembly sat down with event organiser, Marko Orel to discover all about the conference and what attendees can expect from this year’s event.
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💻 Coworking technology.
💸 Experienced operator questions desk booking app business model #
John Neilan from tuesday coworking muses on the sustainability of desk-booking apps and their business models. This follows the recent announcement of local app Independesk going into bankruptcy. It’s argued that to make on-demand work for flex spaces, either a full-time member of staff is needed or platforms need to guarantee a minimum pay out each month.
(In the comments I make the case for a 3rd option)
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Coworking data.
📊 Occupancy distribution shifts from desks to meeting rooms #
Sandra Panara shares a snapshot from Relogix’s recent benchmark report, highlighting a shift in how occupancy of workspaces is distributed. In 2019 64% of workspace preferences leaned towards desks, this has shrunk to just 38% in 2022. Meeting rooms saw a 2.1x increase in preferences going from 16% to 35% in the same period.
👉 Read this.
Coworking market moves.
🇵🇷 Piloto 151 opened their 5th location #
Sophia Stolberg shared that they officially inaugurated the fifth Piloto 151 location in the Casa Grande in the Miramar neighborhood.
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🏖 New beach-side space launches #
Nacho Rodriguez shares that he’s finally been able to open a shared workspace where you can “see, hear and breathe the ocean”. Not only does he share the opening of Gaete Coworking, but also notes that the space will prioritize positive socio-economic impact on the local community.
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🎙 Coworking conversations.
Qasim Virjee chatted with Ashley Proctor about coworking community building, placemaking, the Coworking IDEA project, Deskpass and the future of work (not necessarily in that order) on the Gathering podcast.
Caleb Parker and Anthony Slumbers discuss if brandlords are the future of office real estate on the #WorkBold podcast.
Jamie Russo and Giovanni Palavicini share their recorded-live discussion with Jamie Hodari about Industrious and building a network to enable people to work wherever they want to work, on the Flex Uncensored podcast.
William Edmunson joined Jamie Russo on the Everything Coworking podcast to chat about applying the EOS to coworking businesses.