🙈 The end of the year is stressful enough…
We get it! So we’ve put together a pretty thorough guide on how to check USPS compliance off your year-end todo lists.
In it, we share guides for
- how to get verified as a CMRA (including pro-tips for working with your Postmaster
- how to fill out your 1583’s and 1538-A’s.
- setting up BCG accounts
Plus, if you’re already an iPostal1 partner, you also get access to the iPostal1 CMRA Support program AND the iPostal1 Compliance Center – just to make things even easier.
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🎉 Coworking celebrations
🐣 FLOC turns one, and hits 1st year goals #
Sam Shea shares that Future Leaders of Coworking has been public for 12 whole months, and has hit it’s inaugural goal of 50 future coworking leader members. Next year? Scaling with intention. Let’s FLOC’ing go!
👉 Read this.
🏆 VP of Ops bring home a Women In Franchising award #
Vast Coworking shares that their VP of Operations, Paula Mercer is a 2025 Women in Franchising Award winner. Congrats!
👉 Read this.
📰 Coworking news & views.
👨🏽💻 An update on this whole “newsletter” thing #
Given This Week In Coworking is built mostly in public, and is supported by a growing number of partners and Patron brands, I wanted to share our 2025 numbers with you all.
In short: Official newsletter welcomed 270+ new subscribed teams, our shows have gathered 500+ hours of play time, the website saw another triple-digit percentage increase in pageviews and more.
Love what we’re doing and want to support TWIC as a Patron Brand? Check this out. Or if you’d like to exploring partnering with TWIC? Get in touch or reply to this email.
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💰 How to raise rates without losing members #
With 2026 just a few short weeks away, Mark Mendel, owner of Office Evolution Coral Springs, shares how coworking operators can navigate rate increases with members.
👉 Read this.
💭 Some takeaways from the recent conference in Berlin #
Oliver Lehmann from ATworld shares some key takeaways from their Coworking Europe experience.
Oliver took part in the panel on Fractional Offices (a term we popularized in our original Undercurrents edition in 2022), but other takeaways included how flexibility is table stakes, hospitality becoming the competitive edge, and the power of local ecosystems.
👉 Read this.
🪞 What does your brand really represent? #
Cat Johnson notes that how well you’ve positioned your coworking space and community gets tested when it’s out in the wild, not when people are reading your website copy or clicking your Google ads.
👉 Read this.
🔮 Definitions and Trends for 2026 (Webinar Recap) #
Explore the key coworking and flex space trends for 2026 from OfficeRnD‘s recent webinar.
James Panepinto, David Walker, Pauline Roussel and Ashley Proctor discussed evolving member expectations, AI, landlords, business models and more with session moderator Ivan Guberkov.
👉 Read this.
🇪🇸 Madrid gets a transplanted coworking leader #
Liz Simon shares that her family have moved semi-temporarily to Madrid, noting that in the near year she’d be stepping down as COO of Industrious, and into a more part time role.
This signals two things. A. Coworking spaces of Madrid, you’ve got a global leader potentially living next door. And B. the post notes that the firm will "bring in new executives" (note the plural) to shape the company’s next chapter.
👉 Read this.
💡 End-of-year recap ideas for coworking spaces #
Tired of the same EOY recap posts? This week Cobot explores some creative coworking content ideas – from polls and awards to community quotes and “This time last year” posts
👉 Read this.
🇦🇺 Australia’s peak body announces board change #
Flexible Workspace Australia have announced that James Bingham and Kate Hasbani are stepping off the representative body’s board, and that Jamie Vine (Liberty Flexible Workspace) and Daniel Tyson-Jones (The Instant Group) are stepping in.
👉 Read this.
🇮🇹 Italian lawyers get coworking access, via the post office #
Ok so a bunch to unpack here. Firstly, the Italian post office (Poste Italiane) has a coworking discovery and booking platform called "Spaces for Italy" (Spazi per l’Italia) that will boast 250 bookable venues. 50 of these locations are live, with another 200 in development. Secondly, the network has made a partnership with Cassa Forense (the national social security and assistance fund for lawyers) to give their members discounted access to private offices, hot desks and meeting rooms.
I wonder if other national postal services are taking note…
👉 Read this.
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💻 Coworking technology.
🛒 How some operators are improving checkout confidence #
Nexudus shares stories from across their community, highlighting how many operators are discovering the benefits of selling memberships online with reliable automations.
This follows the trend we highlighted earlier this year in our Undercurrents: E-commerce deep-dive, and features insights from Nomadworks, Orbit Spaces, Square Works Bristol, and Impact Hub Kings Cross.
👉 Read this.
📈 Coworking data.
🇺🇸 Workforce growth impacting coworking growth rates #
CoworkingCafe‘s latest study looks at 102 U.S. cities, exploring which have the fastest growing labor pools, and how flexible work and employment changes are influencing coworking expansion.
Highlights: Boston, MA led remote work adoption, and saw a 34% growth of coworking. Gilbert, AZ and Chandler, AZ recorded the fastest coworking growth among the top 20, expanding their markets by 160% and 100%, respectively, in two years. Established hubs like Miami, Atlanta and Philly saw slower but steady growth.
Nationwide, the coworking market expanded by 23% fueled by surging remote work adoption and renewed economic stability. Among the top 20 cities, Gilbert, AZ saw the highest increase of 160% in coworking spaces, adding eight more spaces between 2023 and 2025.
👉 Read this.
🏬 NYC on track for 3.62M sqft of office conversions #
Mike Day shares data from The Wall Street Journal that details how developers in New York have already transformed 2.8M sqft of office space into residential buildings, with 25 more conversions (around 820k sqft) now in the pipeline.
Some of these conversions will remove office supply, others will lean towards mixed-use buildings often including some form of flex workspaces.
👉 Read this.
🇫🇷 French flex now 30% of office take up #
Matthieu Russel from Work & Share shares French market data from Ubiq. Key figures included that flex space from the largest 50 operators in France has now surpassed 1.6M sqm (~17.2M sqft), with 150k sqm added in 2025, while 125k sqm was closed.
Also in the data is the number of spaces and sqm’s of the largest 30 brands, and the market penetration rate across major French cities.
👉 Read this.
🤝 Coworking market moves.
💳 Air miles on coworking spend? Finally. #
Sheree Groves shares that Hub Australia have partnered with Quantas Business Rewards to allow members to earn Quantas Points on day passes, day offices, memberships and virtual offices.
Well done Hub Australia team! PS. Called it. Expect to see more coworking-related credit cards and points moves.
👉 Read this.
🗽 NYC gets a new coworking-ish operator #
Kirill Azovtsev from Savills breaks down the (unfortunately email-gated) news about Resident’s big moves.
The members-only curated workspace operator, founded by Maxim Razmakhin, announced a strategic investment of $4M and the signing of two NYC leases for 26k sqft.
👉 Read this.
🇺🇸 City flex operator launches in Brooklyn #
Jacques Srour shares that Jay Suites are opening their first Brooklyn location. The 30k sqft space will be the brand’s 12th location, but their first outside of Manhattan.
👉 Read this.
🇲🇾 Operator shifts to ‘country club’ model #
Sky Chin shares WORQ‘s new strategic shift towards offering ‘country club’ offices, that they’ve grown from 180k to over 340k sqft and are tapping in a wellness offering in Q1.
👉 Read this.
🇸🇪 Court approves restructuring and new fundraise #
Convendum have officially exited their court-supervised restructuring. During the process the network went from 21 locations to 17, dropping 22k sqm of space. The firm will begin repayments on their €9.7M written-down debt, and the €1.1M in frozen deposits have been refunded to clients who terminated their leases.
To boost the recovery strategy, the firm also shared that they’ve secured €4.9M in new funding, that makes Knutsson Holdings their largest shareholder. CEO Håkan Jeppsson also noted that occupancy had bumped up to 77% from 53% last year.
👉 Read this.
🇩🇪 Hamburg gets a new Work Edition #
Danielle Schindler shares that Engel & Völkers Work Edition is opening their third location in Holzhafen area of Hamburg, Germany.
👉 Read this.
🇬🇧 Artesian seeks partner to build £200M flex network #
Mark Breen shares that Artesian have brought on advisers to find a new backer to expand their flex brand Us&Co as part of their plan to buy and reposition £200M of office buildings in London’s Zone 1.
👉 Read this.
🎙 Coworking conversations.
We’re about half way through our conference advent calendar, in which we share the discussions Mike LaRosa and Olivia Lutz had with Peter Demidov, Tim Schabsky, Gabriela Hersham, Brad Krauskopf, Fofie Mimi-Saltiel, Yuta Aoki, Vanessa Sans, Izzy Ahrbeck, Pauline Roussel, Ashley Proctor, Wissal Chab, Sherri Tao, Fiona Ross and Jean-Yves Huwart.
Jackie Latragna, CMO at Pacific Workplaces, joins Kevin Whelan and Taylor Mason on the 2 Marketers and a Coworking Podcast to unpack her AI-forward approach to managing marketing for a multi-location coworking business, increasing wins by ~33% YoY while driving down cost per acquisition, even with a lean team.
Chef-turned-coworking-founder Roland Stanley joins the Coworking Values podcast to share how UK operators are fighting an "extinction-level event", and what every UK coworking businesses needs to do this week – email your MPs.
Tashi Dorjee continues his transformation into the coworking Santa in this video, where he breaks down why your coworking concierge could (and should) run the entire building your space is based in.
Brave Corp CEO, Caleb Parker, and co-host Gary Helm from MUTE sits down with Rob Schogger, Cofounder & CEO of MetSpace London, to unpack how this long standing operator has built a resilient managed office platform in central London.
Brave Corp CEO, Caleb Parker, sits down in the Work.Life podcast studio in Clerkenwell with their new CEO, Paul Dutnall, to unpack how this people-focused flex operator is preparing its brand and operations for scale.
Jodie Gallant shares the story behind launching the first coworking space of its kind in New Hampshire’s Lakes Region with Jamie Russo on the Everything Coworking podcast.
Jamie Russo, Stormy McBride and Taylor Mason sit down and say the quiet parts out loud on the Flex Uncensored podcast.
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