The podcast features an interview with Jessie Glew, CEO of WOTSO, a successful coworking and flex workspace operator based in Australia. They recently celebrated their 10th anniversary and on the heels of reported record revenue. A publicly held company, they are quickly mastering how to transform distressed real estate into profitable coworking spaces. Jessie shares the origins of the WOTSO name, discusses her career path in real estate, and explains the company's expansion plans, and emphasis on technology. Jessie reflects on marketing efforts, including a TV commercial, and their success with hyperlocal marketing and nurturing local businesses.

Coworking Insights and Changes: Industry Updates and New Formats

This week's episode covers various coworking industry news, including legal changes affecting booking platforms like Booking.com and their implications for coworking spaces, the emergence of new coworking spaces within residential projects by Adam Neumann's Flow, and the introduction of unstaffed satellite coworking spaces by WOTSO in Australia. They also highlight financial insights for coworking spaces and explore the parallel growth patterns between the coworking and hotel industries. The hosts encourage community participation and feedback for future episodes.

Hines Expands Flex Office Offerings with The Square Collection

Hines began this journey in 2017 to provide alternatives to long-term leases, initially with coworking spaces. The Square has evolved into an umbrella brand encompassing various office solutions, including meeting rooms and event spaces. The new announcement is The Square Collection, which allows Hines' global clients to utilize amenity spaces across their network via the Here by Hines app.

The technology, developed with partners essensys and HqO, enables inventory management and booking capabilities. While primarily aimed at Hines' tenants, some spaces may be available to third parties. Hines is exploring strategic options to address portfolio gaps and enhance client partnerships in the future.

Welcome to the audio recap of this week's newsletter

In this episode we dive into what flex space products are most popular, some numbers North America & France, and take a quick overview of market moves in Australia, Singapore and Kenya.

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Welcome to This Week In Coworking, I’m Hector Kolonas and this is your audio recap of some important news views and market moves that you may have missed this week in coworking.

In today’s audio summary I’ll be diving into just a few of them, namely dynamic pricing for coworking space, more data from the hottest flex market in the world, how one Canadian operator is giving their clients access to other operators' spaces and an Amex perk on coworking - and what it could mean for the industry.

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This week I explore a 95x bump in ad spend, coworking on How I Built This, a tax incentive program, Yardi acquiring CloudVO, and more residential-building coworking.

Topics covered this week in the audio recap:

To see all 21 summaries, or subscribe to the free email version, hop over to ThisWeekInCoworking.com and click Week 23, 2023

In week 22 of 2023 I shared 27 summaries including a few big corporate coworking moves, how Taskrabbit saved 87% on rent through coworking, if members could become shareholders, a 25% jump in flex space demand in Singapore and more.

In this recap podcast we dig into two celebrations, a few of these stories, and an honorable mention.

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In week 21 of 2023 we explore Mind-blowing generative AI in photoshop, an APAC network preparing for a Nasdaq listing, strong flex numbers in India, the inevitability of coplaces, and more.

👉 Get these summaries, their source links and 18 other stories you may have missed This Week In Coworking at https://thisweekincoworking.com/week-21-2023/

In Week 20, 2023 we explore if IWG would/could buy WeWork, what may inject millions into local economies, $500M for new US tech hubs, off-peak plans and more.

📰 Summaries and links available at the ThisWeekInCoworking.com website.

This week we explore if flex is in flux, new opportunities for flex bookings, which CBDs have the most coworking spaces, a possible new pay-per-minute space, some European Coworking Day events and more

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~~~ Celebrations

🎂 coho turned 10!

~~~ News & Views

😖 Is flex in a state of flux?

🇩🇪 Spaces in north German join forces to promote coworking

~~~ Technology

👓 Trend: changing interfaces and flex space bookings

~~~ Data

🏙️ Business Districts with the Most Coworking Spaces

🤔 Some other things that World Economic Forum’s report tells us

~~~ Market Moves

⏲ Manchester gets hint of new pay-per-minute hub

🎓 Another uni + coworking partnership launches innovation lab

🚀 Further growth for in Columbus

💰 Coworking space for the 0.1% sets launch date

~~~ Discussions

Jamie Russo dives into some experiments around more work-club-y third spaces on the Everything Coworking podcast.

~~~ Events

👋 Continent-wide coworking member networking event

💓 Why coworking spaces are the beating heart of your local economy

🏙 GWA’s Immersive 2023: Changing models for changing times

🇨🇦 Save the date: Coworking Canada 2023