Welcome to the experimental audio recap of the news, views, market moves and tech updates you may have missed This Week In Coworking.
This week (and last) we saw a guide for opening new hubs, a $498k local gov. contract tender, a new time-saving tool for flex space tasks, more fractional office plays, 5 types of digital nomads, flex space capacity doubling in Ireland, and more.
Let's dive in 👇
~~~ Impact
🇬🇧 New impact-focused hub in Victoria, London by x+why, Grosvenor and Westminster Foundation
- via Rupert Dean
💊 The antidote to loneliness and poor mental health for founders and leaders
- via Iris Kavanagh & Women Who Cowork
~~~ News & Views
📅 Unpacking the critical steps when opening a new coworking hub
- via Claire Carpenter, Happy Working Lab and The Melting Pot
🧐 The growth of “combo-coworking”
- via Steve King
📝 New paper defines 5 kinds of digital nomads
🇺🇸 A juicy short summary of GCUC North America
- via Michael Abrams & Charlotte Kirby
🤔 Is coworking the answer to what should be done with ground floor space?
- via Cal Lee
~~~ Technology
⏩ New tool speeds up flex space tasks, across other tools
- via Robert Kropp at Syncaroo
🕣 Booking platform Hubble adds part-time office offering
- via Tushar Agarwal
🔗 Booking platform Hotdesk nabs great .com domain
😖 hubli adds internal space booking engine
~~~ Data
🔟 One of the 10 shifts transforming orgs is how and where people work
- via McKinsey & Company
🔑 To offer lockers, or not to?
- via Pauline Roussel
🇮🇪 Flex space capacity in Ireland expected to double in 2023
- via Workthere, Savills Ireland, RTE
~~~ Market Moves
☀️ Brighton gets a new Runway East hub
🏘️ Basildon borough council put out workspace operator tender
- via Jim Sims
🇬🇧 Cubo Work completes 7th local location and eyes international expansion
- via Marc Brough
🇨🇦 IWG plc eyes more growth in Ontario, Canada
- via Wayne Berger
🇺🇸 THRIVE | Coworking adds new location in Cumming, GA
- via Natalie Salvador
~~~ Discussions
DeShawn Brown and Cat Johnson talk about being a product of coworking, the intersection of community and tech, and how coworking space operators have a ridiculously challenging job that involves high emotional work and being able to task switch constantly on the Coworking Out Loud podcast.
Lindsay Hedenskog chats with Jose Antonio Morales about building a movement, and a space that encompasses everything a human needs to work at LAMB in Stockholm on the Visionaries podcast series.
Tim Slaughter shares the Caddo Office Reimagined story with Jamie Russo and Giovanni Palavicini on the Flex Uncensored podcast and how they grew to building 35k of neighborhood office space in 2023, and only offer 3 membership options.
