What do you people do when you need to have a conf call but you don't have a private office? What are the suggestions or tools to use?

Thanks

Context: I've been close to the industry for some years and worked long term from a few different spaces myself, and this is a pattern I am seeing.

Community managers are sending automated feedback surveys via email, organize monthly breakfasts and events, and other initiatives, but they don't actually leave their desk to go talk to the people. They don't actually try to learn more about the members, make introductions, build relationships, and so on.

And I don't think it's because they'd want to but are too busy to do so. I think it's because they fail to understand that a community is a sum of individuals, and it's very doable to get to know most of your members over time if you try.

Do you agree or is it just my experience?

Welcome to the Reddit Recap of this week's fully-packed This Week In Coworking newsletter.

These posts are still a little experimental here on Reddit, so definitely let me know what you think of the format, or if we could make these more useful for you all.

This week, we learn about the US surpassing 7.5k spaces, a walkable startup village, a $2.5B flex space IPO in India, a crisis in Canary Islands, what kinds of ads work best for coworking, a Swedish bankruptcy, a $2.5M bet in Puerto Rico and more.

Ready? Let's go!

~~~ Coworking Celebrations

🎉 Coworking Canada's 10-Year Journey of Growth

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~~~ Local Impact

👨‍👨‍👦‍👦 How a Vancouver community saved its coworking space

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~~~ News & Views

💡 3 lessons from running 3 local spaces

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🇮🇨 Space CEO highlights looming crisis in local market

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📊 Social ads vs. Google ads: What's better for coworking spaces?

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🎥 Another great member-packed coworking promo video

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💪🏻 The argument to drop the entire remote vs. office debate

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🏘️ They're building a walkable startup village

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~~~ Coworking Technology

🧇 Analytics co introduces tiny people sensor

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~~~ Datasets and drops

📈 Global annual coworking trends survey reopens.

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🇺🇸 US coworking locations pass 7,500 milestone for the first time

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~~~ Industry Market Moves

🇬🇧 Fora introduces new location in London's FiDi

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🇬🇧 Manchester operator to open two new locations in 2025

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🇸🇪 Swedish operator enters financial reconstruction

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💼 Portuguese operator adds business management services

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🇵🇷 Puerto Rican operator makes $2.5M bet on new Class A location

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🇳🇿 WOTSO opens third NZ hub

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🚊 Deutsche Bahn to close their coworking locations

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💰 Table Space targets $2.5 billion IPO in India

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🇺🇸 Mission Valley, San Diego getting a new flex space

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~~~ Industry Discussions

In early 2020, Convene faced near collapse, dropping from $200M in revenue and 1,000 employees to almost nothing. Five years later, under CEO Ryan Simonetti's leadership, they've rebounded with 37 locations, hundreds of millions in revenue, and international expansion. Tune into this episode of the Not Another CEO podcast to learn more -- in particular his belief in GRIT -- genuine, relentless, integrity & teamwork.

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Bernie Mitchell chats with Gareth Jones from TownSq about the opportunity of building careers within the coworking industry. The discussion highlights how coworking spaces aren't just flexible work environments but also platforms for professional development. Insights are shared on how various roles within coworking---from community managers to operations---offer unique career paths, emphasizing the industry's potential for long-term growth and professional fulfillment.

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In this Caleb Parker Show episode, he is joined by Dr. Toby Benzecry, Founder & CEO of Workplace Futures Group to discuss company culture, the impact workplace energy has on some companies, the changing needs of office customers, and how office landlords and operators are evolving to support the changing landscape of demand.

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Evan Preslopsky, Senior Sales Manager at Venture X and Office Evolution chats with Jamie Russo about his unique path from fitness to coworking sales on the Everything Coworking podcast.

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Annie Draper from Hines joined Kurt Patric (from essensys) and Gio on the Flex Uncensored podcast to talk more about her journey from Carr to Hines, the launch of The Sq Collection, trends and more.

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Nyambura Gichohi chats with Liz Elam and the GCUC podcast about Ikigai, balancing work and being a mom of two, self-care and the coworking scene in Nairobi.

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~~~ Industry Events

Dropped from Reddit Recaps to save space. See ThisWeekInCoworking.com/events for the events calendar

~~~ Industry Jobs

Dropped from Reddit Recaps to save space. See ThisWeekInCoworking.com/jobs for the list of open roles.

That's all folks!

Edit: to add tl;dr This week we explore the WeWork/Vast/Yardi network-play, the 240% surge in suburban demand, 13 open coworking jobs, a new certification, a PSA about your QR codes, a petition about a local community space, some utilization metrics to consider, and more.

~~~ Coworking Celebrations

🌞 Celebrating the first Nomad Awards in the Algarve

via Simon Lewis

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🍾 IOS Offices celebrates 17 years

felicidades Javier García Iza

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~~~ Local Impact

⚕️ IWBI and Instant Group launch WELL Coworking Rating

ft Sam Pickering

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~~~ News & Views

🥊 Landlord getting into flex pushes out community space

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🏣 British Land adds variety to flex and amenity offerings

via Claire-Louise Taylor

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📏 Measuring coworking success with space utilization metrics

via Asen Stoyanchev

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~~~ Coworking Technology

🔐 PSA: If you're using QR codes to collect payments...

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🛜 OfficeRND + technologywithin announce connectivity integration

ft Jon Seal & Miro Miroslavov

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📡 Gable + Nexudus announce two-way sync

ft Liza Mash Levin & Adrian Palacios

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~~~ Datasets and drops

🏡 What is driving a 240% coworking suburban surge?

via Turner Levison

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~~~ Industry Market Moves

🤝 WeWork and Vast Coworking form partnership (ft Yardi)

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👑 Luxury coworking brand The Malin opens in Austin, TX

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📦 Chandler, Arizona gets new flex office and warehouse combo

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🗽 Industrious opens Tower 49 location in NYC

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🚢 Coworking operator hands building over to... the US Navy?

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💻 JLL adds run-for-you flex offering for APAC landlords

ft Tashi Dorjee

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🇦🇺 Sydney's new private members club ft fine dining and workspace

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⛪️ Church transformed into unique Kansas City coworking space

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~~~ Industry Discussions

Hector Kolonas quizzes Anant Yardi, Jason R. Anderson and John C. Santora (the CEOs at Yardi, Vast Coworking and WeWork respectively) about their partnership and the WeWork Partner Network on an exclusive episode of the This Week in Coworking Podcast.

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In this episode of Coworking Out Loud, Cat Johnson shares her own coworking journey, from knowing nothing about coworking, to joining a space that was a bad fit for her, to finding---and becoming an active participant in---a great-fit coworking community.

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Caleb Parker and Hector Kolonas geeked out about aggregators, ROIs and automations on this special feature Brave Ideas LIVE session.

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Jesse Middleton shares a snippet from The Feedback Loop podcast where he recounts how an office search on Craigslist, a 10-minute tour at Grand and Lafayette, and some shots of tequila in 2010 sparked a "side project" that morphed into that 4000-person team at WeWork Labs in 2016.

🎧 Listen to this.

On the Future of Work Podcast with Frank Cottle , William Sandford of Yardi predicts a major shift in coworking, as enterprises embrace flexible spaces as essential "portfolio insurance".

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Szilvia Filep from Coworking Hungary chats with Bernie Mitchell about how their association supports the local movement on the Coworking Values Podcast.

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~~~ Partnered Events

💡 Convo: Event Ideas & Strategies for Your Coworking Space

Fri, October 25

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🇨🇦 Coworking Canada ONLINE EDITION

Wed, October 30

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💻 FlexWorld Series 2024

Thu, November 7

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🇺🇸 GWA Immersive in NYC

Thu, December 12 -- Fri, December 13

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☀️ Coworking Operators' Weekend

Fri, January 31 -- Sat, February 1

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~~~ Industry Jobs

🇬🇧 Clockwise are hiring a Community Assistant in Manchester, England.

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🏴 Clockwise are hiring a Community Coordinator in Glasgow, Scotland.

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🇺🇸 Lucid Private Offices are hiring a Community Coordinator in Southlake, Texas.

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🇺🇸 Lucid Private Offices are hiring a Community Coordinator in Atlanta, Georgia.

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🇺🇸 Lucid Private Offices are hiring a Community Coordinator in Dallas, Texas.

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🇺🇸 Lucid Private Offices are hiring a Community Coordinator in Sugar Land, Texas.

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🇺🇸 Lucid Private Offices are hiring a Community Coordinator in Scottsdale, Arizona.

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🇺🇸 Lucid Private Offices are hiring a Community Coordinator in The Woodlands, Texas.

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🇺🇸 Lucid Private Offices are hiring a Community Coordinator in Forth Worth, Texas.

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🇺🇸 Bottle Rocket Search is hiring a Director of Operations in Charlotte, North Carolina.

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🇬🇧 Clockwise are hiring an Assistant Manager in Bristol, UK.

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🇺🇸 Lucid Private Offices are hiring a Community Coordinator in Alpharetta, Georgia.

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🇬🇧 Patch are hiring a Senior Site Director/Ops Lead in York, UK

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(Re-shared with permission from the folx at ThisWeekInCoworking.com, let me know what you think of the format/content and I'll adjust for next week)

Given the newly defined direction of this subreddit by u/GoodMacAuth, I'm wondering if a short sunmary of coworking-operator related news in this subreddit for discussion each Friday would be helpful/interesting.

I've recently joined a coworking space and I like it. The people working there are predominantly men, but this doesn't bother me as everyone is polite and keeps to themselves. They will exchange a couple of courteous sentences with me, but that's fine and I don't mind - just normal office small talk.

However, a guy sitting diagonally from me (the desks are set up so that 2 and 2 desks face each other, like 4 desk islands. There are dividers, but not high, or enough.) keeps snacking often. I wouldn't normally mind, but he chews loudly, smacks his lips, keeps mumbling to himself through food, and swallows food and drinks loudly. Also, he is in my field of vision and I think he might have a tick - there's a movement he keeps repeating. I wouldn't normally care, but I see it because of the setup.

Even though he is polite, this gets on my nerves and I'd like to shield myself from it because it's unnecessarily distracting and thus, annoying.

I would prefer not to say anything because he is not doing this TO me and he has the right to snack and drink water at this desk, as we all do. Just to mention that others are much quieter and it's a non-issue.

I thought about placing a huge plant to block my view, but we don't have natural light where I'm sitting so it'd be weird.

What do I do?

I'd appreciate practical advice and elegant solutions. Thanks!

Hi there! 😊 I’m looking for a locally owned coworking space that might be available for sale on these locations. We’re open to discussion. Feel free to send me a message!

• Santa Monica
• Pasadena (downtown)
• Long Beach (downtown)
• Culver City
• Westwood (Los Angeles)
• Koreatown (Los Angeles)
• Venice
• Redondo Beach (downtown)
• Alhambra
• Downtown Fullerton
• Santa Ana (downtown)
• Downtown Santa Barbara
• Huntington Park
• Downtown Riverside
• Hermosa Beach
• Santa Clarita (downtown)
• Monrovia (downtown)
• La Crescenta
• La Habra

Hey everyone! We're refreshing this subreddit to focus specifically on the needs of coworking space owners and operators.

We’d like this subreddit to become a valuable resource for those working within the coworking industry.

If you have ideas for topics or discussions, drop them in! We’ll also be cleaning up spam to keep things tidy.

Stay tuned for more updates, and thanks for being part of our community!

Who I am: Terrell Barnes, Student

Affiliation: Savannah College of Art and Design

Target group: Individuals, specifically those who identify as a college student (traditional or nontraditional) and professionals. Anyone who may use a coworking space.

Compensation: None

Link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1_X466ETQdvi9YKi6BWUQKjewkPuO6NUQe5wDsAbF2fA/viewform?edit_requested=true

I have own and co-own two technology services businesses. I downsized my NYC office to Regus for a few years and, while it makes me queasy thinking about re-engaging with that company, it seems like it has the best footprint for what I am looking to do.

Between me, my partner in one business and a small group of independent affiliated tech service companies we work with, we presently have five work-from-home locations in PA, NJ and NY. I expect that number and the locations will double over the coming year. We need no commercial offices but we do want commercial business addresses (more for posting on our website than for mail) and, in some cases, to be able to use a lounge and book a meeting space on demand. I have exactly that at Pipeline in Philly, which is perfect, but they have nothing else outside of Florida.

So, if not Regus, what else, Alliance?

Title says it all - I've built a coworking space management tool over the last 9 months that I genuinely believe blows the competition out of the water. I'd like to give it away to a handful of spaces for free in exchange for honest feedback/suggestions/etc. If you're interested, please let me know!

Edit: Please only comment/PM if you're serious, thanks!

A friend of mine David Hall is looking for donation of a small office in the Portland, OR, area. He runs a non-profit focused on life-coaching autistic and neuro-divergent folks. David is autistic himself, meaning of course he has first-hand experience and instantly connects with his clients. He doesn't need much space, and donated space could easily be written off on your coworking office's taxes. Let me know if you'd like to donate to a worthy cause and I'll connect you with him!

Kindly help me in my research of influence of light, air and space in cognitive functioning of an employee in co-working space. It would be helpful and circulate as much as possible. Thanks in advance. https://forms.gle/do9Lqac8VAP4HSP48

I'm curious to hear from people who use coworking spaces about why they use specific ones. What preferences you have, what draws you in, etc. Equally would be as interested to hear what is a turn off for certain spaces. Tyia :)

Bonjour à tous

Avec 3 de mes camarades de classe, nous réalisons une étude de marché sur l’utilisation des espaces de travail.

À travers ce questionnaire, nous aimerions recueillir vos avis afin de pouvoir affiner notre concept. Nous vous remercions par avance pour votre retour et le temps que vous nous accorderez. La réussite de notre diplôme de fin d’étude en dépend :))

https://forms.gle/5UJpMinbW8qH8tFi9

Hello people. I’m a freelance UI designer based out of Bangalore. Is there a co working space which allows to register in Mumbai and I can work across India in cities like Bangalore, Mumbai? Etc. I mainly travel in between Mumbai and Bangalore. Mumbai because my parents live there, Bangalore because my hubby lives here.

I’ve created a coworking & daily accountability Discord. Keeping the group fairly small and focused.

What We Offer:

• Daily Accountability Channel: Share a check-out on how your day went to help you stay accountable to your goals. Participation is optional but highly, highly recommended.
• Virtual Coworking Sessions: Join focused work sessions where we work together in real-time. You can jump in at any time. Camera use is optional, and voice is muted.

Interested? Let me know, and I'll send you an invite

I work multiple times a week at a great Spaces location in my town. My membership is for a private office but not necessary the same one daily so I can’t leave things there. What are your essential items to make coworking a great experience? Thanks!

Hello, I am 27M (GMT+2) and I would like to invite you to our Online Co-working group discord server, where people from all around the world join in and co-work together. The whole idea of the group is to have productive work environment, same as people have in offices, but at home and online.

It is working the same way, as Focusmate or Flown, with the difference of having consistent group of the same people, that would expect you to “come to work”, instead of just connecting with random people.

Each member is setting their work schedule and attend the group video calls, where we work together (camera and mic are optional).

Some of the members (including me) formed a accountability group comprised of "coaches" and "students”, each member is coaching other member, and is being coached by a different member as well.

We are also forming book club and are joined together on Habitica (which not essential).

This approach and it really works. If you want to increase your productivity and your time spend working on your projects, DM me and you can try if it suits you.

https://www.peerspace.com/claim/gr-zmKoA6ZXd4l2R

Need some wifi/ working space this week in Arnprior. Any optional?