Coworking Spaces Research Articles

The impact of Covid-19 on coworking spaces: evidence from Germany

Purpose Prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, the German coworking industry has grown rapidly as one of the fastest-growing coworking markets globally. The pandemic, however, has brought the industry to an abrupt halt. The purpose of this paper is, therefore, to explore the impact the pandemic has had so far on German coworking spaces. Design/methodology/approach Using an online questionnaire, quantitative data from 38 coworking space owners, operators and employees of a total of 77 spaces in Germany has been collected regarding their situation before, during and after the peak of the first wave of the pandemic from Spring until Summer 2020. The data has been analyzed using descriptive statistics. Findings The reported income losses significantly outweigh a decrease in costs of the spaces. Nevertheless, the member base seems rather unaffected, and coworking spaces are exploring adaptations to their businesses with a strong shift to the digital environment. Fear of re-imposed governmental restrictions is evident, as well as justified with a looming second infection wave. Research limitations/implications Due to the sample size, the data may lack generalizability. Therefore, recommendations for future research are provided. Originality/value Data on the impact of the pandemic on coworking spaces is scarce. This paper provides a first necessary overview for the industry as well as the academic field to allow for action to be taken.

Exploring investment paradigm in urban office space management: perspectives from coworking space investors in Nigeria

PurposeCoworking space had been a trajectory in the commercial space operation and management globally. Commercial coworking/tenancy space is confronted with an unexpected shift. This paper aims to examine the peculiarity and investment characteristics of flexible office space and the post-COVID implications on coworking office space practice and investment. This is with a view toward providing investors with an understanding of the dynamics underpinning flexible office space investment in the Nigerian emerging property market.Design/methodology/approachThis study adopted a qualitative research approach. Open-ended interview questions were used to solicit information from nine coworking space operators in the urban property market of Ibadan, Nigeria. The structured interview data were analyzed using Atlas.ti – a computer-aided qualitative data analysis software.FindingsThe findings show that the factors influencing demand for flexible office space in the study area include flexibility, affordability, cost-effectiveness, entrepreneurship motivations and opportunity for risk sharing. The results also revealed that coworkers are predominantly mobile individuals who require a workstation away from their homes or a traditional office setup. Management challenges include deficient infrastructure, low level of awareness, stealing and high cost of operations. The impact of COVID-19 includes a drop in patronage, rent refunds, changes in working pattern and job loss, restriction to online and remote operation, the extra cost of putting prevention measures in place, changes in tenancy contract and drops in return on investment.Practical implicationsThis study has implications for investors in commercial space occupation and leases in comparable developing economies.Originality/valueThe novelty of this paper lies in its relevance with the emergent behavioral changes, orchestrated from the novel COVID-19, which compels reevaluation of workplace practices and investment for economic improvement, especially as it relates to commercial real estate investment.

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Pelatihan Kewirausahaan Menggunakan Modul Gender Entrepreneurship Together (GET) Ahead Bagi Pemuda/I Usia Produktif Di Kota Jayapura

In an effort to improve the community's economy, raising the spirit of entrepreneurship is an important thing that can be done by the campus. This service activity aims to train the community, especially young people of productive age in getting business ideas, identifying and calculating production costs and doing bookkeeping for recording business transactions and marketing products and services. The training held on 15 and 17 April 2021 at the GARAP Kotaraja Co-Working Space training room, Jayapura City. The participants of the activity were 19 youths aged 19 – 22 years. The training was carried out by introducing the basic concept of gender in business and the equal role of women and men in running their businesses. Participants were then asked to brainstorm ideas about the types of businesses around them and identify applicable business ideas. Furthermore, this training trains participants to calculate the business costs of products and services and then collect these costs into production costs. The following material is about bookkeeping in running a business which is needed to know the financial condition of the business and as a basis for evaluating the condition of the business. The aspect of the ability to do marketing is learned in this training through case study analysis. The mechanism for monitoring and evaluating training activities is carried out through the distribution of pre and post test questionnaires which are distributed to training participants before and after the activity.

Non-standard work in unconventional workspaces: Self-employed women in home-based businesses and coworking spaces

This article looks into the new production dynamics and workspaces related to urban change by examining a rising group of workers: self-employed women who have started their own businesses or freelance activities from home or coworking spaces. This empirical study applies an intersectional approach to examine the job satisfaction and work–life balance of home-based workers according to employment status, gender and generation by means of a mixed-method approach, combining the statistical analysis of a dataset of 43,850 workers from the European Working Conditions Survey with in-depth interviews. The findings reveal that work intensity, working time quality and prospects depend more on an individual being self-employed than on being home-based; however, earnings and time devoted to care work are strongly shaped by working from home. Moreover, the profiles of home-based self-employed workers were completely different by gender and age. Although millennials (i.e. those born between 1980 and 1995) differ significantly from previous generations, gender inequality also prevails among the young. Combining working at home with coworking could be a solution to offset the lack of interactions and social capital of home-based entrepreneurs and to increase their earnings.

Business Model Canvas Design As An Alternative Strategy On Coworking Space

The term Coworking Space is usually used for an office building that has the concept of offering a sharing area between one company and another to accommodate the company's business needs. Coworking Space users can come from startups (Start Up) to enterprise scale companies. The problem experienced by Coeorking Space is the lack of market penetration and the lack of information regarding coworking space in Indonesia, while the rate of economic growth is increasing rapidly, so there is a need for forms of spaces that can become centers of activity and interaction for cross-sector creative economy actors, both government and actors. business / industry, academics, as well as creative communities / forums. An alternative solution to solving these problems is to design a business model canvas that can be a strategy for the development of coworking spaces that can support the growth of the creative economy. The steps taken is to analyze the advantages and disadvantages of coworking space using SWOT analysis techniques, which are then mapped into nine blocks of the business model canvas.

Coworking spaces and Start-ups: Empirical evidence from a product market competition and life cycle perspective

This paper is an empirical analysis – based on classic buyer–seller relationship theory – of the spatial relationship between coworking spaces and start-ups in an entrepreneurial ecosystem. We examine the relation between product market competition among coworking spaces and the life-cycle stages of their partnering start-ups, both of which influence the level of trust between the partners. In our hand-collected sample of coworking spaces in Germany’s seven largest cities, our findings indicate that mature start-ups are more likely to partner with coworking spaces in regions where product market competition among the latter is high. The relation between the number of nascent start-ups and product market competition among coworking spaces is found to be hump-shaped, indicating that nascent start-ups are more likely to partner with coworking spaces where market competition is neither too low nor too high. Our findings are corroborated by a European study based on WeWork data.

Shared Spaces or Shelters for Precarious Workers? Coworking Spaces in Italy

This paper critically discusses the relationship between new workspaces, such as Coworking Spaces (CSs), professionals using such spaces, and the related work patterns, looking at the Italian context in particular. There appears to be a mismatch between the educational level of such workers, their expertise and expected professional status on the one hand, and their reality in terms of employment precariousness and low income, on the other. It appears that CSs and, more in general, new shared workspaces act more as shelters from a difficult and exclusionary job market than as mainly ‘serendipity accelerators’. The hypothesis of this article is that, through a careful interpretation of the emerging dimensions and spatial effects of CSs, it is possible to more clearly identify some dynamics of inclusion and exclusion on the one hand, and of sharing and competition on the other, that characterize the job path of new knowledge-based occupational groups.

Coworking spaces and virtual learning communities in Social Networks: Case Study of #ElClaustroDeIG on Instagram

Social networks are consolidated as spaces for the exchange of valuable content. It is not surprising to find spaces for the exchange of good teaching practices in virtual learning communities, so the objective of this study is to analyze, through the case study of #ElClaustrodeIG on Instagram, the educational content focused on teaching that is shared for the Ibero-American community in Spanish, as well as the analysis of the users who share their experiences and good practices in this social network. In order to do this, content analysis is first carried out, through an analysis sheet to 300 posts and a questionnaire is applied to 130 users of this hashtag on Instagram in order to analyze their patterns of use, their interests and motivations, their training in ICT and social networks, as well as the impact that the use of this social network has on their professional development and the gratification they expect. The results show that most of the publications are about good practices for primary and preschool education while most of the users think that Instagram is an ideal space for non-formal learning, applying in the classrooms many of the good practices shared in this coworking space.

Resistance, activism and ordinary life: an editorial introduction

ABSTRACT On the streets, over the internet, in the malls, across neighbourhoods, the Hong Kong resistance grows with the shaping of a consciousness of common identity under oppression. Inscribed in the ‘structure of feeling' of our time, such articulation of the ordinary as local messes up people's everyday trajectory in the unholy partnership between global capitalism and Chinese authoritarianism. This special volume offers a telling account of the embedded politics of affect involved. Challenged by the uncanny facelessness of the present, we examine the dire condition of the cityscape and the livelihood it traces. We analyse substantive tactics of critique ranging from eco-writing of Hong Kong as colony to habits of singing in an erotic Taiwanese teahouse. While local activism of a different sort assimilates unlikely cultural resources in Mainland China, taken together these struggles for identity situate subjects in their roles as consumer, entertainer, freelancer, digital gamer, cultural activist as well as intellectual. The locality of resistance moves from a translocal football stadium to a co-working space in Shanghai, from massive street demonstrations in the postcolony to switched-on enactments of cyber-‘activism'. Performing politics amid multiple relays of quotidian acts, individuals feed their ordinary imagination to alternative critiques. What transpires is a community evolving from fan solidarity to intimacy, erotic narrative to friendship, provincial sex-entertainment to urban self-entrepreneurship. Everyday contacts and lived fantasies link invisible writers to invisible readers, clients with hostesses, and drifting memes to drifting netizens. Despite tyranny, diffuse voices upset the status quo. As people enact their acts of identity, they reframe the given politics of affect by making the crushed ordinary life bearable of a fan, a creative labourer, a queer erotic addict, a teahouse hostess and her frustrated client, a frustrated, agitated intellectual, a desperate street activist, as well as millions of faceless online ‘subjects’.

Coworking spaces: tools for spatial resilience in the post-Covid era?

Depuis un an, l’ensemble des nouveaux espaces de travail collaboratifs et des tiers lieux, dont les espaces de coworking (ECW) sont affectés par la pandémie. Une revue de presse systématique en tant que méthode qualitative originale permet d’acquérir un matériau secondaire contextualisé à travers des témoignages et exemples précis en France. Cette note de recherche présente les principaux résultats concernant les solutions mises en œuvre pour faire face aux effets de la crise sanitaire et la diversification des télétravailleurs qui fréquentent les ECW. Dans une dimension prospective, nous étayons l’hypothèse que le coworking post Covid-19 puisse être un instrument au service de la résilience des territoires à partir de plusieurs entrées analytiques : l’échelle spatiale, les pratiques urbanistiques et le rôle des politiques publiques.

ORGANIZAÇÕES DE ECONOMIA CRIATIVA: UMA ANÁLISE DO TRABALHO NAS EMPRESAS PARTICIPANTES DO PROGRAMA RIO CRIATIVO

The concept of creative economy refers to a set of activities that depend on symbolic content, which includes creativity as a raw material. The article aims to analyze the organizational dimension of work in companies participating in the incubation process of the Rio Criativo program. To fulfill the objective, a qualitative field research was carried out. As data collection, documentary research and semi-structured interviews were adopted. The analysis was based on content analysis. The main results obtained are related to the relevance of an incubator for the consolidation of companies in the creative economy sector, the incentive to develop projects, the work performed virtually or in a coworking space, the importance of social networks and the relationship of work with innovation. In addition, opportunities for creative businesses are growing, but the domestic market needs to be developed and stimulated. Therefore, it is emphasized that the development of the creative economy needs adequate public policies, which consider the need for specific lines of financing, tax differentiation and systems for the standardization of enterprises.

A Proposed Ideal Network Design for Collaborative Workspace Businesses

Collaborative workspace businesses are now a trend in developing countries such as the Philippines. Coworking space is a business service provision model that lets individuals and teams work independently or collaboratively in a shared office space. In the Philippines, there is a big trend in starting a coworking space business. The millennial generation, which comprises the bulk of the metropolitan sector, is the main reason behind coworking space growth. Computer networking can contribute to the improvement of sales and customer retention and service of coworking space businesses. Implementing managed network services will reduce operational, maintenance, service, hardware, software, and infrastructure costs. Managed network services can enable the coworking space business to focus on its primary business goals In this paper, an ideal network design for collaborative workspace businesses was developed. The building floor layout is essential for the managed networks' design. It was determined that a two-story floor layout is ideal for the company and for implementing the proposed network design. Analysis of ideal network management was proposed in administration, operation, security, and maintenance. Detailed logical and physical network designs with ideal network equipment and technologies were created to improve the coworking space business's services by implementing managed networks.

Digitization as a Driver fur Rural Development—An Indicative Description of German Coworking Space Users

Background: The urban-rural land divide is visible through where people choose to work. This article aims to detect how, where and why people use rural coworking spaces instead of or in addition to working in urban areas. Methods: The research relied on both documented evidence and a structured survey among users of coworking spaces. Results: We found that the choice of working in rural coworking spaces draws on certain benefits and opportunities for its users, such as avoiding social isolation, separating private and professional life, reducing the commuting. An additional benefit for rural towns and villages is that the presence of a coworking space can make the location more vital, lively and attractive. Conclusions (and recommendations): Coworking space could partially bridge the urban-rural land divide. However, understanding this requires more insights in the behavior of rural coworking space users. Further research could look into modelling cause-effect relations and predicting coworking user behavior and the effect on their environment.

PERENCANAAN DAN PEMODELAN 3D STRUKTUR GEDUNG CO-WORKING SPACE 4 LANTAI SOEKARNO HATTA KOTA MALANG BERBASIS BUILDING INFORMATION MODELING (BIM)

The rapid development of information technology provides lots of benefits for construction. In several construction works, related to various scientific disciplines, there are often inefficiency and ineffectiveness during the process of planning and project implementation. Thus, we need a certain technology as a solution for the more efficient and integrated building planning, which is Building Information Modeling (BIM). One of the BIM-based software that is able to analyze the structures and the detailing structural elements is called Tekla Structural Designer 2019 and Tekla Structures 2020. The purpose of this study is to find out the result of analysis and the design of roof structural elements, slabs, beams, columns, stairs, bored pile foundations, pile caps, and tie beams in the 4-storey Building Structures of Co-working space Soekarno Hatta Malang City based on Building Information Modeling (BIM). The data needed was the dead load data, live load, wind load, earthquake load, technical drawings, and soil data. The analysis and the design of reinforced concrete structural elements based on the Tekla Structural Designer 2019 and rebar detailing using the Tekla Structures 2020. From the calculation data, the result obtained for the seismic base shear force of 1673 kN. The structures of the roof, slabs, beams, stairs, and tie beams using fc’ 25 MPa quality concrete. Columns structure, bored pile foundations, and pile caps using quality concrete fc’ 30 MPa. The quality of reinforcing steel for all concrete structural elements using fy 400 MPa

Do We Have a Match? Assessing the Role of Community in Coworking Spaces Based on a Person-Environment Fit Framework.

As working arrangements become more flexible and many people work remotely, the risk of social isolation rises. Coworking spaces try to prevent this by offering not only a workplace, but also a community. Adopting a person-environment fit perspective, we examined how the congruence between workers' needs and supplies by coworking spaces relate to job satisfaction and intent to leave. We identified five needs (i.e., community, collaboration, amenities, location, and cost), of which community was expected to be the central need. An online questionnaire was distributed among coworkers in Germany and Austria, resulting in a sample of 181 coworkers. Results showed that needs-supplies fit regarding community was related to job satisfaction and intent to leave in coworking spaces. Findings for the other needs, however, did not show that congruence is associated with outcomes. Overall, the findings highlight the importance of community fit in coworking and offer insights for workers and entrepreneurs in this area.

CO-WORKING SPACE DI PONTIANAK DENGAN PENDEKATAN EKOLOGI

Currently, there is an increase in workforce that start new independent businesses in the creative economy, either as entrepreneurs or freelancers, this because number of job is not comparable to the number of the workforce. The increase in workers in the creative economy is in line with the digital transformation in Indonesia. The government also responded well to this by making programs related to the creative economy, especially in the digital field. Pontianak City has the potential for development with an increase in the number of workers in the creative economy every year, but Pontianak City does not yet have space to accommodate workers' activities. Co-working space can accommodate workers in the creative economy so they can work in a productive and creative environment. In addition, the provision of supporting digital services in co-working spaces is expected to support entrepreneurs or freelancers in developing their business into the digital field. The co-working space design process uses an ecological approach. Ecological approach is an approach that is environmentally friendly. The Ecological Approach serves as a tool that are implemented towards designs that take into account the potential for the natural surroundings as well as the interrelationships between buildings, nature and people.

Social networks in coworking spaces and individual coworker\u2019s creativity

Coworking spaces (CWS) are open creative labs that provide a community-like environment and the necessary surroundings for their users to build and maintain networks with different actors inside and outside the CWS. With a wide variety of knowledge and skills available in trusted surroundings as well as similar value orientations, coworkers enjoy favorable conditions to establish their network-style. However, research has not investigated the benefit of coworkers’ social networks as far as their individual creativity is concerned so far. This paper takes several network characteristics into account: structure in terms of network size and centrality in the CWS, but also trusted and reciprocal relationships, supportiveness, diversity of knowledge exchanged, and the individual openness to core coworking values. Based on the literature on social networks and small group research, we developed a research model. We tested it to get deeper insights into the phenomenon by relying on 113 coworkers in 33 private German coworking spaces. The results show that a central position in the CWS allowing for direct exchange and high individual openness to core coworking values positively affects social involvement and the diversity of knowledge exchanged, and finally, a coworker’s individual creativity. Managerial implications include the vital role of a central position in the CWS for creativity and a somewhat balanced composition of coworkers working alone or in a team.

Coworking space: second place, third place, or both?

This study discusses the shifting function of places between First Place, Second Place, and Third Place in a coworking space and workplace by understanding the relationship between spatial designs and behaviors possibility by its nested affordances. In building smart cities, the aspects of workplaces must be considered. The study engaged with the implementation of the character’s perception into space, based on Gibson’s theory of nested affordances in interactions between perception and action. With affordances as interactive possibilities from particular objects or environments. This research employed a means-end hierarchy method to acknowledge the nested relationship that occurs in two study cases. The study is a literature study about nested spaces in a workspace using secondary data from articles, web, and social media. The study reveals that space or place from a particular feature does not always have the same nested feature and functions as space or place that it occupies, which creates nesting function of places from first place, second place, third place, and vice versa. Showing how smart workplaces accommodates various needs of the workers.

What Do We Know about Co-Working Spaces? Trends and Challenges Ahead

Co-working spaces (CWSs) have emerged as a distinctive phenomenon in the sharing economy. They are collaborative environments that feed innovation and creativity under the slogan “working alone together”. While policy makers and scholars were optimistic about their role in promoting entrepreneurial endeavours and fostering growth, the spread of the COVID-19 across the world has drastically changed the way we work, communicate, and navigate daily life. This study offers a comprehensive review of the existing literature on CWSs. To do so, a bibliometric analysis is proposed, combining the use of traditional bibliometric tools with science mapping techniques. A total of 118 documents are reviewed and the results are presented at two different levels: (1) descriptive analysis of the status of the research on a CWS and (2) its conceptual structure (topics and trends). The study concludes with some directions for future research. Specifically, based on the recurrent topics discussed up to date in the literature, it is possible to identify four key areas—i.e., geographical location, physical space, business models and inclusive communities—that are promising for research and that may bring useful insights for defining co-working’s place in a post-pandemic society.