It’s a dream long held by working parents: to work without distraction and yet have one’s child close at hand. These entrepreneurial women are changing the way parents work by building coworking communities that include childcare.
“I’m looking out the window now at the Andes mountains, a magnificent backdrop for the city of Santiago…” Globetrotting coworker Ashok Amaran introduces us to the Coworking Visa program, CoPass, and other services that enable coworkers to live and work anywhere.
Members of Utopic_US in Madrid traveled to the German capital to trade places with members of Betahaus in Berlin. Rafa Moreno of Spanish magazine Zona Coworking tells us what happened.
10 successful campaigns which collectively raised over 1.8 million dollars: who’s behind all this? Just the coworkers at Poligon Creative Centre. In this in-depth interview we hear about one coworking space’s use of crowdfunding and other initiatives that provide economic value for members.
From productivity experiments in German factories, to the 1100-ft desk, companies have experimented with shared workspace, leading us to our current experiment in creating dynamic coworking and maker spaces. PhD researcher Perttu Salovaara discusses the history of shared workspace and the communities that form within them.
People are sharing workspace and coworking is becoming a norm. Now, an older sharing concept — bartering time and skills in lieu of payment — is making a comeback and it may be happening in a coworking space near you.
Where does a coworking space’s culture come from? In my experience coworking in Paris and Nice, France, some spaces are transformational and rich with community, and others border on terrible. It has everything to do with who’s in charge.
We named our magazine after an amorphous vision of what a new worker might be, but that doesn’t necessarily make us experts as to what the hell a new worker actually is. So we called for help. Here we talk to coworking space owners in Morocco and New York about the new economy (and how […]
