“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.
I quit my job to take a sabbatical and live a minimalist lifestyle, and in that time made the number one app in the App Store. But life goes on. Here are the takeaways from my brush with fame and my understanding of success in the long run.
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 […]
People enter the world of coworking in pursuit of greener pastures. But sometimes they don’t know how to actually get the green – the money. South African serial entrepreneur Alon Lichtenstein argues that coworking spaces should start recruiting independent sales people that can match up with freelancers and startups who need sales help. This is […]
