Coworking Places in Hungary During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Abstract

A global pandemic affected the type and place of work in several ways. For coworking places it caused disruptions according to direct (e.g. measures) and indirect (e.g. urban outmigration) reasons. The present chapter focuses on how coworking places in Hungary choose different adaptation strategies to deal with the unprecedented challenge that COVID-19 accounted for. It gives insight into the Hungarian pandemic situation between 2020 and 2022, identifying restrictions and no state financial aid whatsoever which determined the playing field for coworking places. The chapter contains different sections related to the outbreak and the Hungarian coworking landscape as well as coping strategies these alternative workspaces relied on to survive the first two years of the pandemic: location change, size reduction, change of function, and relying on informal networks are the identified ones.

Editorial: Institute for Regional Studies – Forty years in regional research, and beyond

“…We explored the centreperiphery relations of new work spaces and the institutional embeddedness and resilience of these spaces (c.f. Bálint et al 2023 andBálint, Horeczki, Lux 2024 present issue). Furthermore, the research group investigated the culture of trust in the context of innovative societies, providing a synthesis of the conceptual and methodological issues of trust research, contrasting the situational approach of trust research with the concept of trust dispositions.…”