The new office: how coworking changes the work concept

Leclercq‐Vandelannoitte, Aurélie; Isaac, Henri

doi:10.1108/jbs-10-2015-0105

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“…Yet coworking presents a unique case because, in the face of long-term work fragmentation and outsourcing, coworking promises local communities and collaboration within them. Beyond professional communication, coworking has been studied in different countries, continents, and milieus from different disciplinary perspectives: psychology (Gerdenitsch et al 2016), sociology (Gandini 2015;Ivaldi et al 2018), economic planning (Avdikos and Kalogeresis 2017), urban informatics (Bilandzic 2013), management (Butcher 2013;Capdevila 2015;Jakonen et al 2017;Leclercq-Vandelannoitte & Isaac 2016;Sebekstova et al 2017), design (Parrino 2015), real estate (Green 2014), urban studies (di Marino & Lapintie 2017;Groot 2013;Mariotti et al 2017), organization studies (Garrett et al 2017), and engineering Neonen 2016, 2017;Liimatainen 2015). Although coworking is so varied and implemented in a number of different ways, a common thread appears throughout much of the literature, including both formal studies and the coworking literature.…”

Section: Takedownmentioning

confidence: 99%

“Coworking Is About Community”: But What Is “Community” in Coworking?

Spinuzzi

Bodrožić

Scaratti

et al. 2018

Journal of Business and Technical Communication

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Coworking spaces are shared working environments in which independent knowledge workers gather. Coworking is consistently described in terms of community and collaboration—yet these terms are defined inconsistently in the coworking literature. This study reviews the literature on coworking to better examine how community relates to collaboration. To anchor a more systematic analysis of community in coworking, the authors introduce Adler and Heckscher’s typology of communities; apply it to a study of six coworking spaces in the United States, Italy, and Serbia; and develop the typology to better understand coworking.

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Section: Takedownmentioning

confidence: 99%

“Coworking Is About Community”: But What Is “Community” in Coworking?

Spinuzzi

Bodrožić

Scaratti

et al. 2018

Journal of Business and Technical Communication

152

115

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“…We are referring to the typical corporate tendency where managerial decisions are focused on headhunting and talent acquisition instead of personal talent development, which includes a rethink and redesign of the entire work environment (Richman, 2014). More and more corporate teams are being sent to selected workspaces, where they tend to blend in with independent workers and their networks (Leclercq-Vandelannoitte and Isaac, 2016).…”

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confidence: 99%

The ambience of collaboration in coworking environments

Orel

Almeida

2019

JCRE

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to take an explanatory role and analyse the development of workspace ambiences in coworking spaces which optimise the chance of interactivity between individual users and leading towards cooperation. The paper thus offers a discussion on how the ambience that is tailored to a particular coworking space enhances the possibility of collaboration between two or more users of a selected workspace. Design/methodology/approach Ethnographically guided observations of six coworking spaces and qualitative interviews with their managers were used to gain an understanding of the workspace ambiences in coworking spaces. As direct measurement of the frequency of collaboration would be logistically profound, this paper rather explores the conditions for spontaneous or moderated interactivity between workspace users, which may be regulated by the creation of an optimal coworking space ambience. Findings The following paper defines the coworking space ambience as the look and the feel of a work environment which can arouse certain moods towards a particular place and its users. Coworking spaces may impose various approaches that not only attract potential workspace users and form initial ties between them but also produce a certain ambience that leads to collaborative action between users. The factors of spatial design need to be adapted, and engagement strategies need to be constructed to maximise the preferential output. The research behind the following paper concludes that the factors of spatial comfortability are an essential predisposition for workspace users to engage in cooperation with each other. Various mechanisms are needed to customise these engagements into cooperative action. Originality/value While the outcomes of sharing these environments have been periodically explored, no attempts have been made to investigate how coworking ambience is being created and implemented to optimise collaborative efforts of individuals who are sharing the workspace. For that reason, the audience of this paper should not only be limited to academics but may also be suitable for managers and office-space operators seeking to understand dynamics of collaboration within new types of shared office spaces.

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“…Co-working spaces started by 2005 in San Francisco as cited in (Moriset, 2014) it is a hosting, working and meeting place for entrepreneurs who are carriers of projects and ideas and wish to share them with others; this place is powered by a specific animation intended to create links inside and outside of the community of coworkers. Although current coworking spaces vary in terms of business model, size, specialization and amenities, most are founded to accommodate individuals or groups that are not necessarily employed by a single organization, however users share certain values and are interested in the synergies which may occur from working with like-minded people in the same space (Knoll, 2016).…”

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Coworking spaces: An exploratory study to identify the challenges and different business models in Egypt

Maher¹,

Tantawi²,

Ragheb³

2020

BMR

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The focus of this research is in the area of co-working spaces. Such a study is important in order to enhance the understanding of the growth of co-working spaces in Egypt. Coworking spaces as startups have seen wide expansions worldwide in conjunction with the evolution of the shared economy, start-ups, and entrepreneurial projects and the labor market trends of freelancers and part-time employees. The research approach adopted in this paper is a qualitative approach. Semi structured interviews were conducted with a convenient sample of coworking space managers or founders in Cairo and Alexandria, the main two cities in Egypt which have the largest number of coworking spaces. The interviews aimed to explore their practices, choice of business model adopted among several ones to generate revenue and the challenges faced in running the coworking space. Thus, the questions focused on asking the interviewees to explain the business model adopted by the space as well as the services and networking they provide in addition to the challenges they face in running the business successfully. The findings in this paper revealed that coworking spaces in Egypt are constantly modifying their business model to adjust to market conditions in order to achieve profitability. Thereby, coworking spaces are still in their infancy stage and are subject to many changes and evolutions to meet the market trends. Furthermore, the financial viability and profitability are at stake and founders are adjusting their services and pricing accordingly. Among other results, high employee turnover was highlighted frequently by the managers during their interviews. The academic contribution relies in adding to the coworking space literature with respect to challenges faced in developing countries. The practical implications of this research offer actionable knowledge for coworking space managers and founders to provide the services and activities that would attract their target user and increase their loyalty to the space since users such as small companies have different needs from freelancers and part-time employees.

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The new office: how coworking changes the work concept

Cited by 98 publications

References 6 publications

“Coworking Is About Community”: But What Is “Community” in Coworking?

“Coworking Is About Community”: But What Is “Community” in Coworking?

The ambience of collaboration in coworking environments

Coworking spaces: An exploratory study to identify the challenges and different business models in Egypt

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