coworking

Coworking is a style of work that involves a shared working environment, often an office, and independent activity.

Coworking facilities can range from shared space in formal offices to social areas such as a coffee shop.

Now, coworking places exist worldwide, with over 700 locations in the United States alone.

The 27,000-square-foot facility featured similar coworking, events, and diverse curriculum of classes opened in April 2013.

During these events Coworkers can experience the benefits of Coworking and get to know each other which lowers the barriers to join a place later.

Real-estate centric coworking spaces are about selling desks first, with building community as a secondary goal.

An informal, temporary coworking gathering, also called "jellies"

Digital nomads also often use coworking spaces, cafes, house sitting agreements, and shared offices in major cities around the world.

Collaboration is one of the five coworking core values: Collaboration, openness, community, accessibility and sustainability.

ONE of the most frequently cited advantages of coworking is the cross pollination that takes place.

Coworking is not only about the physical place, but about establishing the coworking community first.

Many places combine coworking with startup incubators, accelerators, funding schemes and mentorship support.

Coworking is gaining popularity as number of single-person businesses in the United States is skyrocketing.

Cowork at the Michigan is a shared coworking space in the historic Michigan Building.

Coworking is also becoming more common in continental Europe, with the startup metropolis Berlin being a major booster for this development.

Yet others have started coworking spaces as businesses unto themselves, like a community version of the corporate business centers operated by the Regus Group.

Perhaps the most successful has been the Sandy Coworking Crowdmap, which helped businesses displaced by the storm find places to set up shop free.

This shift has generated, among others, such concepts as "networks of learning" and "networked learning", coworking, and knotworking.

Many misconceptions abound about what coworking encompasses and how it distinguishes itself from business accelerators, incubators and executive suites.

Messina is best known for his involvement in helping to create the BarCamp, Spread Firefox, and coworking movements.

Coworking in Asia has become very popular since space is limited in major countries like India, Singapore and Hong Kong.

Today it contains a bar, restaurant, retail space, office space, a parking garage, and the shared coworking space Cowork at The Michigan.

Loffice started as a coworking (collaborative working) space in the 6th district of Budapest, Hungary, in the halls of a former sheet music printing factory.

Also smaller urban areas with many young and creative people and especially university cities may offer coworking places, with Cowork Greifswald in Germany being one example.

Ryan Tyler, another original tenant, said coworking made a huge improvement in his productivity, while allowing him to make quite a few friends and great business contacts through the office.