The Design Ecology of Work
In a previous book- The Fifth Age of Work- I began with a simple but perhaps odd question: What would HR in a company look like if a designer were put in charge? I tried to answer...
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Open Source Coworking Development Framework
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Demystifying Coworking Space Financials: Consultant Pulls Back the Curtain of the Coworking Business Model
Anyone can start a coworking space. If planned effectively, it's possible to secure financial backing from lending institutions or local angel investors. As the world's first coworking consultancy (serving coworking startups since 2014 and players in...
Trust: Making it Work
In a much overlooked 2007 article, "Dignity at Work" (in the journal Organization), sociologist Andrew Sayer outlines the connections between employee autonomy, trust in employees, respect for their work, and being taken seriously as the foundations for what...
Activity Based Coworking
What's in a word? Or a phrase? Over the past thirty years companies of all stripes and sizes have embraced the concept of activity based working (ABW). ABW is a workplace strategy where employees do not have...
Architects have long known that well-designed space can frame and direct human behavior
Too often, office design ignores this and proceeds to lavish wasteful workspaces on the company's senior executives while relegating rank and file employees to supposedly "collaborative" open plan offices. Any truly open and innovative company culture...
Hotel Coworking featured in Today’s Hotelier
OpenWork Founding Partner, Andrew Jones, recently published a guest article in Today's Hotelier. The article, discussing the growing trend of Hotel Coworking, opens the door to the opportunity of embracing the coworking model within the...
OpenWork dot Design
Over the past five years we have been helping asset owners and real estate developers with their various coworking projects. Some of these have been at the early stage, conducting feasibility assessments to get to a...
Is there a way back to coworking?
Over the past five years we at the OpenWork Agency have helped real estate developers and entrepreneurs around the world with their various "coworking" projects. I use quotes here because for anyone familiar with the original coworking...
The Two Disruptions of Corporate Coworking
Coworking Grows Up In a little over a decade coworking has grown from being a scrappy officing solution for freelancers and startups into a multibillion dollar industry with thousands of operators around the world.[1] Defined as ‘a multi-company campus...