Gastbeitrag: Coworking Boom im Lande – Die Professionalisierung einer Bewegung. Noch vor kurzem wurde Coworking und die daraus hervorgegangenen Coworking-Spaces als die „Arbeitsheimat“ der „digitalen Boheme“ belächelt. Der Begriff Coworking (engl. “zusammen arbeiten”) ist eine amerikanische Wortschöpfung und bezeichnet ursprünglich nicht viel mehr als ein auf Grund hoher Mieten gemeinschaftlich genutztes Büro in innerstädtischen Zentren mit der dazugehörigen Infrastruktur, sprich Internetzugang, Telefon und vielleicht noch einer Kaffeemaschine.
Dieser pragmatische Ansatz, der vor allem von Freiberuflern gerne genutzt wurde, erhielt im Zuge des anhaltenden Outsourcing-Trends in Branchen wie der IT oder den kreativen Dienstleistungen im letzen Jahrzehnt immer größeren Zulauf. In den Ballungszentren der USA, etwas später auch in Europa, entstanden in der Folge große Coworking – Spaces mit angegliederten Cafes und modern ausgestatteten Meeting- und Veranstaltungsräumen. Aus benachbarten Schreibtischen wird ein Kompetenz-Cluster Freelancer als begehrte Zielgruppe. Coworking Space Logos - Coworking Cologne. Europe to get a London TechHub for startups to meet and work in. Europe has no real equivalent to the big hothouse that is Silicon Valley, but it does have lots of tech clusters and networks. As recent research from the startup Seedcamp startup programme has shown, clusters of innovation are spread far and wide across Europe. One place everyone agrees is a key cluster is London.
It now hosts offices belonging to all the top-tier pan-European VCs, several new Seed funds, has a very active Angel investor market and hosts many major tech events. However, largely because of its cost – everything is still expensive here – London remains hard for European startups to access and get into, even in a recession. It’s incredibly cheap to rent an office in Berlin, for instance. In London it can be double the price. And although European and US entrepreneurs often need to take meetings and work in London, they don’t always need permanent office space, which can be extremely restrictive to startups. To some extent events and conferences are great for networking.
New trend: 'Co-working,' where people share office space. By Jon Swartz, USA TODAY AUSTIN — While masses crammed the South by Southwest Interactive tech show over the weekend, a spacious home on the east side of town housed a thriving new techie trend. "Co-working" businesses, like Conjunctured here, offer homey environs for people to work, brainstorm and drink as much free coffee as they like. Conjunctured's 22 members pay a monthly fee of $250. The concept is not new. Such facilities surfaced a couple years ago, but they are thriving because the economy has forced companies and non-profits to use them as a practical way to save money.
They are especially appealing to one-person businesses, which grew 8% in 2008, the most recent year for which data are available, according to the Small Business Administration. Despite a rise in vacancies, office rentals remain pricey, at $27.80 per square foot nationally, says Reis, a New York firm that tracks commercial property.Co-working services are sprouting in Austin, San Francisco, Boston and New York. Officing Today | Trends and Updates | Business Center versus Co-Working Space.
Published Thursday, July 15th, 2010, by Mike Sullivan. Like the modern technological world we live in, the way we work has expanded beyond our own physical tools or human understanding. Networking has become paramount, and the possibilities of how each connection can help us are endless. Because of this, the growing trend of co-working is shining with a new light on our industry. So, how does co-working differ from serviced offices?
Co-working is a brash idea that is a far cry from the straight-laced, suit wearing work days that the modern business centers was built upon, co-working offers a unified solution to both what the mounting problems of a burgeoning technological world, and a starved economy have to offer. The idea is simple, and in its simplicity, brilliant. The difference is in their approach to the workspace, the client, and how they present their solution to the entrepreneur. Step one: They take a giant workspace, and open its doors to smaller companies. See. Mike Sullivan.