Category: Coworking
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How to Research your Local Coworking Market: 3 Key Indicators to Analyze
Are you exploring the market research process of launching a new coworking business in your local area? We often hear the question: How do I know if my local area is a good place to launch a coworking business? Is there a demand for coworking in my area? In order to do some of the […]
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Conjunctured house closing its doors. Going #Nomatik to open coworking model into greater society
Conjunctured, Austin’s first coworking space and one of the original coworking spaces in the world, will be closing its doors at the end of August. Conjunctured first pioneered the coworking movement in Austin six years ago, when coworking was a brand new concept. Over the years, Conjunctured has explored expansion several times. In 2010 the […]
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Far Beyond the Cubicle
By Drew Jones On Thursday of last week I was fortunate enough to participate in a panel discussion about the future of work and corporate coworking at Workspring in Chicago. Using my new book, The Fifth Age of Work, as a jumping off point, we had a panel of some really amazing folks threading together […]
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Guest Post: Thoughts on Corporate Coworking
The following is a guest post from Dennis Tardan, an outspoken and passionate member of the Conjunctured community. We’ve had conversations at length about the ideas inherent within our Corporate Coworking initiative and the dialogue has resonated so much with him that we invited him to share his thoughts here on the blog. Thank you Dennis! I […]
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Activity Based Work
Veldhoen + Company, the Dutch workplace consultancy that pioneered Activity Based Work, is one of the most important companies you’ve never heard of. ABW is, essentially, mass scale corporate coworking. Everyone in the company, including the CEO and other top managers, gets a laptop and a locker for storage. People choose workspaces that fit the […]
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At the Crossroads
Standing at the Crossroads! There is something about Austin, Texas, and there is something about Conjunctured, though I’m still not sure what that something is. However, here we are, and both Austin and Conjunctured sit as crossroads for people in local, national, and global communities. Not a week goes by here at Conjunctured when someone […]
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Employee Experience Design: Corporate Coworking, Part V
Over the past two weeks we have been writing about our new foray into corporate coworking. We’ve been chatting about leadership and community, which sit at the center of any organization or social movement. When we move the conversation from coworking in its native environment to coworking in a corporate environment (or Activity Based Work), […]
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Co-mmunity: Corporate Coworking Part, IV
Earlier in the week I wrote here about the concept of co-leadership as part of the social dynamic that has made coworking a successful movement over the past seven years. Even more fundamental to the movement, though, is community. While perhaps the notion of community has been so overused by so many people in the […]
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Co-Leadership: Corporate Coworking, Part III
Co-Leadership is the third installment in our series on ‘corporate coworking.’ In Part I we introduce the notion of corporate coworking to a broader audience. We have been kicking this around for a while, and apparently so have others in the world of HR (see John Sullivan’s parallel but rather different take on corporate coworking […]