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Where we work is changing, and that change is likely for good.

Amid continued concerns over the spread of coronavirus, particularly in the United States, many companies have announced that their employees won’t be returning to their offices until 2021.

Some of the largest tech companies, such as Twitter, Facebook, Square, and Shopify have even stated the switch to remote work is a permanent option.

Employees of these companies have been working from home for months after a rapid shift away from the traditional work day at large office campuses. Now, they are finding themselves

*This article was first published December 19, 2019 on Allwork.Space. See the original article here.

The book Distributed Teams: The Art & Practice of Working Together While Physically Apart is a practical guide that provides actionable steps on how to effectively manage remote teams.
The book, authored by John O’Duinn, touches on everything from why remote teams are good for business to larger social, economic, and environmental benefits or remote work.

The book provides key strategies that companies can implement to master remote meetings

“What if your team or organization could work well together

COVID-19 Preparedness Plan for Cowork Tahoe

Cowork Tahoe is committed to providing a safe and healthy workplace for all our members and clients. To ensure we have as safe and healthy a workplace as possible, we have developed the following COVID-19 Preparedness Plan in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Our team is all responsible for implementing this plan. Our goal is to mitigate the potential for transmission of COVID-19 in our workplaces and communities, and that requires full cooperation among our members and management. Only through this cooperative effort can we

How the commercial real estate and coworking worlds differ in the words they use for the occupiers of flexible office space.

Often referred to as a total disruption of the office leasing model, the coworking movement is an evolution of the use & leasing of physical space for work. Part of this comes from the coworking world speaking a completely different language than the world of traditional commercial real estate (CRE).

The coworking world & CRE have more in common than not, with both contributing to a modern ecosystem of workplaces. The

This article was recently published to Allwork.Space, an online news publication that delivers a broad range of news, trends, tips and insights from the flexible workspace industry.

https://allwork.space/2019/10/the-future-of-work-is-about-one-thing-flexibility/

If the future of work is about one thing, it’s flexibility.

The growing multitude of discussions around the modern workforce are centered not on the drivers of the movement, but rather their consequences. Yet, these discussions have omitted the most crucial movement that is driving everything: flexibility.

You can’t hope to achieve the fruits of flexibility — community, talent retention, productivity, & wellness — without understanding what makes them

*Note: This article was originally posted to https://www.jellyswitch.com/maslows-hierarchy-of-needs-for-coworking/

Coworking spaces pride themselves on offering a great workspace and communities of peers to work around. Building and maintaining a thriving coworking community requires an understanding of what members need in order to be productive.

What is it that members of coworking spaces need? At the most basic level, a place to get work done. Better than they could find at home, the local coffee shop, or their company headquarters.

Is that all they need? What is it that motivates someone to pay for a

I’ve been seeing a lot of twitter threads, blog posts, and discussions online recently about working remote. Anecdotally at least, it feels like the frequency of these discussions is increasing. That increase may be related to the increase in the number of workers that are able to engage in part or full time remote work. In the US today, 43% of the workforce either is, or can, work remotely.

During many of these discussions there is a digression that makes me cringe. A conversation about remote work turns into a discussion

From an early age, 3rd grade to be exact, I knew that I wanted to be a teacher. I won a school wide reading contest and got to be a teacher-for-a-day at my elementary school. I still have a picture of myself, dressed up to look more like a teacher, at least to my 3rd grade self, diligently hunched over the teacher’s desk grading spelling tests that the rest of my classmates had just taken that day. The principal took me on a tour of the district office, and I

Five years ago, I left Silicon Valley for the mountains. My husband and I reached a point where we no longer could see a healthy future for ourselves or our children if we stayed. As the oft quoted John Muir said, “The mountains are calling, and I must go.” 

So we went.

We moved to South Lake Tahoe in pursuit of an outdoor lifestyle, of a small tight-knit community, of the best environment we could provide for our children. The only question mark was work. Could we still access a labor market

Why the departure from Tahoe Mountain Lab? Well, there are several reasons, but I will focus on those that are most important.

Let me tell you a story about “the Lab” (our main Midtown location will always be known as such): when we opened in South Lake Tahoe, coworking was completely new to the region. Coworking is a very young industry overall, but was still really only a fixture in the world of startups and in major cities in 2014. So, a very reasonable assumption for a new Lab opening