GCUC.ALL is less than 30 days away and what better way to get ready for it than by taking a look at some of the coworking trends of this year Growing Market Though in the early years coworking users were mainly freelancers and startups, this year we’ve seen how the market has expanded and reached new horizons. Coworking spaces across the world are starting to welcome big corporations and businesses as members. According to a CBRE report, this is due… Read More »
As coworking space builders, makers, and instigators we’ve all dealt with difficult members at one time or another. GCUC is the perfect chance to learn how other industry leaders confront the difficulties of managing a coworking space, including the annoying guy who won't stop talking about his cats when people are trying to work. What follows is an article written by emerging coworking thought leader, RyanChatterton, on dealing with difficult members. Ryan believes in providing experience-based and operations-focused insights into… Read More »
As coworking space builders, makers, and instigators we’ve all dealt with difficult members at one time or another. GCUC is the perfect chance to learn how other industry leaders confront the difficulties of managing a coworking space, including the annoying guy who won't stop talking about his cats when people are trying to work. What follows is an article written by emerging coworking thought leader, Ryan Chatterton, on dealing with difficult members. Ryan believes in providing experience-based and operations-focused insights… Read More »
We are super excited to announce a joint partnership with Alliance Business Centers Network. Together, the new 'GCUC Alliance' will deliver an exciting program of events for the flexible workspace community throughout 2016. In the space of little more than two decades, the Alliance Business Centers Network (ABCN) has hosted 34 Strategic Summits and WorldView Forums to bring together the best and brightest minds in the business center and serviced office industry. During that time, coworking has emerged as a… Read More »
We know you’re dying to attend GCUC, which is why we’re giving you the chance to be the lucky winner of a FREE ticket to GCUC USA this upcoming May in Los Angeles. Like everything else we do, the contest is easy, fun, and you won’t want to miss out. Here’s what you need to do: head over to Instagram (follow us @gcucu_usa if you already don’t), post a fun and funky picture that depicts something juicy about coworking, use… Read More »
2016 Predictions: Everybody wins Lines blur. Everybody goes a little more “co” this year. Coworking spaces COnvert some open space to private offices, executive suites hire COmmunity managers, hotels create club level floors designed for COliving, COrporations start serving local COffee and beer. Coworking focuses on sustainability. The entrance of bigger players with deep pockets (WeWork, MakeOffices), drives the independent players to up their game and provide more of what the market is asking for; sometimes trumping what… Read More »
GCUC is breaking into the South American coworking scene something fierce! This will mark the first time a coworking conference of this magnitude will take place in South America and it’s going to be juicy. The line up for GCUC South America is amazing as usual. Marcelo Cora Co Founder and CEO of Urban Station will be making an appearance along with Marcus Dantus. Marcus is a recognized serial entrepreneur and angel investor with almost two decades experience creating, managing,… Read More »
We thought about showing this video at GCUC but thought it might annoy people to pay to see a video they can view online themselves. Let us sum it up for you: Helpfulness is the key and what drives it is people getting together and that time builds social capital. It's that simple. Watch and let us know if you agree... Read More »
We are so excited to announce that we are going back to Cali. We had such a great time there the first time around ( Berkeley) that we decided to have a second go at it . This May GCUC goers will be taking over the Los Angeles area for three days, four if you count camp and tours. We are expecting attendance to be at an all time high this year. GCUC China drew in over 800 forward thinking,… Read More »
MIT Sloan Management Review Magazine: Fall 2015 Research Highlight Gretchen M. Spreitzer, Lyndon E. Garrett, and Peter Bacevice The coworking movement developed to provide community and a collaborative working environment for independent and remote workers. It’s a trend some established companies are learning from. Advances in technology have made it possible for many white-collar knowledge workers to do their jobs from virtually anywhere. But anywhere still means somewhere, and finding the right place is not always easy. Some people try… Read More »
