What’s a coworking and how does it work? We spent over 40 hours picking out the most essential free ebooks and articles and compiled them into one collection to provide you with the best overview.
Now you have everything at a glance!
Whether you are an expert on this topic or a total greenhorn, whether you want to start your own coworking business or find the best place to co-work, these resources will tell you everything you need to know.
Find out about the rise of coworking and the social and economic trends making it possible. Learn how to find and select the perfect space and master the art of adjusting to collaborative environments.
The Most Awesome & Free eBooks
Deskmag’s Coworking Space Trends Survey
The biggest coworking online magazine deskmag.com brings new data about coworking spaces’ situation amids the global pandemic.
Main topics:
- Current situation of coworking businesses (as of December 2021)
- Profitability of coworking spaces in the last 12 months
- Workspace types, trends & availability
The results of the survey are well illustrated in the form of graphs, charts, and metrics data. The illustrations are very clear and easy to understand.
Coworking Manual
The authors are the first Coworking start-up in China. In the manual, they explain how to launch a similar business by sharing their development and experiences and hoping to inspire and encourage more people to do the same.
Making Space For Others
A resource for anyone who wants to create a better workspace.
This report tries to understand how the socio-economic factors that spawned coworking will continue to affect our workspaces for the better – and with this create tools to make it happen.
By Katy Jackson. This report was completed as the final project of her Masters’s Degree at Hyper Island.
Coworking In Vermont: A Starter Guide
Guide was written by Lars Hasselblad Torres with support from the Vermont Center for Emerging Technologies Farm.
A guideline that explains the necessity, strategies for developing Coworking Spaces, and how to apply these strategies. It includes a checklist and project projections with examples that will help you to plan a Coworking business.
Igniting An Idea: The Creative Spark
Wisconsin-oriented study concerning Coworking Spaces.
Main points of interest include profiles of coworkers, targeted businesses & individuals, market demand, or profiles of Coworking Spaces.
The Co-working Space Concept
This document illustrates the key concept of Coworking Spaces and explains how they are created to match specific demands.
It points out the main benefits of Coworking Spaces and identifies the basic services they offer.
The Workshop: Coworking
A global report about how Coworking Spaces could change the working lives of millions. Brief growth analysis of the global coworking economy and its future.
The key concept of Coworking Spaces, Service & Operators are well described in this workshop.
The Coworking Revolution
DWP researches on coworking spaces, their changes over time, predictions for the future and current state of coworkings under the Covid-19 global pandemic.
How Freelancers Experience their Working Conditions as Users of Coworking Spaces
Malmö University’s Laurie Haise’s master’s thesis investigates how freelancers experience job precarity and asymmetrical power relations within the media production industry.
She also addresses how coworking spaces provide a workspace with the possibilities of knowledge sharing, networking, and community building, as a framework in order to challenge their precarious working conditions.
Coworking Office Building Guide – Madrid
Madrid-based Coworking office infrastructure guidelines. Well-defined dynamics, strategy, and map analysis will help you to develop your own coworking space.
Useful links
Why cowork
Pioneering A New Twist On Coworking Models forbes.com
At the Next Stop, an Office and Co-Workers nytimes.com
The 9 joys of coworking freelancersunion.org
5 Reasons to Close The Door on Private Offices huffingtonpost.ca
How Coworking Spaces Can Grow Your Company thenextweb.com
Why Cowork? For Your Mental Health tech.co
Coworking is Awesome, Let’s Keep It That Way shareable.net
10 Questions To Ask Before Choosing A CoworkingSpace fastcompany.com
Coworking spaces
The 100 Best Coworking Spaces In Europe ridestore.com
Guidelines For Coworking Spaces In 2021 forbes.com
23 of the Best Coworking Spaces in the U.S. inc.com
Five Reasons More Companies Are Using Co-Working in Addition to Their Traditional Office inc.com
7 Top CoWorking Spaces In New York inc.com
Last but not least…
if you’re looking for a new space to co-work, come visit us at Coworking in the Sun in beautiful Tenerife!
