According to Irish poet and playwright, Oscar Wilde – “What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise”. While Wilde’s words relate to individual lives but they aren’t far from professional living too. In the past decade or so, businesses and or freelancers have shifted focus from buying or renting out office space to coworking space. After initial hurdles, today the concept of coworking is gaining pace. It all began with coffee shop client meetings or official gatherings but coffee shops soon began charging for occupying the cafe beyond a certain amount of time. This, in turn, […]

An employee’s sense of fulfillment in the workplace is deeply impacted by the office environment, the community of professionals, and his/her ability to be productive. For businesses or startups operating in a coworking space can meet the challenge of choosing spaces that are conducive to productive work.

Shared offices or co-working spaces are trending across the world. In India, too, entrepreneurs are drawn to the cost-saving benefits of a shared rather than private office. It also allows tremendous flexibility: work when you want, where you want, without any overheads and without the hassles of running an office. And there’s a very attractive hidden benefit as well. Sharing an office with others has the potential of leading to valuable future business relations. The open environment is conducive to the ebb and flow of a wide and varied canvas of professionals during a working day. Start-ups, creative professionals, lawyers, […]

Co-working spaces are trending. They are just the thing people working on their own are looking for because they “bring the social back into the workplace”. You rent a desktop in an open space for a flexible period. The space is shared by people coming from different backgrounds: entrepreneurs, freelancers, artists, designers, consultants. The environment is friendly and you have the opportunity to work alongside like-minded people. Co-working spaces foster collaboration and sharing of knowledge. They provide the human interaction people working on their own miss. The energy around the table is palpable. Creative juices flow. Work is more satisfying […]

Co-working or shared office spaces have become one of the hottest trends in workspaces. This is an option where an office rental, workstation or something similar is occupied by people working alone or in very small teams. Very often there is just one large table at which people work with no assigned seating. Set your laptop down on the table and just get down to business. Co-working spaces operate as temporary work hubs that anyone can rent by the hour, day or month. They have evolved and morphed into new types of workplaces that attract people who love the freedom […]