Monday, April 24, 2017

Co-working spaces are the future of work but that could be a good thing

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They can be noisy but co-working spaces also offer an environment where professionals can wait out the volatility of the job market

The growing phenomenon of co-working spaces – places where individuals can rent a desk of their own while sharing a range of other facilities with their co-tenants – is as indicative of the changing nature of work as almost any metric you care to name.

Although many see the casualisation of the workforce that this growth represents as an inherently bad thing – rightly focusing on the way in which technology is tending to convert full-time work into part-time “gigs” – there may well be a big upside. Co-working is a model that gives workers themselves, the digital nomads of gig economy, more control over their working lives.

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April 24, 2017 at 05:46AM

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from Tim Dunlop

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