In August 2010 I tested for ZEIT ONLINE three coworking spaces included Meeting-Rooms and event locations. This resulted in our MICE section, where we present original meeting locations worldwide. In 2012 I received for a text about Crowdsourcing in Tourism a book price from ZEIT ONLINE.

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Coworking spaces as a driver of innovation in a new world of work

The Internet does the Welt smaller – distances no longer exist. Nevertheless, the trend towards the concentration of work and brain power continues. With good reason, as the examples of successful coworking spaces show.

One reason why I became self-employed a few years ago: I am a committed solo worker, which means I love working alone and undisturbed and at the time I simply did not see this opportunity in a permanent position. I am all the more skeptical about the option of merging temporarily or permanently with other freelancers - so-called office communities, entrepreneurial flat shares or coworking. Leaving aside the moments when the blanket hits you Head falls, which admittedly happens quite seldom in a big city like Berlin. In small towns or rural areas, as I know from my own experience, this may be different.

The future of office work

Then when I was asked last year for ZEIT ONLINE In spite of my skepticism, testing coworking spaces in Berlin and using them to develop a small test series for my blog, I started taking a closer look at cooperative forms of work. Because they are very trendy.

According to a study for which the Companys Johnson Controls Global WorkPlace Solutions (GWS) surveyed 1.700 office workers in seven countries, many workers expect office work to be the Future will take place much more in teams than is the case today. And the typical office workplace is also likely to change. While currently only a fifth of those surveyed frequently Team-Uses workspaces with special technologies for collaboration, in nine years probably 52 percent will already be doing so. Conversely, it decreases Significance from traditional meeting rooms. In addition, the office workers surveyed assume that in 2020 they will have the opportunity for web conferencing, instant messaging and video conferencing clear will use more often.

Cooperative work on the advance

In my research on the topic, however, I found something interesting: Although there are more and more coworking offices in smaller cities, there they are more an exception than a rule. Interestingly, cooperative forms of work are booming, especially in big cities, where residents are otherwise offered enough variety. It is not just boredom that drives coworkers together. There have to be other reasons.

I found the explanation for this in Tim Harford, who states on page 246 of his book “The Logic of Life”: “Everything I need for my knowledge-intensive work, basically a wireless internet connection, a cell phone and a quiet corner.”

The more knowledge-intensive, the more work is concentrated in one room

And yet this freedom and the absence of transport costs, for example for the journey to work, does not mean that the People move away from the big cities – on the contrary: “The death of distances does not make the world more rural, but more central. When transportation costs fall, rational people don't spread to the countryside, but crowd into the big cities..."

And that, according to Harford, also applies to the transport of ideas: “The more knowledge-intensive one Industry is, the more it is concentrated in a small area... Economists have looked at over 4000 economic innovations where exactly in the USA they were developed. They found that more than half came from just three areas.”

How does that look in the example?

Cooperative work is therefore an important driver of innovation. How this works in a specific example is shown by the history of the entrepreneur shared apartment SilicionWelly in Wellington, New Zealand: A good 30 small companies from programmers and web designers to video and computer scrap artists to tattoo artists and sandcastle builders have only 120 here Square meters united to inspire each other and work out crazy ideas.

In this way, the team not only produced successful videos and DVDs that could become export hits "Made from New Zealand", but was also at Barack Obama's Online-Involved in the election campaign. This article in Deskmag also shows numerous other examples, which deals with the question of whether partition walls should be used Office hinder collaborative work.

The first test: Three coworking spaces and MICE locations

The objects, in collaboration with ZEIT ONLINE The relatively well-known Betahaus in Kreuzberg (Prinzessinnenstraße / Am Moritzplatz), the Businessclass.net (BCN) on Paul-Lincke-Ufer (also Kreuzberg) and Yorck52, also in Berlin-Schöneberg, named after the address Yorckstraße 52.

In all three, cooperation and collaborative work are very important, sometimes even as international Concept. In addition, all three locations organize regular events, offer meeting rooms and can also be booked as an event location.

The series to the video

I was accompanied by a video camera. Because the video is only five minutes long and doesn't contain everything I have to say about the individual co-working spaces, I also want to convey further impressions in the form of pictures and I have one on the topic first Articleseries made.

Coworking stands like no other Term for new, creative and, above all, cooperative forms of work. Many coworking spaces that we have visited over the years are also convention centers, host events and have meeting rooms that can be booked entirely or temporarily.

Original MICE locations of the top companies

Since the series was so well received, it became more: the international series about coworking spaces and meeting locations, for which I traveled to the other end of the world, became the MICE section of Best of HR - Berufebilder.de® - in cooperation with the German Travel Association, among others.

Here we report on the original and creative seminar and meeting rooms used by the world's leading companies, such as Yahoo, BMW or Microsoft, as well as exciting ones Teambuilding-Activities and current trends.

The article with which it all began

Here is the link to the original post ZEIT ONLINE, with which everything Begun: http://www.zeit.de/karriere/beruf/2010-08/coworking-test


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