The data is at best incomplete in terms of the number of coworking facilities, especially historic data. We did a count of U.S. coworking facilites last summer and there were 252 US facilities based on our defintion. We also did rough counts in 2008 and 2009 and we have a chart showing the growth of US facilities at: http://www.smallbizlabs.com/2010/09/over-250-us-coworking-facilities.html
Our 2010 count was used in a broader global count of coworking facilities by Deskmag, a German site on the new workplace. Their global count was 601 facilities as of early October 2010. We posted on their study and our post includes a link to their count and site. Our post is at: http://genylabs.typepad.com/coworking_labs/2010/10/over-600-hundred-global-coworking-facilities.html I'm not aware of historic data on the number of non-US coworking facilities. We are planning on doing a rough projection of the number of coworking facility members in the coming weeks. It will be based, in part, on the data in the global coworking survey (mentioned in this group). This will be the first data of this kind I'm aware of, so again no historical growth rate data. Steve On Jan 5, 4:30 am, Colo <[email protected]> wrote: > d I am looking for information on the history and > growth of coworking. What year the first and the number per year to > it's current population. > > I am writing a business plan and am looking for any and all > information. > > Many thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en.
