Hello Everyone, I'm Stephanie and I'm an intern at the Sarapis Foundation located in New York City.
This week Devin (my supervisor) asked me to find as many coworking spaces in NYC as I could. DeskMag says there are 12 self-described coworking spaces in NYC but I found about 35 spaces that can easily qualify as coworking spaces. These spaces foster community, support entrepreneurs, freelancers, and even sometimes label themselves as coworking. There are a few shared office spaces that look like they could qualify as well. I will look into each to see whether or not they share the coworking movement's values. I found these spaces by Googling "coworking + nyc", "shared office shared + community", "co-working + nyc", and a few other combinations. Some spaces were over eight pages into the search, so I really had to sift through each search with a fine tooth. I am sure there are more spaces out there, but I think identifying about 40 spaces is a good start. We're going to merge our spreadsheet with that of the CoworkingRegistry and encourage other coworking space members to collect links to the spaces in their area for inclusion in the registry as well. If NYC is an example of a place with about three times the amount of listed spaces, then what does that say about the rest of the world? There are 700 known spaces. If we assume there are three times as many spaces (at least) as there are 'known' spaces, then there are likely well over 2,000 coworking spaces operating around the world. There is little doubt that coworking spaces will continue to open up around the world as networked technologies make these spaces only more valuable, but how can we ensure that these spaces embody the values of coworking and use the term to describe themselves? Coworkers need to reach out to their community and try to encourage people to make themselves known, and the coworking community as a whole needs to continue creating valuable products and services for 'coworking' spaces. -- 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.
