Nice work Stephanie! In addition to your findings, on my own, comparing member-sites-listed and surveys taken, I've determined that the number of coworking spaces has jumped globally, approximately over 30% since this same time last year. Although, not hard science? Wow, that's huge. Yep. It's definitely a movement.
Cheers, Dave B. : : : : : On Apr 10, 11:34 pm, Stephanie Wiegand <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
