I think that once you put 6 zeros after anything, everybody goes crazy. I am glad for the attention, high tide raises all ships and, as Alex points out, Regus has been more co-opted than it has been dominant in relation to coworking. Before you know it, WeWork will also be applying to get on the Wiki and so on, just like Regus. :-). Though not yet, they are still in the own sandbox model and who knows, they may stay there.
A number of sectors are shifting in the face of the ideas around the sharing economy and office space is one of them. And as with the others there are policy issues to be worked out and so on. The dark sides of the sharing economy include of course exploitation and the black market. This is also not different with coworking. As Big Coworking develops I expect to see these kinds of problems addressed faster than they would have without it, so that is helpful. One of the things I would like to see is a real cradle to grave approach for coworking; at this moment most people think of it as a nice place to start until you get to be a real business when you get your own space. And I expect that Big Coworking will change that. On Monday, November 17, 2014 9:16:07 PM UTC+1, Steve King wrote: > > Fascinating - and eye popping - numbers on WeWork in the Forbes article > Inside the Phenomenal Rise of WeWork > <http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2014/11/05/the-rise-of-wework/> > -- Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
