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For example, the Global Workplace Analytics Work from Home Experience Survey found that "U.S.    The biggest reason for this is loneliness, which is why we wrote a Harvard Business Review article - Coworking Is Not About Workspace — It’s About Feeling Less Lonely - on this topic. . 

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FEBRUARY 27, 2018

The Laya Center is an interesting example of this trend, which is covered in several recent news articles. The Washington Post’s Female-focused co-working spaces offer career and child-care help still lacking in many traditional workplaces covers the rise of coworking spaces catering to women and/or offering childcare.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2018

  The recent Allwork article Why Coworking Needs a New Definition covers the new name side. Liz Elam, long time coworking space owner and founder of GCUC, responded to this with her article Coworking Does Not Need a New Definition. There's a mini controversy going on around whether or not coworking needs a new name. 

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DECEMBER 4, 2017

  They describe this in their recent article Forces of Change: The Future of Work. In it they list two powerful forces shaping workforces and workplaces: "the growing adoption of artificial intelligence in the workplace and the expansion of the workforce to include both on- and off-balance-sheet talent."

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NOVEMBER 27, 2018

  But as Christensen points out in his 2015 HBR article What is Disruptive Innovation : as incumbents focus on improving their products and services for their most demanding (and usually most profitable) customers, they exceed the needs of some segments and ignore the needs of others.

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OCTOBER 17, 2017

Silicon Republic's Future of Work Week has an interesting set of articles on this topic. It covers pretty much all the standard future of work topics like AI, digital transformation, the changing nature of careers, etc.  How will our working patterns change with the future of work?

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NOVEMBER 16, 2017

"  But as the industry evolves and hybridizes, we're seeing more spaces going beyond just being workplaces and communities. Key quote on from the New York Times article The Wing, a Chic Women's Club, is Going Wide  on what it may evolve into: " a locus of a mediacentric feminist movement, like Ms.

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AUGUST 8, 2017

The "Big 4" accounting and consulting firm Deloitte has released a series of articles, podcasts and videos on the future of work.  It includes an interview with Thomas Friedman, who also authored one of the future work articles. Deloitte’s not the only big company diving into the future of work.

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JANUARY 21, 2016

The Fiscal Times article This Is Why Freelancing Is the Hot Work Trend  covers a Staples survey showing that 12 percent of office workers do freelance work on the side in addition to their regular job.   These findings were part of a broader workplace study conducted by Staples.

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JANUARY 9, 2017

Simply put, the article explains why coworking is working. According to the article, coworking "literally sits at the convergence of these trends. Back Channel's The “Work from Home” Dream Doesn’t Work  provides an excellent overview of the trends and shifts driving the coworking movement.

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AUGUST 13, 2018

Allwork's recent article The Top 5 Most Valuable Companies that are Using Coworking nicely covers this trend. .  And, of course, corporations are increasingly housing employees in coworking spaces. But the coworking's impact on commercial office real estate goes much further.

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JANUARY 23, 2017

Older Americans value the highly flexible nature of gig work and are turning to it to supplement their incomes and/or stay engaged in the workplace. In addition to the article linked to above, click here for the more detailed report on the findings.  This confirms something we see across all our survey work on the gig economy.

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JULY 30, 2013

" Key quote from the article: The classical employment model—vertically integrated companies hiring full-time employees to work eight- to nine-hour shifts—has given way to a new approach: the open talent economy—a collaborative, transparent, technology-enabled, rapid-cycle way of doing business through networks and ecosystems. 

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AUGUST 17, 2015

  Key quote from the article: But the office is not merely a place for productivity; it is also a place for social contact. The water cooler chat became ubiquitous in the workplace because talk, as water, sustains life. The article and academic study help explain why coworking is so successful.

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MAY 20, 2014

The picture above, for example, is from the article Will Baxter and Other Robots Take Your job. And there's little doubt that robots and automation are replacing growing numbers of humans in the workplace.    But there's also a positive side to botsourcing. The has gotten cheaper.

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JANUARY 26, 2016

This means despite being seen as a workplace for millennials, mature ODE workers (aged 55+) are roughly equally represented in the ODE workforce as in the overall workforce.    The research shows older Americans are turning to ODE work for the reasons mentioned in the article: –Flexible work and flexible work schedules. –A

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MARCH 7, 2012

Good article in Strategy and Business on 5 Millennial Myths. Please go to the article for the reasons the author gives for these being myths and what their resaerch shows true picture to be.  Millennials are motivated by perks and high pay.  Millennials want more work–life balance.

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MAY 11, 2012

  The article says pets in the office reduce stress and increase employee loyalty.   As proof, the article cites a study showing that "pets in the workplace reduce stress, absenteeism and turnover and improve morale." Examples from the article include:  - Home Depot Inc.

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JULY 28, 2011

It's no surprise that companies continue to cut workplace benefits.  News article : "Employers have significantly cut many of the benefits they offer to workers over the past five years."   According to a U.S.

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AUGUST 20, 2013

  The article focuses on how Gigwalk - a company that hires people for mobile micro-tasks - uses data and analytics to measure how well jobs are done.   The article is quite negative on the use of labormetrics. These systems can be used to de-humanize work and workplaces. The people who don't, don't.

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JULY 2, 2014

The New York Times article Unblinking Eyes Track Employees does a nice job of presenting both sides of this issue. .  But we also track labormetrics because it's a bit of a counter trend to the shift towards results oriented work (ROWE) , a movement based on providing employees greater freedom and autonomy.

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OCTOBER 4, 2012

 In particular I liked the article "Musings on Knowledge Work and Place" and "Listen UP, 10,000 People Have Told You What They Think of Their Current Workplace" which covers the results of a very large, ambitious and ongoing survey of office workers. I just finished the first issue and was very impressed.

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JANUARY 21, 2014

Key quote from an American Prospect article on the growth of Alt-Labor groups: Twenty years ago, when Rutgers labor professor Janice Fine first set out to count the nonunion groups that were organizing and mobilizing workers, she found just five in the entire country. .

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

He's holding the Social Workplace Conference in October in London to explore the role of social interactions in work.  The Strategy & Business article The Future of Management is Teal argues: Organizations are moving forward along an evolutionary spectrum, toward self-management, wholeness, and a deeper sense of purpose.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

  A recent article in Canada's National Post on the artisan economy reviewed and updated these trends.  Key quote from the article: If you think of artisans as the producers of handcrafted furniture and one-of-a-kind jewellery, raw-milk cheeses and small-batch whiskeys, think again. .

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FEBRUARY 19, 2014

. Taking her place is the contingent faculty: non-tenure track teachers such as part-time adjuncts or graduate instructors, with no job security from one semester to the next, working at a piece rate with few or no benefits across multiple workplaces, and far too often struggling to make ends meet.

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JULY 12, 2012

The chart below from their article shows the growth in the percentage of the contingent workforce as share of total employment at firms with more than 1000 employees.   The shift to contingent work is one of the most powerful and important workplace trends we follow. And this is a conservative estimate.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

We at Smallbizlabs are quite jealous of articles like this.    Here's the opening from the article: "It’s likely that if a person attended graduate school, he will have a hard time translating his strengths into strong workplace performance — especially at startups."

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

 According to another Business News Daily article a survey by staffing agency Randstaff found that more than 70 percent of organizations using contingent workers say the flexibility of the contingent workforce has allowed their business to remain nimble during economic ups and downs. Companies want flexibility too.

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APRIL 19, 2012

Two good articles from Bloomberg Business Week highlighting a huge issue that is not getting enough attention - the lack of men getting college educations. workplace is polarizing between the education haves and have-nots, says David Autor, professor of economics at MIT. if Men Get College Degrees. . if Men Get College Degrees.

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MARCH 31, 2016

Emergent Research Managing Partner Carolyn Ockels and I co-authored this article. But the HBR article expands on a topic we haven't covered in-depth. See the HBR article for details. We've covered PwC's Talent Exchange in the past , so I won't go into detail again here.

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MARCH 20, 2012

Deskmag's  Coworking Powers Weak Tie Business Networks is a guest article authored by us. It covers research we've recently conducted showing that coworking membership enhances weak tie business networks.   "Weak ties" are links among people who are not closely associated.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2012

  Metro Focus has an article on Boffices , which they define as Bar + Office. .   Joining Starbucks and other coffee shops in offering touchdown spaces are a wide variety locations including libraries, hotels, chains like McDonald's and others.   Bars are even becoming touchdown spaces.

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MARCH 21, 2012

The recent Global Coworking Unconference Conference left many with the same impression it did Shareable's Neil Gorenflo - that " coworking's all grow'd up "   GigaOm's Jessica Stillman echoes this view, writing in her article The conversion to coworking 2.0  Only 27% do not plan to expand in 2012.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

  The qualitative analysis looks OK: " a futurist specializing in workplace issues, says pressure on baby boomers wanting to retire will be so great that they will be pulled back into the labor market. .  Overall I'd give them a B to B- on forecast accuracy.    Obviously a big miss.  

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NOVEMBER 18, 2014

The good news for the entire industry is WeWork is showing coworking is rapidly becoming a mainstream workplace alternative for startups, independent workers and small businesses.    The infographic below is from the Forbes article and shows that WeWork and Big Coworking are definitely for real. Coworking'

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MARCH 30, 2017

Again from the Quartz article: What IBM should value most, says John Sullivan, a professor of management at San Francisco State University who specializes in HR strategy, are better ideas. “It Yahoo rather famously did this several years ago and Google and Apple have always tried to limit telecommuting.

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