What is a Coworking Space and How does It Work?

The trend for entrepreneurs and freelancers is no longer working at home, but looking for shared spaces to develop their projects. The reason does not have to do only with the economy, but also with expanding networks and going out into the world. Chile shyly left the office convention as we knew it, and has gradually surrendered to this global trend: close to 160 venues of this type are already registered in our country, with the Metropolitan region condensing half of them.

Coworking is a way of working that allows independent professionals, entrepreneurs and SMEs to share the same workspace, both physical and virtual, to develop their professional projects independently, while promoting joint projects.

The concept was born in San Francisco in 2005 due to changes in the economy. As human beings, we are social; and our economy is increasingly social, with more contacts, with more interactions. Thanks to the evolution of the internet, we are more productive than ever. A single person is capable of carrying out the work that was previously carried out by a company.

Generally, each person is provided with a desk or similar work space, Internet access and other services such as tea or coffee station and bicycle racks, to name a few.

This way of working fosters relationships between professionals from different sectors that can lead to customer-supplier relationships and, generally, a feeling of belonging to a community of people who frequent the coworking space is generated.

Who is coworking for?

People search for coworking in New York, coworking space Yerevan, or coworking space in Paris, for a much more comfortable working environment, network opportunities, etc. If you are looking for flexibility, a professional work environment and reasonable prices, coworking might be a good idea for you. The users of coworking spaces are mostly self-employed and entrepreneurs, knowledge professionals who need a computer and a mobile phone to carry out their professional work and who are looking for something more than a chair, a table and a connection to internet At the end of the day, we already have that at home, and on top of that it is paid for.

Advantages of coworking

• It allows entrepreneurs to save costs and rent a workspace at a cheaper price, essential when starting a business activity
• Flexibility of duration and quotas when signing the contracts, which allows adapting to the contingencies of newly created companies and the self-employed.
• Possibility of establishing synergies with other coworkers, companies and entrepreneurs who are working in the same space
• Flexibility of entry and exit times as if it were your own office, which allows work-life balance.