Users of coworking spaces. They are generally entrepreneurs or nomadic workers, and sometimes employees of companies, or even employees of public administrations. They use these places for several reasons such as improving their business opportunities, reducing their business expenses by sharing premises, fighting isolation, or better reconciling their private and professional lives.
Published in Chapter:
Coworking Spaces, New Workplaces
Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay (Université TÉLUQ, Canada) and Arnaud Scaillerez (Université de Moncton, Canada)
Copyright: © 2021
|Pages: 11
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-3473-1.ch183
Abstract
While technologies now allow the emergence of new collaborative working environments, these new organizational methods, new spaces, and new objectives also refer to a set of issues and challenges that are not yet well studied. However, they bring significant results without necessarily being costly or complex to put in place. This is precisely the basis of the originality and purpose of this chapter. After defining coworking, the chapter presents the implementation of coworking spaces, as well as the benefits offered by these places for the benefit of entrepreneurs, businesses, and employees, but also the limits. The challenges related to the emergence of these new collaborative environments as new ways of organizing work are also addressed. They also try to bring a critical look at the reality of the coworking phenomenon.