DATE: 04/08/22 11:38
Tokyo’s bustling Shibuya district is home to the serene workspace Digital Garage. According to its architects, the interior is a ’boutique office space for digital nomads’ created by Norwegian architecture studio Snøhetta.
In the interior, a massive Japanese cedar wood furniture piece dominates the space. It unites different areas, offering space for sitting, resting, and working, transforming from bench to table to partition to the bar counter. Designed lighting on the undulating dark ceiling creates the illusion of a starry night.
We’re in the era of “The Great Resignation” around the globe; countless people are quitting their jobs. We have seen a rise in the number of new startups built recently during the pandemic and the number of freelancers. With this sense of entrepreneurship and independence, the demand for coworking space or a coworking centre is rising. A good coworking space essentially offers people a desk, chair, and fast internet connectivity, but the best-shared office space offers much more. Business centres are now getting creative and are evolving innovative architectural styles.
Awfis’ Predictions For The Future Of Coworking
Awfis has several predictions for the future of the workplace, which are guiding its investments in flexible offices. Those tips may be something other companies will key into as well as coworking spaces become progressively more popular.
The majority of those spaces are going to corporations, with about 40% being created for small-to-medium businesses, and 10% for startups and freelance workers. Before the pandemic, Awfis says startups and small-to-medium enterprises made up a much larger portion of the company’s clients, with only 30% of its business going to corporations.