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    FLEXIBLE SPACES: WHY IT’S COOL TO CO-WORK

    Oct 22, 2019 6 minutes
    BY GLENN BAKER

    In the process of researching business stories I’ve visited a number of Auckland’s shared workspaces, and although each has a unique environment and configuration, I’ve noticed they all share a common vibe of quiet productivity; they ooze style and shout professionalism.

    For business owners and entrepreneurs they offer a whole new level of collaboration.

    While every co-working space is different, one user summed up his experience as “being amongst a community of like-minded, interesting people and businesses, which makes for a much more dynamic environment, and provides strong opportunities for networking and collaboration”.

    Why have shared workspaces proliferated around the country in such a relatively short time? For some answers caught up with Pierre Ferrandon, country manager of IWG, the flexible workspace multinational behind 16 locations in New Zealand, including two Auckland BizDojo locations, as well as the Regus brand and Spaces – a design-led concept which has close to 300 facilities worldwide and is opening its first New Zealand offering

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