Exchange, work flexibly, network and enjoy a communal lunch – many self-employed people use the trend of coworking to carry out joint projects and to be in society. The following article will tell you exactly what coworking means.
What is coworking?
The term coworking can be translated from English as “collaborating“. By definition, most coworkers are self-employed or are small businesses working together in larger offices. In these often very openly furnished office spaces, also known as “coworking spaces”, the respective teams have their desks next to each other. Workplaces are often lined up next to each other.
The self-employed people and companies working there can come from very different technical backgrounds. The aim is to profit from each other, to give tips in the meantime and sometimes even to let new ideas and projects emerge together.
For whom is coworking suitable?
Coworking is particularly suitable for new companies, such as start-ups that do not yet have a permanent place of business and are in the start-up phase. The advantage here is the non-binding nature. Depending on the company’s development, it is very quickly possible to change offices flexibly or to set up your own company building from there.
Individual freelancers also benefit from the open spaces. Many use the possibility, so that they do not have to carry out their work only in the domestic walls and the cover on the head does not fall to them.
Use of coworking spaces
Larger companies and start-up centers often offer coworking spaces. They provide desks, cabinets and working materials on the coworking surfaces. In addition, the coworking space used together usually includes the use of a kitchen and a technical infrastructure such as WiFi, copiers and beamers. In addition to offices, coworkers can also use common areas such as meeting and break rooms for their work.
Behind the coworking spaces are often coworking providers who form networks and communities. They are called “communities“. These can be used by coworkers to exchange ideas in joint events, workshops and workshops.
There are so many coworking spaces in Germany
According to the worldwide real estate company “Savills”, which deals with the use of real estate in large-scale studies, there is currently a great growth of the new working world with the shared offices taking place. There are now over 500 coworking spaces in Germany, with more than 100 located in the start-up city of Berlin.
The cost of shared workplaces
The offers of coworking providers are often very different. They depend on the size and the equipment. Larger companies that offer many places usually charge between 100 and 200 euros a month.
In smaller facilities, which are not sponsored by special sponsors, for example, a desk is sometimes only available starting at 300 euros.
Coworking Spaces have the following advantages
Compared to normal single offices, coworking spaces are cheaper for self-employed people. Larger companies also benefit from coworking spaces. This is because they can make offices available to external employees for temporarily high workloads without having to set up their own company buildings and reserve office space.
The new shape of the divided rooms allows flexible working, as no one is bound to certain times and can work in the way that suits them best. Many coworkers also use the possibility of events, workshops and lectures to network and further their education.
In coworking spaces like-minded people meet. Whether freelancer or founder – the community helps them to exchange ideas about their daily work and to motivate each other. Since many self-employed people from different industries meet here, it is possible to look beyond the end of one’s nose. Creative ideas, new projects or even completely new business models often emerge.
TeamDrive is suitable for coworkers
As you do not need your own infrastructure with TeamDrive, as a coworker you can use TeamDrive for secure storage of your files. It doesn’t matter whether your colleagues and employees are sitting in the same coworking space or doing home office work.
The versatile cloud service from TeamDrive is available to freelancers, self-employed people or start-ups who work in a public co-working space from a monthly amount of 5.66 Euro per user.
