The Small Things That Quietly Make Work Easier
Modern work isn’t just shaped by productivity systems and technology. It’s shaped by caring responsibilities, invisible mental load, flexibility and the environments surrounding us every day. Suzanne Murdock reflects on real life capacity, neighbourhood coworking and the small things that quietly make work easier.
Neighbourhood coworking isn’t a perk. It’s infrastructure.
There’s still a persistent assumption that coworking spaces are something optional, a flexible extra, a nicer place to work if home isn’t quite working, or somewhere people go when they don’t need a “real office.” Even when people recognise their value, it tends to be described in practical terms: desks, meeting room
S4. Ep.12 Leading With Heart: The Emotional Realities of Coworking Leadership, with Lucy McInally
What it really takes to run a coworking space without running yourself into the ground. From the outside, running a coworking space can look beautifully simple: open the doors, fill the desks, host a few events and “let community happen”. But for most independent and local operators, the reality is far heavier and far more
Scaling With Heart: Mantle’s Growth to 8 Sites While Staying People-First, with Jo Hart
What does it really take to scale a coworking business without losing the soul of what made it special in the first place? In this episode of Powering Productivity, I’m joined by Jo Hart, who has been at the heart of Mantle Space’s growth from a single serviced-office centre to eight thriving locations across the […
What Makes The Hub Newry Unique – A People First Coworking Space in Newry
As we head into November, we’ve been reflecting on what really makes The Hub Newry unique and how it all began. When we first opened The Hub back in 2012, coworking wasn’t really a thing here in Newry. We just knew there were people like freelancers, start-ups, small teams all trying to build something meaningful, [&hellip
The hybrid & remote workplace features heavily in the property sectors!
Some fantastic flexible workplace conversations & speakers at PropertyWeek‘s recent WorkSpace Conference. Hybrid & remote working featured heavily and I particularly enjoyed the discussions around repurposing offices and exploring the question “Employee experience, how can we work harder to get employees to
7 Top trends from recent ‘future of the workplace’ conferences.
Wow, it’s been hectic lately, many of the workplace conferences, workshops, meetings that were put on hold for the past two years seem to have all been rescheduled into a condensed, two month period. I’m certainly not complaining! Themes and trends have centred around sustainability and employee workplace experienc
Standout takeaways from the Flexible Workspace (FlexSA) Conference 2022
May’s conference was jam packed full of amazing speakers from in and around the world of the flexible workspace! Themes and trends centred around sustainability and wellbeing from various perspectives as well repurposing data, energy, partnerships and making clever use of marketing.
The power of place and belonging – it’s not all about the real estate!
‘Place’ has a very different interpretation for each individual. To some it is all about the people and experience, belonging, memories & nostalgia and to others more about functionality, convenience and location, timeliness & everything in one place / under one roof. Definition – ‘Placemaking’ is a m
