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Coworking Megatrend Predictions for 2020

GCUC

by Liz Elam, founder of GCUC, the Global Coworking Unconference Conference. As founder of GCUC, the world’s largest coworking conference series, I travel the world learning about coworking. At the end of each year, I look ahead to where the coworking world is going and share my predictions for the coming year.

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Crucial Steps When You Hire First Employees for Your Remote Business

StartupNation

A remote business is heavily dependent on a fast and reliable Internet connection and cloud-based collaboration software — a faulty Internet connection or malfunctioning software can greatly interrupt workflow and the business’s overall progression. Hiring employees who aren’t a culture fit can also lead to high turnover.

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Where We Go From Here

Andreessen Horowitz

But maybe another vector is the technology is helping us understand how to actually collaborate with it, versus program it. But then there is also this other side, which we’ve seen with ChatGPT, that you can actually collaborate with the model as if it was a companion, a partner, or a co-worker. You talk to a coworker.

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Proptech, AI and the Future of the Workspace Sector: a Q&A with Antony Slumbers

GCUC

The keynote presenter at the upcoming GCUC UK coworking conference in London, Slumbers was kind enough to chat with me about the future of tech as it relates to the workspace industry. We touched on the evolving ethos and aesthetic of coworking, the automation of tasks rather than jobs, and how the way people work is becoming more human.

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What Will Workplaces Look Like After The Pandemic?

Impact Hub

Time will tell which companies will best weather this crisis, but we predict that those organizations whose concepts are closest to this definition will be in the best position to achieve their goals. The challenge ahead is helping new ‘ knowmads’ to learn how to collaborate, think, create, and connect productively.

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Inclusive Capacity-Building in Action

Forward Cities

Some of the connections that I was able to make and learn from that I am going to be bringing back to my town of Kansas City are: The first evening during the opening reception, I met Beth Zimmer of Erie, PA who runs the Innovation Collaborative. We had a great conversation. He runs a black-focused co-working space.

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After a record year for Israeli startups, 16 investors tell us what’s next

TechCrunch

Definitely see changes in evolution of young startups given the behavioral changes caused by COVID. 2) Remote work collaboration — clearly an issue that needs solving, but we have unsurprisingly seen an absurd amount of companies in the space. meter coworking space. How has COVID-19 impacted your investment strategy?

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