flexible-workspace
(18)
Patrick Mesterton and the office that could change its mind
Patrick Mesterton helped build Epicenter around a simple problem: a growing company can change faster than its lease. His answer brought founders, corporate teams and a fair amount of theatre into the same room.
Vanessa Hendriadi Li and the art of getting out of the way
She founded Rework to bring people together, then helped merge it into GoWork. Building a workspace business across Indonesia taught Vanessa Hendriadi Li a more personal lesson: how to give other people room to lead.
Mark Dixon and the business of making life less awkward
A bicycle, a hot-dog van and a difficult office hunt helped shape the founder of Regus. After nearly four decades leading IWG, Mark Dixon has a new chair and the same interest in what customers actually need.
TownSq: what happens when a town gets a room of its own
A former supermarket in Wrexham became a place to start businesses. TownSq is taking that idea across Britain, selling workspace, practical help and the chance to find your people close to home.
The Collective Hub: BD33 buys a desk. The neighbours are the interesting part.
In Bahrain, The Collective Hub puts startups, creatives and investors within talking distance. Its bet is that a modest monthly workspace bill can buy something harder to arrange: useful company.
The Office Is Now a Variable Cost
Gable began with a peculiar question: what if an office behaved less like a headquarters and more like cloud computing? Pay for what people use, see the demand in real time, and stop pretending every empty desk is a strategy.
The Factory Shut. CEME Built a Business Campus for What Came Next.
On land once used to weather Ford engine blocks, a not-for-profit landlord has turned rent, workshops and a very large car park into an experiment in local economic repair.
Free desks. No loafers. Inside Stratford’s sustainability experiment.
The Stratford Sustainability Hub put spare office space to work for people building greener businesses. Its early history runs from breakfast networking to a surprisingly serious conversation about bidets.
In Baku, Lotfi Zadeh Turns the Office Into a Place to Meet Your Next Collaborator
Lotfi Zadeh Technology Center sells desks, private offices and meeting rooms. Its more interesting proposition is putting the people building Azerbaijan’s technology businesses within talking distance.
Epicenter Stockholm sells the room where business happens
Desks start at SEK 5,900 a month. The bigger proposition is access to founders, corporate teams and people who can open doors - and now Epicenter wants to take that model across an entire district.
Flywheel Coworking bets on the cities founders call home
Across the Carolinas, Flywheel pairs desks and private offices with a network of mentors, business services and local partners. Its wager: entrepreneurs should be able to build a company without leaving their community.
Workie started with 15 seats. The night shift came first.
An Indore office operator built its business around the unglamorous work of keeping other companies running. Its expansion shows why managed offices sell more than a place to put a laptop.
Christophe Garnier Wants to Delete the Empty-Desk Tax
After mobile ads, a bruising e-commerce collapse and a coworking detour, the Upflex co-founder found his durable idea in real estate’s least glamorous fact: paid-for desks sitting empty.
Upflex Is Turning the Office Lease Into a Playlist
The New York startup survived the empty-office years by moving beyond coworking passes. Now it wants to be the control panel for every desk a company owns, leases or borrows.
Jim Carlton and the Work Behind Selling a Place to Work
At Regus, Jim Carlton's brief sits where real estate, hospitality and software meet. The product is not simply an office - it is the ability to choose how much workplace you need, where you need it and for how long.
Regus
Mark Dixon turned a plain observation - real business happening at cafe tables - into Regus, the flexible-office network that now spans thousands of locations and quietly outlasted the startup that was supposed to bury it.
GoWork
GoWork is Indonesia's largest network of premium coworking and flexible office spaces, offering hot desks, dedicated desks, private offices, virtual offices, meeting rooms and event venues across malls and office towers in Jakarta, Tangerang, Bali, Surabaya and Medan. Founded in 2016 as Rework and formed through a 2018 merger with the original GoWork, the company serves freelancers, startups, SMEs and enterprises with a mix of physical space, a booking app and business-support services such as company incorporation and mail handling.
COLABS
COLABS is a flexible workspace and community platform that provides fully serviced offices, coworking space, and back-office support for startups, scaling companies, and enterprise teams. Founded in Pakistan in 2019 by twin brothers Omar and Ali Shah, it operates more than 500,000 square feet across 10+ locations serving over 5,000 members, and in April 2026 opened a 4,000-square-meter flagship campus in the Al-Narjis district of northern Riyadh to anchor its expansion into Saudi Arabia.