Community Economies: What if?
The place where we will work in the future depends to a large extent on our imagination. But also on the changing needs of employees. At this point, what differentiates a business from a coworking space (6 questions to successfully start a coworking space)? Both provide an infrastructure for a community where people work alongside or with each other. There are lunch breaks, kitchenettes, health and safety laws and overtime. Business administration describes "Operation" as a "local, technical and organizational unit for the purpose of producing goods and services, characterized by a spatial context and an organization aimed at regulating the interaction of people and people, people and things, and things and things with regard to set goals."
Clear organization, common goals
The organization of people and things with regard to common goals - these criteria also apply to a coworking space (Why start a coworking space?). For us, it is clear that the boundaries between autonomously organized companies and freelancers who offer various services in community spaces on an independent basis are becoming increasingly blurred. This trend offers great opportunities for all coworking spaces.
We see great potential in members bringing jobs and innovative ideas to communities. That's why, in our experience, coworking spaces are always points of contact for companies with tasks. So the jobs and fees are already there, and so are the right people with talents and skills - but what is often still missing is the organization. The bridge between companies with available tasks and talents with free calendars. The link between teams and resources that allows coworking space members to choose free jobs and get paid appropriately for them.
Great expertise and efficient teams
With the help of software like coapp, this organization can be seamless: Teams and members can create and assign job listings; a search function can be used to find copywriters, developers, or project leads. The coapp feature "Projects" allows several people to work cooperatively on the same job and even inform the community about development steps.
For Community Spaces, there is also the option of creating certain plans for corporate customers who regularly commission members. They decide for themselves whether and how they earn a share of the revenue. There is great potential in the fact that coapp learns with every job and project it assigns, and will be able to curate tasks within the community in the future. With their expertise in project management and their knowledge of human nature, efficient teams can be put together in this way, skills can be distributed in a meaningful way, and projects can be completed in a highly qualified manner.
We define a coworking space as both an opportunity space for visionaries and a vehicle that enables the sharing of ideas, information and free tasks. What if, in the future, workers could choose communities over companies, and still be paid smoothly for freely chosen work?
