Coworking vs Office: The Advantages of Renting an Innovative Workspace

Renting an innovative workspace like coworking is increasingly becoming the preferred alternative to office work among professionals

Coworking vs Office: the advantages of renting an innovative workspace

Renting a coworking space is increasingly becoming the preferred alternative to working in an office or from home for professionals and companies

In recent years, even in Italy, innovative workspaces like coworking spaces are being chosen more and more as an alternative to traditional offices. Coworking spaces offer undeniably advantageous work solutions for both freelancers and companies. In fact, they allow for a much more flexible and economically sustainable work style, especially for freelancers or those who have just started their entrepreneurial activity with a startup.

Why choose to work in a coworking space

1. Every euro saved is a euro earned

Renting a space within a coworking space requires a much lower monthly expense compared to a traditional office; this is possible because the idea at the heart of coworking is sharing. A coworking space is a shared workspace where different professionals work, sharing spaces, tools, and technologies. In this way, maintenance costs are significantly reduced, allowing individual workers to save substantially.

2. A solution for everyone

As we said, the benefits offered by coworking spaces are many and itโ€™s no coincidence that we mentioned flexibility. Coworking spaces, as innovative workspaces, are designed to allow everyone to choose, each time, the work setup that best suits them. For example, there may be occasional or periodic needs for a larger space for meetings, like a meeting room, or a private room to meet a client. Similarly, there are workers who prefer to rent a coworking space only from time to time. And there are those who always need to use certain technological assets (such as graphic software or printers), those who never do, and those who only occasionally do. Each of these needs, and many others, can be met by choosing from different solutions and packages tailored ad hoc to meet everyoneโ€™s needs.

3. The keyword is collaboration

Within a coworking space, opportunities to learn, meet, and create new projects multiply. Coworking spaces are multidisciplinary places where professionals with skills that are different and often complementary have the chance to meet, do networking and share skills and experiences. Relationships can start from a simple request for advice or an opinion, creating opportunities for collaboration between different professionals or between professionals and companies. 

Coworking spaces stimulate productivity and creativity

Coworking spaces therefore offer considerable benefits, so much so that according to the latest Global Coworking Survey, the number of people choosing coworking spaces as their workplace instead of an office has reached 3 million. Among these 3 million are, first of all, all the freelancers who prefer to rent a shared workspace rather than work from home, and itโ€™s easy to see why. In a coworking space, there is no monotony or loneliness; instead, you breathe an air full of stimuli and creativity. Secondly, there are also many companies, even well-established ones, that choose this innovative solution to reduce costs and stimulate productivity. According to CNBC (Consumer News and Business Channel), in the past two years there has been a 90% increase in corporate use of these spaces, mentioning companies like Lenovo and the American Cancer Society. Often, the static nature and routine that characterize working in a traditional office are a source of dissatisfaction for workers, who find themselves performing their tasks with a certain unhappiness and emotional flattening, inevitably compromising their work efficiency. Instead, adopting a corporate culture that embraces an innovative work style and encourages interaction, sharing, and creativity allows companies to avoid the damage caused by low productivity among employees; and not only that โ€“ in doing so, they can also attract new clients and workers thanks to a brand reputation that lists them among the innovative companies that care about the well-being of their collaborators. Thus, the global trend is to encourage the use of innovative, flexible, and functional workspaces so that various professionals can come into contact and blend together to create unique collaborative teams. The BeetCommunity coworking space is designed to create an inspirational atmosphere that accompanies workers during their work hours; those who choose BeetCommunity become part of a community of professionals and creatives founded on the value of sharing experiences, ideas, and knowledge. Take a look and join our Facebook group BeetCommunity | Connected Professionals.