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A little nod to Minority Report, or Black Mirror… When it comes to projecting ourselves into 2050, and discussing what the office of the future might be like, IWG has drawn a little from the science fiction playbook. Even if the workspace specialist is basing this on very concrete technologies, which could…

Wojo celebrated its tenth anniversary in 2025. How would you sum up all these years? Sébastien Dupic - An extraordinary adventure. We started out under the NextDoor brand, created by Bouygues Immobilier in 2015. Then the arrival of Accor as a shareholder in 2018 led us to turn our attention to what we have...

With more than 300 hotels across France, the Best Western network offers a wide choice of places to stay in the regions and Ile-de-France. There's something for business travellers, but also, more generally, for professionals on the move. In 2020, Best Western France launched its own brand of...

Specialist - and world leader - in the field of hybrid work, IWG has scrutinised 40 destinations to draw up its "Tracances" list for 2025, its 3rd "Work from Anywhere" ranking. Climate, Internet connectivity, availability of flexible workspaces, price of digital nomad visas and proximity to beaches: 12 criteria were...

The name WeWork is probably better known to the general public than that of IWG. Yet your group is by far the world leader in hybrid work. How have you built up this sustainable growth over almost 35 years of existence? Mark Dixon - Our company has been built much more cautiously. WeWork is a...

International Workplace Group (IWG) is not far off the 4,000 mark worldwide. In 2024, the world's largest operator of hybrid work solutions added 624 new spaces to its network, for a net growth of 475 sites. The counter at the parent company of Regus and Spaces has...

Following on from the stands at the Parc des Princes and the backstage areas at Roland-Garros stadium, Wojo is adding a logical extension to its series of ephemeral coworking spaces located close to sporting events. While its co-shareholder, the Accor group, is a Premium Partner of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, Wojo will be setting up at Club France,...

Accor embraces hybrid working in its ALL loyalty programme and booking platform. This is a trend that the hotel group had already taken an interest in by becoming a co-shareholder in Wojo - then known as Nextdoor - with Bouygues Immobilier in 2019, and then by providing financial support to Worklib by taking a stake in...

"With a view to covering France's main regional metropolises, the opening of a Newton Offices building in Toulouse was an obvious choice," says Guillaume Pellegrin, founder of Newton Offices, a subsidiary of Rivoli Capital and KKR specialising in flexible offices. After Marseille/Aix-en-Provence, Montpellier, Lille and Lyon, this player in hybrid workplaces is continuing its expansion in...

IWG opened 15 new sites in France last year, with around twenty more to come this year. This growth is also noticeable around the world. Your group seems to be on a very strong growth trajectory. Christophe Burckart - One figure alone illustrates this: IWG has started 2023 with a...

After an abrupt shift to all-teleworking during the recession, the return to the office has not always been smooth sailing either... Many managers are still struggling to find the right balance between the office, the home office and third places. In this context - sometimes chaotic for HR management, but clearly...

Alongside the development of major new coworking spaces, such as Spaces in the To Lyon tower, IWG is adding another string to its bow to strengthen its network in France, and in the Paris region in particular. Owner of the Regus, HQ, Signature and Spaces brands, among others, the world leader in coworking spaces...

How did the worklib project come about, and what are its ambitions? Charles Vestur - Worklib was created in June 2021. Very early on, we received investment from the Accor group, which is a minority shareholder. The Accor group wanted to develop workspaces in its hotels, as is the case...

IWG is firmly established as the world's leading provider of flexible workspaces and is continuing to grow. Its network has been expanded to include 867 sites by 2023 through its Regus, Spaces, HQ and Signature brands. This is almost twice as many as in 2022, when the number of new sites was 'limited' to 462, and is accompanied by an increase in turnover...

What is the situation regarding the return of international trade show business to pre-crisis levels? Corinne Moreau - International trade shows are still 10 to 20% behind 2018. This is not specific to France either. The Germans, who are our main competitors,...

The Spaces coworking brand, part of the IWG group, has just opened a new centre in Montpellier, marking the first foray into the Occitanie region by this network of flexible workspaces with 600 locations worldwide in some sixty countries. Situated opposite Place Pablo Picasso, this coworking centre is helping to boost the economy of the...

This comes as no surprise, as the collapse was expected sooner or later. WeWork filed for bankruptcy at the beginning of the week in the United States. The American coworking giant, backed by the Japanese conglomerate Softbank, saw its value plummet from $47 billion to just $50 million in the space of a year. Weighed down...

What remains of the teleworking experiment that was launched en masse with the health crisis? This is the question to which SAP Concur is trying to provide new answers, by investigating the virtues of remote working for employees, even if it means denouncing certain bad practices... In the wake of bleisure, the use of teleworking opened the door to a...

As a key player in the seminar market, Châteauform' has launched a dedicated offer for corporate offices. How is your Inside offering developing? Anne Griffon - The new version of Châteauform' Inside was launched a year and a half ago. Before that, it was a natural outgrowth of Châteauform''s core business, i.e. running dedicated venues...

As the Covid era draws to a close, how do professionals view the office? Having once been the rule, how is teleworking, which now occupies a variable geometry depending on the organisation, perceived? These are some of the questions addressed by Comet in its new study published on...