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While the strike action on 5 December highlighted the need for third-party spaces to offer an alternative to professionals, two new addresses are launching themselves on the French coworking scene. In Paris, Comet opened its doors on 2 December in La Défense. This is already the fourth such...

Coworking specialist Startway is strengthening its Paris catalogue with the inauguration this week of a new address, 23 Villa Marcès, in the 11th arrondissement of Paris. The new Paris Bastille space builds on a partnership forged three years ago with Poste Immo, a property subsidiary of the La Poste group, an alliance designed to give the...

As part of the inauguration of the Crowne Plaza Paris République coworking spaces, the IHG Group hotel chain questioned 2,000 French full-time employees about their expectations in terms of flexible working. It turns out that 70% of the employees surveyed "aspire to a wider choice of flexible working environments"...

It's anything but a passing fad. Coworking is the new way of looking at office property. Almost every week brings a batch of new spaces with their carefully thought-out designs in the heart of the business districts of major cities - WeWork, Spaces, Wojo and Morning Coworking, to name but a few.

Coworking continues to spread its web in France. Shortly after the opening of Spaces in La Défense, Morning Coworking at the top of the Montparnasse Tower and on rue de Courcelles in the 17th arrondissement, and Mama Works in Lille, the market for shared workspaces has seen the arrival of two...

A few weeks after opening its largest coworking site in La Défense, Spaces is strengthening its presence near the Paris business district with a new creative workspace in Boulogne-Billancourt. Situated in the heart of the city, not far from the headquarters of major groups such as Renault, Vallourec, Pierre Fabre and Canal +, the new...

La Poste is also taking the coworking route. Following the example of BNP Paribas and the Remix Coworking network, Bird Office has been chosen to market these spaces online. La Poste's 'Nomade' offering, a service for hiring workspaces and events in its branches...

Business travel by train and coworking clearly go hand in hand... Following the inauguration of a Multiburo space at Saint-Lazare station last October, it's now Regus' turn to strengthen its rail links. On Thursday, the meeting space giant announced the opening of a new site in Lille, within the Gare Saint-Lazare...

Spaces is continuing to expand in the Paris region with the announcement of a seventh coworking space in the heart of the capital. Following on from Spaces Opéra Garnier, Bonne nouvelle, Réaumur and Boulogne Billancourt, all of which have already opened, and the one due to open near Saint Lazare station in July, this specialist in coworking will be setting up in the Halles district...

What do Microsoft, HSBC, Dell, McKinsey, BNP Paribas, Heineken and Chanel all have in common? Apart from the fact that they are large, very large companies, they have all started testing out the latest trend in the world of work: coworking spaces. At the end of 2016, for example, Microsoft announced a partnership with WeWork, an emblematic player in these new...

Openly inspired by the "meal ticket" model, base10 unveiled its Ticket Collaboratif on 24 October, presented as "an innovative pre-payment system offering each user the possibility of reserving a base10 workspace at no cost". Fully financed by the company, at a cost of 3 euros (excl. VAT) per ticket, this new service is designed to make it easier for...

Shocking! A private club in London is now open for business. There are even rumours that this gentlemen's club, where business discussions are traditionally forbidden, may even welcome women! Is there something rotten in the kingdom of members' clubs? Let's just say that this crime of lèse-majesté is...

At a time when coworking spaces are multiplying in Paris and in every business destination, MagicStay is getting in step by directly targeting the business travel community. The accommodation specialist dedicated to business travel and Meetings & Events customers is going to diversify its activities. In fact, MagicStay has begun building a...

The stations in the Paris region where millions of employees commute to work every day will be going coworking. Between now and the end of 2016, SNCF plans to open Work & Station spaces in a number of stations, the list of which will be announced at the end of the summer. Business travellers will be able to...

Formerly known as Silicon Sentier, Numa demonstrates the dynamism of French Tech by hosting a host of start-ups in its workspaces. New York's Brooklyn, London's Shoreditch, Berlin's Kreuzberg, Madrid's Malasana, the east of Paris: all the places where gentrification is taking its course are now...