Coworking spaces gained their ground with nearly 400 spaces in France populated by telecommuters and independent workers. There is no more need to prove the success of these spaces in the working world. Due to this phenomenon, corpoworking is seducing companies who see it as an innovative way of experiencing flexibility within own premises. Definition, issues, factors of success for the company: decryption of the corpoworking trend.
Corpoworking: corporate coworking
Combination of corporate and coworking, corporworking can be defined as a coworking space in businesses. It is therefore a workplace inside or outside the premises of a company. Available to employees who can come freely to carry out their current work tasks – might be also open to external visitors – corpoworking leads a real community grounded on the notion of sharing and exchange.
If there are some differences and brakes to its development (such as experimentation space, information protection, submission to company’s standards – schedules, processes, hierarchy…), similarities with the “classic” coworking are evident: flexibility and community animation are at the heart of the corpoworking process. This is merely coworking into your business!
Why open a corpoworking space in your company
Often initiated to try new working conditions, corpoworking space is an unprecedented experience of flexibility, modeled on the success of coworking spaces.
Meet the needs of nomadism and mobility
Whether it is outside or in the company space, corpoworking meets the new needs of mobile employees. Place for fortuitous or spontaneous encounters, people come to work freely. Beyond that it also allows to escape traditional offices lack of concentration, common complaint among workers. Here, employees can take a breath from his daily life, and with this step back from his work he gains efficiency.
Positive valuation of the employer-brand
Since the global phenomenon, workers expect their companies to set up a collaborative, exchange and sharing system. It is always rewarding for employees to know that their company revise its HR codes and the follow latest trends. Corpoworking promotes employer’s brand image who has understood the issues of mobility at work.
See also: Mobility at work, the new challenge for companies
An unprecedented development for employees
The corpoworking space, just like coworking, improves its layout. Comfort and well-being reign with modular spaces and quality furnishings. Connectivity and network access as well as company data are major assets once compared to third parties such as business centers. Finally, tools adapted to nomadism will allow a reliable and simplified use of space.
See also: The features of our Cowork.io tool
Employe experience enhanced
Like coworking, corpoworking spaces are made up from a real employees’ community. Working alone or in a project, workers are closely followed and their needs attended. The spur of ideas will also come from the animation set up in the space, being targeted events, meetings, debates, after-works… in short everything that will put forward project owners and their initiatives.
