This Week In Coworking

essensys co-founder Bryn Sadler joins Hector Kolonas on Behind the News to talk about what per-user Wi-Fi logins mean for coworking operators. They tighten security in the way larger tenants ask about, and they turn your Wi-Fi into occupancy data that counts people, not devices. See full show notes at https://twic.co/wificredsBryn explains why operators outgrow the router their internet provider s...

Week 44 of 2026: AI agents for coworking operators, a hidden security risk in plain text files, a Brooklyn space at 100% occupancy, and a debate over whether "grown-up" coworking still needs community. Hector Kolonas is joined by first-time guest co-host Igor Dzhebyan-Benjamin, CEO and co-founder of Spacebring, a week after Spacebring Intelligence's launch. Igor walks through its three parts: an a...

If New Yorkers are back in the office, what is flex for? David Harrell is an office leasing broker at Colliers. He started out as a prosecutor and later helped launch WeWork's in-house tenant rep brokerage. He joins Hector Kolonas at his office overlooking Bryant Park to talk about Manhattan's flex market: why flex is a permanent part of it, why a 25-desk team room request below 34th Street turned...

More links and show notes at https://twic.co/newceoIvan Guberkov joined OfficeRnD's early team, helped take it from zero to more than $15M ARR, and went on to lead sales, the hybrid work launch and product before stepping into the CEO role. He sits down with Hector Kolonas to talk about what the company learned from two years of leadership changes, why coworking is getting 80% of its focus again,...

Hector Kolonas and William Edmundson recap key items from the This Week in Coworking Week 42 (2026) newsletter Follow along with Week 42's (2026) Coworking News: https://thisweekincoworking.com/week-42-2026/ They share iPostal1’s “28-minute” operator checklist to grow virtual address revenue, including updating listing photos and adding iWorkspaceMail as a white-label digital mailbox revenue strea...

Host Hector Kolonas is joined by co-host Sam Shea (ex-Workbar, ex-WeWork, ex-LiquidSpace; now at Uniti; and founder of FLOC—Future Leaders of Coworking) to discuss the 2026 Coworking Tenure Survey and key Week 41 stories. Read the Week 41 newsletter at https://thisweekincoworking.com/week-41-2026/ Get the free 2026 Coworking Tenure report at https://twic.co/tenure/results They review survey findin...

Hector Kolonas hosts the Week 40 (2026) recap of This Week In Coworking with guest co-host Cat Johnson, discussing upcoming events including GCUC UK in London, a Coworking Creators meetup, the Coworking Creator Summit, and October and November convos, plus a surprise trivia game at GCUC UK powered by This Week In Coworking and hosted by FLOC. They highlight a Cobalt resource on pricing psychology...

In this episode of the Week 39 recap, host Hector Kolonas is joined by Ivailo Ivanov, VP of Product at OfficeRnD, to discuss three critical topics from this weeks newsletter for the coworking industry: 1. A "catastrophic booking failure" case study: Analyzing how breakdowns in access, staffing, SOPs, and Wi-Fi can ruin the member experience despite a successful booking.2. Branding over overcrowdin...

Host Hector Kolonas recaps week 37 of 2026 with guest co-host Perla Caballero from Alliance Virtual Offices calling in from Monterrey after attending the GWA conference, where she led roundtables on excellence management and member loyalty, drawing on experience from WeWork and Airbnb. Follow along with the web-version of the free newsletter at https://thisweekincoworking.com/week-37-2026/ Perla s...

In the Week 36 (2026) recap of the This Weekend Coworking podcast, host Hector Kolonas and guest co-host Mark Furness discuss Mark’s reacquisition and take-private of essensys, his renewed focus on building faster with AI, and what “AI at the core” means: agentic capabilities across essensys Platform (network/WiFi), elumo (meeting room access and monetization), and Operate (lead-to-cash/ops system...

In this Week 35 recap of This Week in Coworking, Hector Kolonas is joined by Ken Koh from Nexudus to unpack the latest shifts shaping coworking, flex, and community-led workspaces. See this week's full summary at https://thisweekincoworking.com/week-35-2026/ They discuss Nexudus’ new Members Portal and Passport app updates, embedded storefronts, AI-powered member experiences, why coworking website...

In this recorded keynote-style discussion, Hector Kolonas (Syncaroo co-founder) is quizzed by Jessie Glew (CEO at WOTSO) and Andrew Rothstadt (CEO at Clarence) on what coworking operators should optimize for beyond software; shifting focus from occupancy to utilization, revenue, reduced churn, and staff efficiency. Hector elaborates on why “not all revenue is good revenue,” sharing an example of p...

Hector Kolonas and Eyal Lasker recap traveling to Sydney for the Flexible Workspace Association’s annual conference, including long flights, jet lag strategies, and speaking engagements. Eyal summarizes his panel on the industry’s need to standardize metrics and publicly share benchmarks so landlords, lenders, and banks can understand flex performance and support scaling goals. They compare global...

Hector Kolonas hosts the Week 33, 2026 recap with returning guest co-host Antonette Benting (Workshop 17, Cape Town), who is helping bring GCUC Africa to Cape Town. They outline the conference structure across three operators (AfricaWorks welcome event, Workshop17 main conference day, and Neighbourgood evening), plus programming including local government on economic growth and foreign investment,...

Host Hector Kolonas recaps week 32 of 2026 with co-host Sagar Morabia from Yardi Kube, discussing industry shifts in distribution, product (managed offices/landlord partnerships), and AI-driven operations. They introduce Yardi Kube’s customer-facing AI Sales Agent that handles after-hours inquiries and can guide prospects through booking workflows, plus Yardi’s Virtuoso AI strategy around agents,...

Chris Baszto Joins Vast Coworking Group as CMO | Behind the News (This Week in Coworking)Host Hector Kolonas interviews Chris Baszto on a special “Behind the News” episode announcing Baszto’s new role as CMO of Vast Coworking Group. Three weeks into the job, Baszto shares first impressions, notes Vast also hired a new CFO, and recounts his path into coworking—from being a second-generation ad prof...

Host Hector Kolonas and guest co-host Will Stanford (Head of Coworking at Yardi Kube) recap This Week in Coworking Week 31 2026. Follow along at https://thisweekincoworking.com/week-31-2026/ They note positive industry momentum in margins and location growth and revisit Airbnb’s experiment offering day passes and meeting rooms, discussing its advantage in capturing traveler intent, potential risks...

Host Hector Kolonas welcomes Blaize Randall to the This Week In Coworking podcast to discuss her transition from operator to owner with the launch of Sonder Coworking and Events, focused on management service agreements and events, starting August 1 in Kingston, Ontario with plans to expand across Canada. They highlight the support Blaize found through the Future Leaders of Coworking (FLOC) networ...

Coworking isn't discovering dynamic pricing... it's beginning to adopt yield management. In this edition of Undercurrents, we dig into how coworking operators are using dynamic pricing (and yield management principles borrowed from airlines and hotels) to protect premium inventory, smooth demand across quiet periods, and influence member behavior; not just to charge more. Want the full research, i...

Hector Kolonas hosts the Week 29 (2026) recap of This Week In Coworking with guest co-host Adam Morgan, founder of Bureau, discussing major industry stories from the newsletter. Follow along at https://thisweekincoworking.com/week-29-2026/ They examine Airbnb’s rollout of coworking day passes in London and debate whether it’s a net positive distribution channel or a potential disruptor, including...

Host Hector Kolonas and guest co-host James Shannon (essensys) recap a technical, newsletter-driven episode sponsored by essensys’ Elumo, a product that combines booking and access to help flex operators capture more meeting-room revenue with a tap-to-book Apple Wallet experience and simplified per-room pricing. They celebrate Hoxton Mix’s 16 years in business and its scale to 100,000 virtual offi...

Host Hector Kolonas interviews Jon Thompson, a Cincinnati-based marketing and social media professional, about his new vertical microdrama miniseries, “Coworking.” Thompson shares his career path (USTA/US Open, Snapchat, Mars/M&M’s, Kroger, Ogilvy, and Web3/crypto) and how his coworking experience began at a WeWork in Soho while building an in-house content studio for M&M’s. He explains wh...

In this week's recap, Hector is joined by William Edmondson from iPostal1 Workspace to break down the biggest stories in coworking, flex work, and the broader workspace industry. From the rise of the personality economy to major market moves reshaping the global coworking landscape — there's a lot to unpack. Plus, we have a brand-new global survey on coworking tenure that we need YOUR input on.📌...

Hector Kolonas is joined by Momchil Blaskov from OfficeRnD to dig into this week's biggest coworking stories.(1:43) OfficeRnD's new AI Sales Agent — what it does, how fast operators can go live, where it lives today, and what a full agent suite could look like by Q3.(10:13) Childcare as a workspace amenity — the real cognitive load on working parents and why most spaces that try full childcare eve...