Collective Working Space

A collective working space is a working environment in which supports working professionals in their individual and cooperative work. In collective working spaces, professionals work together regardless of their geographical location. They use the environment to share information and exchange views in order to reach a common understanding. As a result, enabling a more effective and efficient collaboration among different expertise.

UK is one of the European countries who are responsive to the idea of collective working, especially in London. As of 2012, the city led the collective working market not only for large working spaces but also huge variety to suit the different kinds of start-up businesses, enterprise, and freelancers.

Collective working is becoming more common in continental Europe, in Berlin and some major cities. The popularity has also been slowly spreading throughout the globe. This kind of environment is not exclusively for big cities but are also very feasible and suitable for smaller urban areas with many young and creative people, especially universities city where people are just starting out and looking for new opportunities.

From a survey conducted in 2011, the collective workers are usually around their late twenties to their late thirties, of an average of 34 years, both man and woman are open to working in a collective working space. The majority of the people who are working in collective working space are from creative industries or new media, and slightly more than half of the collective workers are freelancers.