Relationships improve work performance.
The lure of working and collaborating in a Coworking space can be similar to the buzz of a start-up environment and quite different from the uninspiring routine of the typical office cubicle. Working in a collaborative space and creating network relationships improve work performance.
The Coworking phenomenon
It’s happening around world and is breeding a new kind of workforce that is spanning the 30-40-something “Generation X”, the 20-30 something “Generation Y” and the latest, the new borns-to-teens known as “Generation Z”. It’s still only the beginning with a growing number of people searching for the term “Coworking”.
The “Coworking Generation” is at the forefront of the future of work and proving that connections through relationships improve work performance.
Coworking is style of work that involves a shared working environment, often an open plan shared office where individuals (usually not employed by the same person) work independently and collaborate with other like minded people, which often leads to improved work performance.
Harvard Business Review report
According to data on a recent Harvard Business Review report, the idea that creating collisions and chance encounters and unplanned interactions between knowledge workers, both inside and outside the organisation the benefits of getting employees to “collide”, shows that relationships improve work performance. If you have ever been to a Coworking space before you may have noticed this first hand. Unlike a typical office, coworkers are generally individual entrepreneurs or freelancers from various backgrounds. When put together in a relaxed common space begin to form connections and relationships that otherwise may not have occurred.
In other words it’s no longer about age or location, it’s about the changing landscape of employment fuelled by new remote working technology and the rise of a new generation of Coworking spaces.
A growing amount of workers are now demanding an alternative to the typical corporate structure where intangible benefits like contributing to a community of like-minded people and being part of a meaningful purpose are the new priorities. This attracts a different kind of personality–one who is more open to the excitement that comes with creating your own work.
So, talk to your employer and ask them how they can facilitate an alternative way for you to work and give Coworking a try.