Looking for new articles? Check 2019 State of Coworking Spaces
All publishings of the 2018 Global Coworking Survey:
The State of Coworking Spaces in 2018 (Article), (PDF) Free
Ultimate Coworking Space Data Report (Full report, more than 450 slides with charts) €59
Operators & Staff Members of Coworking Spaces (Article), (PDF) Free
Coworking for Introverts & Extroverts (Article), (PDF) Free
Profitability of Coworking Spaces (2018 Update, Full Report, 91 slides with charts) €29
Opening Coworking Spaces & The First Year Post-Launch (Article), (PDF) Free
Opening Coworking Spaces & The First Year Post-Launch (Full report, 145 slides with charts) €34
Coworking in the U.S. 2018 (PDF, 30MB!) Free
Coworking in Europe 2018 (Article), (PDF) Free
Quick Facts about the UK's Coworking Spaces (Article) Free
Coworking in Deutschland 2018 (German, Article), (PDF) Free
Asian Results of the 2018 Global Coworking Survey (Article), (PDF, Slideshare) Free
The Impact of WeWork on Other Coworking Spaces (Article), (PDF) Free
2018 Coworking Forecast (Article), (PDF) Free
Background: The 2018 Global Coworking Survey ran online from November 8, 2017 to January 30, 2018. 1980 people filled in the questionnaire. The final results are analyzed using IBM SPSS, and are checked using quality standards to remove bots or fake participants. Those respondents are not considered in the analysis nor in the counting of participants.
Participants by groups: coworking spaces (operators or staff members): N=1172, coworking members: N=591, planned/future coworking spaces: N=116. Remaining participants are either former coworking members or people who have never worked in a coworking space.
36% of the respondents came from Europe, 35% from North America, 13% from Asia, 8% from South America, 4% from Africa and 4% from Oceania (mainly Australia).
List of participant countries of the Global Coworking Survey with ≥ 20 participants per country (or ≥ 1% of all survey respondents) in alphabetical order:
Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China (incl. Hong Kong), Egypt, Germany, France, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, Russia, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tunisia, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States
and participant countries with a share of < 20 participants per country (or < 1% of all survey respondents):
Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Austria, Azerbaijan, Banglasdesh, Belarus, Belgium, Bermuda, Bolivia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Botswana, Bulgaria, Burindi, Brunei, Cambodia, Cameroon, Chile, Costa Rica, Croatia, Curacao, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Georgia, Greece, Guatemala, Guernsey, Honduras, Iraq, Israel, Jamaica, Kenya, Kiribati, Kuwait, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Lybia, Madagascar, Malta, Malaysia, Mauritius, Moldova, Montenegro, Morocco, Mongolia, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Norway, Palestine, Panama, Peru, (French) Polynesia, Qatar, Romania, Serbia,Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Slovenia, Slovakia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Tanzania, Thailand, (East) Timor, Ukraine, Venezuela, Vietnam - Unknown: 1,1%
This year's survey is officially supported by the following organizations:
Main Supporters:
WUN Systems - A management tool for coworking spaces
Nexudus Spaces - A management tool for coworking spaces
Essensys - A management tool for coworking spaces
Distribution partners:
Coworker.com - A platform to find and book coworking spaces
Social Workplaces - An event organizer and consulting agency for coworking spaces
Official Supporters:
GCUC Austin, Coworking Croatia Zagreb,
Mutinerie Paris, Kaptár Budapest,
OfficeHub Sydney, ImpactHub Taipei,
NexCore St. Louis, Plexpod Kansas City,
Coworking Out Loud San Francisco,
Talent Garden Milan, KinSpaces NYC,
Blocktime Coworking São Paulo
Deskpass Chicago, Hive Vancouver,
CUASIA Ubud, Cowork Lisboa Lisbon,
Shhared Hamburg, Open Milano Milan,
Seats2Meet Amsterdam, CAAP Ubud,
El Moli Lab València, AreaWorks London,
FutureWard Taipei, Sundesk Valbonne,
GCUC Taiwan Taipei, Habu Bristol,
Senda15 Coworking Vitoria-Gasteiz,
German Coworking Federation Berlin,
Homestead Edmonton.
The Global Coworking Survey is financed through two sources:
Firstly, the main supporters financially support the conduct of the survey. They also allow a basic analysis which is available for free. They do not influence the analysis or the results. They are only shown and linked in the publishing for their support. Thanks to them!
A much more detailed analysis takes much much much more time, but is interesting for a much lower number of people. Sounds like a bad correlation, right? For that reason, the Global Coworking Survey is secondly supported by the people who buy these more elaborated reports with detailed grouped analyses. Please visit coworkingstatistics.com to receive those e-booklets. Crucial main findings of these reports are also published in free articles.
Thanks to everyone who has supported the Global Coworking Survey by buying these report or by taking and distributing the survey. The survey wouldn't be possible without them.
