Page 13 - Coworking Around the World

2011 – The first “Coworking Unconference” was located in Austin,

Texas. Angel funding starts for a network of spaces. Large companies

began to explore the coworking idea and opened their own chain of

coworking spaces specializing in corporate coworking.

2012 – Coworking spaces worldwide adds up to more than 2,000

established. Media outlets such as twitter have a huge increase of tweets

(over 50%) with hashtag “coworking” – more than the prior year.

2013 – As many as 100,000 members worked at a coworking space at the

beginning of the year. Mid-year, the 3,000th coworking space is founded.

Most of the coworking spaces run independent of networks. In an Ontario

coworking space, they offered the first health insurance plan.