coworking space

WeWork is augmenting its presence in Singapore with its new location at 380 Jalan Besar, the US-based co-working space provider announced in a press statement on Tuesday. The new space, which opened its doors on March 1, is housed in ARC 380, a mixed-purpose commercial development, and marks the firm's first location with additional amenities such as a sky terrace with a swimming pool, a gym and an open...

Co-working giant WeWork has announced the official launch of three new offices in Suntec City Tower 5, City House and 8 Cross Street in Singapore, bringing its footprint here to over nine locations with 4,000 members. This comes amid the US company's aggressive expansion in South-east Asia. New locations are slated to open in Bangkok, Ho Chi Minh City, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur and Manila by the end of the...

Campfire Collaborative Spaces from Hong Kong is muscling in on Singapore's shared office space, with the startup announcing it has leased all 16 floors at 139 Cecil Street. The site is currently an 11-storey building undergoing major renovation to add five more floors, which Campfire said includes a roof terrace with an "industry-first sky pool, rooftop bar, outdoor dining area and cabanas" for...

Lendlease is planning its own flexible workplace brand within its upcoming Paya Lebar Quarter mixed-use development, according to The Business Times. That would make the Australian firm the latest among developers to run their own co-working platforms here amid an increasingly crowded landscape. "To cater to the demand for high quality flexible workspace from corporate occupiers, we are exploring a...

When job search engine Indeed opened a product development centre in Singapore at the start of this year with just one staff member, it decided to secure co-working space for up to 15 people. In June, it upgraded to a office suite for up to 50 people, and by November, it is looking to move to an even bigger dedicated office space for 150 staff — all within the co-working space at WeWork’s Beach...

Last September, WeWork made a show of trying to poach customers from rival co-working companies during the slower months of late summer and early autumn. Employees of the co-working giant cold-called competitors' tenants, set up games and couches outside of other shared-office spaces and offered up to a year's free rent if they switched over. This year, WeWork is enlisting another party in the...

Safra Mount Faber is to undergo a facelift by mid-2019, complete with new facilities such as a dedicated co-working space. The four-storey lifestyle club in Telok Blangah Way will begin enhancement works in late July. Several entertainment facilities and food outlets at the club will be closed from July 9 in preparation for the enhancement works. The new club will feature an industrial chic look,...

Property developers are leasing more space to co-working space operators, even as demand rises from businesses in the new economy looking for flexible work areas. Currently, there are 53 co-working space locations in Singapore, almost one-third of which are in the Central Business District (CBD) – up from about one-fifth of the overall 40 co-working offices a year ago, according to real estate company...

Real estate developers and financial investors are capitalising on fast-rising demand for leasing of "co-working" spaces in China, as Beijing encourages startups and small businesses in a bid to offset slowing growth at traditional industries. Developers, including China Vanke, Soho China and Singapore's CapitaLand, are renting out property space that hordes of self-employed persons or small-sized...

THE Work Project - a Hong Kong-based co-working space operator - is the official co-working space partner of Downtown Gallery in OUE Downtown, OUE's upcoming mall located at 6 Shenton Way, The Business Times has learnt. It will fill the entire fourth floor of Downtown Gallery - that is, 20,000 square feet of space - and is set to deliver a new concept here of workspaces designed for the future...