The Southerntier's Only Coworking Space
UNOVA Coworking is hosting sessions on Thursday, September 12th, with lunch provided, as well as a networking Happy Hour!
You can get your tickets and create your personalized event schedule at https://freelancebusinessweek.com/buffalo/.
If you are a UNOVA member, prepare to see a lot of new faces in the back event space, but don’t miss out of the fun — grab your tickets today!
Coworking as a movement, a business solution, and a supportive global community turns 13 years old today!
It was on August 9th, 2005 that Brad Neuberg opened the first collaborative workspace in San Francisco and dubbed it “coworking.” What started as a tiny community office space in a converted Victorian in San Francisco has grown
to 1.74 million coworkers in 2017, with an expected 5.1 million members by 2022. To put that number in perspective, more people currently cowork than there are people living in all of Costa Rica! That not only means that memberships across the globe are making a statement in and of themselves, but that coworking will most definitely impact the future of work as we know it.
What Brad, a software developer at the time, wanted was “the freedom and independence of working for myself along with the structure and community of working with others.” Coworking allows members to experience the energy of being surrounded by like-minded individuals from different businesses, industries, and trades which benefits the professional worker in a way that a traditional office simply cannot.
Naturally then, on this day every year, coworkers and coworking spaces across the globe take a moment to celebrate their independence as well as their discovery of all the dreams that can come true when you’ve got a solid community in which to create and collaborate. Check out some of the Coworking Day events here!
Brad created this model by which people from all walks of life could work together. But this is not a one-size-fits-all model, of course. Brad invited those who liked the coworking concept to share and remix it, to make it their own. What differentiates coworking spaces from any other office space is a commitment to the five values of coworking: Collaboration, Community, Openness, Entrepreneurship, and Sustainability. With these core principles as a foundation, coworking aims to create a happy, helpful community of workers whose success and knowledge rubs off on those around them.
Happy #InternationalCoworkingDay!!!