Tag: Independence

It was on August 9^th, 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!