Marriott Hotels have introduced a new concept for in-hotel workspaces that allow people to share space, making collaboration a little easier. Not unlike co-working, Marriott's Workspace On Demand provides short-term or last-minute workspaces for those looking to switch up their regular office routines. Seeing the new trend of...
Yesterday, Jon Mitchell of ReadWriteWeb wrote about how the Palo Alto City Library is turning vacant rooms into coworking spaces for remote workers and advertising them using LiquidSpace. Can this model boost flagging local economies elsewhere? Some remote workers love coworking because it blends a quiet, isolated workspace with the...
Most brick-and-mortar workspaces don't actively incentivize employees to stay away, but the Plantronics office design enables and encourages telecommuting. The wireless headset manufacturer's Santa Cruz, Calif. headquarters has enough workspaces for between 60 percent and 70 percent of its employees, and there isn't an...
