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Coworking is for anyone and everyone.

Freelancers, founders, makers, and remote workers—coworking is about the people you share the room with. Open communities, owned by everyone, in cities all over the world.

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The five core values

The coworking movement holds community, openness, collaboration, sustainability, and accessibility in common.

Community

People first, always. The faces and the place make the movement.

Openness

Share freely in an open-source spirit. The idea belongs to everyone.

Collaboration

Built together, remixable, and additive. We make things alongside others.

Sustainability

Communities and spaces built to last, and to be handed on.

Accessibility

For anyone and everyone, everywhere—wherever they're starting from.

Resources and community

Join the conversations and programs that connect coworking communities around the world.

Coworking Forum

Discuss coworking with thousands of space organizers and members from around the world.

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LinkedIn group

Join the wider network, post topics for discussion, and meet other coworking people.

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Coworking Visa

Let your members visit participating spaces around the world, free of charge to you and them.

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The coworking movement started in 2005, when Brad Neuberg let anyone take his idea and make it their own.

Brad, a software developer in San Francisco at the time, wanted “the freedom and independence of working for myself along with the structure and community of working with others.” To address that need, he started what he called a coworking space inside a local wellness center and invited anyone to join.

More importantly, he invited those who liked the idea to share and remix it. He didn't hold onto ownership over the word or the concept; as an advocate for open-source thinking, he actively encouraged people to take coworking and run with it.

Before long, people like Tara Hunt and Chris Messina came along and did just that. They established decentralized resources for independent coworking community organizers around the world, including the Coworking Forum, Coworking Wiki, and Coworking Blog. Those resources became the foundation for the movement as we know it today.

Read Brad's account of the first coworking space
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How can I get involved?

Join a local coworking space, add your community to the Coworking Visa, or take the idea and start something new. You don't need anyone's permission, and the global community is here to help.

We are coworking. Welcome to the movement!

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