Have you listed about the latest publication related to coworking? Not yet? Come with us, and we will let you know!
In January arrives at bookstores the book “The Flexible Workplace, Coworking and Other Modern Workplace Transformation”, edit by Marko Orel (Prague University of Economics and Business), Ondřej Dvouletý (University of Economics Prague), and Vanessa Ratten (La Trobe University). The researcher and creator of the Coffee and Work Project, Gislene Feiten Haubrich, participate in the publication with the chapter: “Mediation matters: The Role of Staff in Coworking Constitution”.
The work has been published by Springer Nature Switzerland AG, gathering thirteen chapters, divided into four parts. The first part analyses coworking environments through the prism of tailored, flexible workspace platforms. The following section is dedicated to different types of coworking environments. The third part of the book seeks to understand collaborative and joint activities that commonly occur in coworking spaces. The final part of the book seeks to analyse the usage of coworking spaces on the go and the popularisation of digital nomadism.
In her chapter, Gislene argues coworking as an organisational arrangement constituted communicatively and nurtured by the activity of work, contributing to the discussion of staff supportiveness in coworking. The emphasis is to the mediation as a mechanism to promote interactivity among people cohabitating in this kind of flexible workplace.
The qualitative approach is sustained on field research at Nós Working in Porto Alegre (Brazil) and La Plage Digitale in Strasbourg (France). Amid the results, it is identified that the staff’s activity is overcharged with structural issues, and the challenge is related to staff’s role in the cultural translation of coworking values in the daily decision-making life.
If you’re interested, you can buy the book here or just the chapter here.