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Connection, trust and safety: co-working and COVID-19
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At the heart of any co-working environment is the idea that it can do much more than provide a hotspot and a hot coffee.
The best ones ask: Can we build a great like-minded community?
In the COVID-19 context, the best co-working spaces then ask whether they can solve some of the challenges thrown up by the pandemic to design for safety and trust in a physical environment.
And right now? They’re asking how the design of their spaces helps people to connect – and reconnect. To go a step further and make these connections high value, while supporting wellness and resilience.
“You need a place where you can say 'Oh my gosh! That's so good!' You need that energy.”Industry trailblazer, CEO and Founder of The Great Room Jaelle Ang, calls it the quest for a ‘modern agora’.
“If we need to move at a fast pace, we need to be in a learning environment,” she observes. “And the office needs to allow you to do that.”
Host and Senior Design Strategist Pamela Jouwena joined Jaelle Ang at the Great Room, Raffles for a conversation exploring the evolution of coworking to meaningfully connect the virtual and physical experiences – and how it’s gone beyond simply providing flexibility to being places of resilience that people can trust, where they can create community and focus on holistic wellness. At a time when it’s needed most.
This episode of HassellTalks was produced by Prue Vincent and Slavica Habjanovic.
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