{"id":13601,"date":"2017-04-20T16:10:42","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T13:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hubgets.com\/blog\/?p=13601"},"modified":"2017-04-20T16:20:58","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T13:20:58","slug":"virtual-coworking-spaces-future-of-freelancing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hubgets.com\/blog\/virtual-coworking-spaces-future-of-freelancing\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtual Coworking Spaces Tomorrow, Today"},"content":{"rendered":"

Coworking is a concept that’s “younger” than the average millennial professional life. Yet it also seems to be hugely popular, trendy even. Projected coworking spaces follow a curve that resembles Moore’s law. Every year, there are twice as many spots to fill. Either extensions or new spaces being open in a novel approach to build “uncorporations”. However, the concept of coworking is as old as early human communities.<\/p>\n

After all, coworking is people doing similar work in shared spaces. Unlikely collaborators pursuing mutually advantageous strategies for development. Sharing a workspace with friends, mentors, and the competition. In a sense, this is remote work?with superpowers. And it is more than a trend.<\/p>\n

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Coworking is?rediscovering a functional unit of modern society. Either recent or old, the concept has its merits and an interesting history. Let’s explore how you can benefit from coworking today.<\/p>\n

Coworking is more than?freelancing<\/h2>\n

Telecommuting may have gotten trendy in the last decade, but it actually started being “a thing”?20 years ago.?With the right head gear and some training, you could work from home. And most of those people only used regular phones. Imagine that! Also, your company would rent smaller offices, among other things. Reduce costs at all levels, from security to equipment and even management.<\/p>\n

Working from home was novel. Society at large regarded it as “not serious work”. Yet, it had its utility. Flexible hours, working from home and family life. For many people, it meant affording to be parents.<\/p>\n

Few would have expected it to become the thing it is today.?Sure, Asimov’s “Naked Sun” describes such a society in which telecommuting is the norm. But that’s an entire planet on which people never leave their homes!<\/p>\n

The past 20 years have seen freelancing become freedom and emancipation. People working from all over the world while travelling. As a self-starter, you could schedule your day and?intermingle work and fun whenever you’d see fit.?Better performing technology (bandwidth, among other things) allowed for more types of work from home.<\/p>\n

From SAT prep tutoring over video chatting to doing the accounting, design, consulting, photography, etc. A rise in tech equated with a rise in freedom. And there are few professions that cannot truly benefit from these innovations.<\/p>\n