2017 was the best year for the global coworking community by far. It continued to grow at a double-digit rate and reached the 1 million coworkers milestone. The coworking shift is real and is bigger than ever. More and more Freelancers, Startups, Small and Medium companies and Enterprise teams are joining the Coworking and Office-as-a-Service movement.
2017 was the best year for OfficeR&D too. We released 20+ major and 100+ minor new versions of the platform, expanded our global footprint by reaching more than 140 customers, having 20 000+ coworking members, 10 000 active users in the portal in 30+ countries and raised a $1M of a seed round funding. As a result, our team grew from 6 people to 13 across London, Sofia, and New Zealand to support our growing coworking community.
In order to provide a great software solution, you have to start with a great team. You need people that actually care about others and care about the industry. People with high emotional intelligence who are willing to sacrifice their comfort for their customers. Something that is key and is the ethos of the Coworking hospitality – members and customers comfort comes first.
In 2017, 7 amazing people joined our team to support our awesome growing coworking community. Thank you, Tina, Deyan, Bancho, Alex, Yosif, Chil, and Milko. You are the best!
In 2017, we also visited 25+ coworking spaces, attended 3 coworking conferences and met in person 100+ community managers.
We changed our slogan to “Coworking Management platform that makes members happy”. We did it because we believe that ‘success is making those who believed in you look brilliant’. As your partner, we want to help you grow and look more ‘digitally’ awesome.
Our customers, partners, and community have believed in OfficeR&D since day one; your tremendous growth this past year is a testament to how far we, as a company and as a coworking movement, have come.
Having great team and vision plus an amazing industry were all key factors in driving our game-changing moment of 2017 in terms of Product.
Some of the stories we started and gave life this year are:
We’re looking forward to 2018 and we are more committed than ever. There’s so much more to do. With your help, we will make coworking a more Social, more Mobile, more User-friendly experience for the members, more Automated and Integrated for the managers and more Data-driven for the owners.
Stay tuned for our official 2018 Roadmap.
In this post, you’ll find a list of useful blog posts, panel discussions, and other resources, that we believe might be of value to you in these challenging times. We’ll also update this on a regular basis so it’s relevant enough.
We’re thrilled to announce the release of our brand new and improved Mobile and Web Member Apps. We realize that in such challenging times, it has become more important than ever for flexible workspaces to be efficient and have a reliable channel of communication with members. And we hope that the new OfficeRnD apps will help you meet these needs and will also help you emerge stronger from the crisis.
The measures you’ll take really depend on the size of your workspace, team, and resources. However, in the post, you’ll find several tips that are applicable in any case. We hope they will help you handle the situation to some extent and keep your workspace business, team and members safe.
Stay up to date with coworking insights, feature highlights, company news and upcoming webinars and eBooks.
