Show Notes
What happens when you need a professional place to work for just one or two hours?
In this episode, Jean-Yves Huwart, founder of Coworking Europe, speaks with Oliver Lehmann, Business Developer at ATworld and former General Manager of Mindspace Germany, about a growing use case in the flexible workspace market: workspace by the hour.
Business travellers, remote workers and hybrid employees increasingly need places to work between meetings, before a train or flight, or simply for a few focused hours away from home. ATworld is addressing this demand through a network of nearly 2,500 locations, ranging from coworking spaces and hotels to cafés and airport lounges.
Oliver explains why this model is designed to complement coworking rather than compete with it. By serving shorter stays and more distributed demand, the network can introduce new users to coworking spaces and generate incremental traffic and revenue for operators.
They discuss:
• The growing demand for workspace by the hour • Why hybrid and remote work require more distributed workspace options • How hotels, cafés and coworking spaces can form one flexible network • The opportunity for coworking operators to reach new customers • Why demand is emerging in residential neighbourhoods as well as transport hubs • What coworking can learn from network models in the fitness industry • Why hospitality remains central to the work-from-anywhere experience
ATworld is a partner of Coworking Europe 2026 in Paris.
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