Reopening and The Strength of a Coworking Community

As California prepares to lift capacity and distancing restrictions for most businesses on June 15th, our flexible office spaces are excited to return to usual operations.  Member communities are looking for ways to celebrate reopening, while staying true to workplace health and safety policies.  Coworking bounces forward with fashion NextSpace Coworking Santa Cruz is [...]

Leadership For Remote Workers: 4 Tips For Keeping Your Team On Track

Running a business with maximum efficiency is rather like playing a complex strategy game. In other words, it’s significantly easier to handle when all your pieces are directly in front of you. Trying to play chess with your pieces spread across various boards throughout the country (or even the world) is awkward, to say [...]

Impact of Remote Work on Work-Life Balance and Job Satisfaction

If there’s one silver lining that people talk about remote working, is work-life balance. But, does working from home actually help you attain the work-life balance that you need for your life?  Yes, you are exposed to several mediums to get your work done from home without involving the constant need to step out [...]

How To Create A Remote Home Office You Can Take With You

One of the best things about working remotely is flexibility — it allows you to work almost anywhere. And while many remote workers will spend most of their time working from home (WFH), many of us now see the need to balance WFH with other workspace solutions such as a flexible office or coworking [...]

Don’t Let Professional Development Flatline as You WFH

Your work from home (WFH) commute may currently consist of walking from the bedroom to the coffee maker to the kitchen table, but there’s no reason to let your professional development flatline.  As the world rallies around remote work and WFH trends, the opportunities to network, teach, learn and grow your skill set have [...]

Coworking in Berkeley Levels Up with a NextSpace Refresh

NextSpace Coworking Berkeley powered by Pacific Workplaces is looking fine with a new shine.  The NextSpace team and leadership recently finished a refresh that added new amenities and features, updated existing features, and upped the workspace wellness factor right in downtown Berkeley. At the heart of the refresh was a vision to bring a [...]

Finding the Right Private Office Space Post-COVID: 4 Tips for Work-From-Home Pros

COVID-19 has undeniably accelerated the work-from-home (WFH) trend. Companies around the world have successfully shifted to a remote model—some of them permanently.  But WFH has its limitations. Anyone who has struggled with isolation, loneliness, lack of productivity, or just plain boredom walking from the desk to the kitchen coffee pot and back again all [...]

How To Find The Right Meeting Room Space for Your Work-From-Home Life

Zoom is not the answer for everything.  The video conferencing tool has done a lot of the heavy lifting during Covid, but eventually you’ll need a space to meet colleagues or clients in-person. You may be at that point now, or simply need to get out of your home for a boost of productivity. [...]

How Pacific Workplaces Provides Relief for Work-From-Home: Work-Near-Home Makes Work-From-Home More Effective

Work-From-Home (WFH), now a necessity for many corporate workers, has been an upgrade to the quality of life for some, but not for everyone or not all of the time. On the positive side, no more exhausting commute, more flexibility in work hours, better control of the work-life balance. On the other hand, the [...]

Flex, In A State of Flux: Covid-19 Might Not be the Death of Coworking Spaces. Long-term Trends Could Bring a Brighter Tomorrow

Written by Matthew Niksa  – Commercial real estate reporter, Silicon Valley Business Journal Photo credit: Tomas Ovalle The Covid-19 pandemic is expected to lead to a contraction of the global coworking space market of nearly 13 percent since last year. With that kind of pullback, you might expect a pessimistic attitude among the companies that [...]