How we will work tomorrow is taking shape today

In the new 21st century office, the continuing growth of the co-working space is establishing itself as a cost-effective communal answer to high rents and central locations in cities around the world.

Built around high-tech facilities and consigning the outdated ‘9 to 5’ mentality to history, these new work places springing up in urban centres promote themselves as collegial spaces letting users work how they want and when they want.

Flexible places, operating alternatively as offices and social spaces, they cater for anything from a simple half day’s use of a desk complete with laptop and wifi, to a meeting room and social scene populated by everyone from tech entrepreneurs and fashion designers to the local journalist in search of a more creative environment without restrictive closing times.