Regus Connect

[Suky Stroud]

Hello all! I've been following the Coworking group closely over the past few months, while working on a new project at Regus. It's a new take on coworking, to connect the startups and SMEs, with freelancers, and also with young interns for the very first time under one roof. We'll be launching 10 pilot sites in the UK this Autumn, and our website went live last week. 

Would love to hear your thoughts on the website, and the concept in general? You can find it at www.regusconnect.com

[Fay Easton]

Hi Suky

Are you still involved with the project at Regus Connect - excellent website - and if you’ll pardon me saying - for the first time ever - Regus ‘speaking the language’ of co workers / freelancers / solo entrepreneurs…

Love to meet up to discuss collaborative working across co working spaces…

Fay

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[Suky Stroud]

Hi Fay

Thanks for saying so! I’d love to discuss it further... You can contact me at susanna...@regus.com.

(sorry if I've posted this twice, still getting to grips with Google Groups...)

Suky

[Steve King]

Sounds really interesting on multiple levels.  Clearly anything that helps freelancers and interns find work is a good thing.  It's also a good opportunity for small businesses to discover and use on demand, flexible talent.  

There's been some recent stats that support this idea.  oDesk recently did some research on the buyers of talent services on their site and found that 58% self-classify as startups.  The next largest group of talent buyers self-classified as small businesses.  

And our most recent data - which won't be officially published for another week or so - shows about one quarter of independent workers (freelancers, self-employed, etc.) hire other independent workers on a contract, talent on demand basis.  

So this concept leverages trends already happening in the marketplace and, hopefully, helps all involved out.  I look forward to learning more and see how it works.  Please keep us informed.

[Suky Stroud]

Thanks Steve, your data is really interesting too. Those kinds of stats/trends definitely influenced the concept, and we're hoping that with the data we're collecting from sign-ups and votes, we'll be able to produce even more. The variety of respondents so far has been surprising. Think we've hit on something that could be very useful to a variety of people.