Flexible Workplace : Coworking and Other Modern Workplace Transformations

With current socio-economic development trends and changing work landscapes, modern workplaces are progressively becoming a subject of flexibilisation and hybridisation. Contemporary office environments are commonly adapting to the needs of the flexible labour markets by offering the non-territorial and rotation-based practice of allocating desks to workers on dynamic schedules. This book explores this growing trend by offering different perspectives on the benefits and challenges of the flexible workplace phenomena. Topics discussed range from defining and comparing flexible, coworking and corpoworking spaces, policies made in local environments, and the flexible working taxonomy.

Marko Orel is an Assistant Professor who operates in the field of socioeconomics, particularly focusing on evolution of work and related challenges of workplace transformation. He is exploring project and operational networks of influences, community engagement moderation and its inter-relational participation in collaborative work processes. He heads the Centre of Workplace Research in Prague, Czech Republic and regularly engages in scholarly debates on future of workspace.

Ondřej Dvouletý is an Associate Professor at the Department of Entrepreneurship at the University of Economics in Prague (Czech Republic). Ondřej´s research is dedicated to the investigation of entrepreneurial activity, effects of public entrepreneurship and self-employment policies and entrepreneurial economics.

Vanessa Ratten is an Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Department of Management, Sport and Tourism, La Trobe Business School at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. She teaches Entrepreneurial Business Planning, Managing Innovation in Organisations and Entrepreneurship.