In this article, you'll learn:

• Why coworking spaces remain valuable for flexibility during COVID-19.
• The challenges coworking spaces face with social distancing and density.
• Economic limitations that hinder coworking spaces from adapting to COVID needs.
• How communal coworking designs may not meet post-COVID demands.
• Why coworking will survive but shift towards more privacy and traditional office use.

As the fall of 2020 progresses, COVID is continuing to affect the way that people work. While some companies like JP Morgan Chase are calling employees back and others, like Amazon and Facebook, are continuing with plans to lease large new spaces, others are continuing to allow their workers to partially or completely work from home. Winding throughout this new working environment is the theme of co-working. How will WeWork, Knotel, and other co-work providers fare in this new world?