Co-working

[Benjamin Barrett]

No prize for brilliant word coining, but "co-working" is given in an
article in yesterday's Seattle Times (from the Chicago Tribune by
Stevenson Swanson) for a situation where solitary workers lease space,
generally so they can talk or else just have a place outside of their
home to work.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2008209944_coworking.html

Among other things, the article claims "Co-working sites first showed
up in the San Francisco Bay Area three years ago..."

Although different in character, I recall leasing office space circa
1995 in Seattle, where they gave us offices to use up to X hours per
month plus various services including an answering service that
provided a neutral answer to disguise the fact that it wasn't your
exclusive space. Various other schemes had clearly been around longer
than that in Seattle and other cities, probably decades, though I
don't recall a specific word for that industry. BB

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