3 ways to connect through co-working spaces
How three very different credit unions are collaborating with their communities for better business development.
Co-working spaces are a fast-growing phenomenon that have emerged as the rise of the gig economy and other self-employed entrepreneurs has created the need for affordable locations for innovative spirits to commune and create.
They’re also a natural fit for credit unions, a movement that began as tiny savings and loan pools that has grown into a network of full-blown financial services institutions hard-wired to collaborate on ideas and resources.
A report by Emergent Research for the Global Coworking Unconference Conference predicts the number of U.S. co-workers to grow from 331,000 in 2015 to 754,000 this year to nearly 1.1 million in 2022. The same report pegs the number of co-working spaces at 14 in 2007, 5,026 this year, and a predicted 6,219 in 2022.
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