Abstracts
Abstract
This paper studies the spatial mobility of around a thousand coworkers of three, mid-sized French cities to better understand coworking spaces. Our analysis, based on online available data on coworkers’ career and education trajectories, and confirmed by selected interviews with the founder, managers and users of the three coworking spaces, reveals a community with purposefully reduced mobility. We provide insights into how coworking spaces, by pooling a diversity of local resources, foster dynamism and allow a reduced spatial mobility option for a less kinetic elite of highly educated workers. Coworking spaces allow coworkers to develop entrepreneurial capabilities whilst striking a balance with their private life. The studied coworking community collectively achieves its goals, with individuals engaging in little international mobility and an overall reduced spatial mobility.
Keywords:
- Coworking spaces,
- spatial mobility,
- international mobility,
- diversity
Résumé
Ce papier étudie la mobilité spatiale d’environ mille coworkers de trois villes moyennes françaises. Notre analyse révèle que la communauté de travail ainsi constituée se caractérise par une mobilité délibérément réduite. Plus précisément, nos résultats montrent que les espaces de coworking étudiés regroupent une large diversité de ressources locales qui rend possible une mobilité spatiale limitée notamment à l’international. Les espaces de coworking permettent à des coworkers globalement hautement instruits non seulement de développer leurs capacités entrepreneuriales mais également de trouver un équilibre entre vie professionnelle et vie privée.
Mots-clés :
- espaces de coworking,
- mobilité spatiale,
- mobilité internationale,
- diversité
Resumen
Este documento estudia la movilidad espacial alreador de mil coworkers en tres ciudades medianas francesas para conocer mejor los espacios de coworking. Nuestro análisis revela una comunidad con una movilidad deliberadamente reducida. Ofrecemos perspectivas sobre como los espacios de coworking, aunando differentes recursos locales, promueven dinamismo y permiten una opción de movilidad reducida para une élite menos cinética de trabajadores de alto nivel de educación. Los espacios de coworking permeten que los coworkers fomenten habilidades empresariales et consigan un equilibrio con la necessidades de la vida privada. La comunidad estudiada obtiene colectivamente sus objetivos, y los individuos ejercen una limitada movilidad internacional y una reducida movilidad espacial en general.
Palabras clave:
- Espacios de coworking,
- movilidad espacial,
- movilidad internacional,
- diversidad
Appendices
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