The number of self-employed, freelancers, and remote workers has risen steadily;
simultaneously a range of collaborative shared workspaces–coworking spaces–has
emerged rapidly in which these individuals 'work alone together'. However, existing
research is skewed towards the community aspect of coworking, treated largely as an end in
itself and investigated by qualitative approaches only. We argue that this represents only a
partial account of coworking. Thus in addressing the basic research question of why people …