Coworking started as a small, fringe movement of people who wanted to work independently, but within a community. A decade later, that movement has become a rapidly-growing global industry that’s entering the mainstream.
A new coworking forecast by Emergent Research predicts that the number of coworking spaces worldwide will grow to 26,000 in 2020 from 11,000 this year. That's 3,000 more than the number of Starbucks stores worldwide in 2015. In that same time, coworking membership is expected to nearly quadruple to 3.8 million members from 976,000 today.