Two years after the social confinement was announced due to the pandemicthe return to physical work spaces represented a new challenge for companies dedicated to office rentals, which have had to adapt to the new needs of employers but also of workers.
In an interview for The EconomistRamón García Quintana, country manager of Comunal Coworking, acknowledges that the covid-19 In addition to a recession, it brought with it a revolution in the practices, dynamics, uses and customs of companies and workers in relation to their jobs.
“After the worst of both crises, the health and the economic one, and even with a slow recovery, at Comunal Coworking we are observing and perceiving a lot of dynamism in the return to the office, yes, under different models than the ones we were used to,” he explains. .
“The worker has developed in these years a high preference for flexible work that allows him to combine work in the office with work at home. This factor, which is here to stay and to which a high percentage of companies have decided to join, has been very positive for our sector because it is our products that allow companies to adapt to this new reality more efficiently”.
The manager points out that the value offer of Comunal Coworking through its products and services has become more relevant than it already had for both businessmen and workers as well as for the owners of real estate assets in the office sector who, after the above, seek each once again offer coworking spaces inside their buildings.
Transformation
García Quintana indicated that in the last two years they have faced various changes, which has led them to invest heavily in innovation, maximizing the experience of the worker in their work space.
“At Comunal we innovate both in our traditional business model by rebalancing the relationship with our landlords (owners of the buildings in which we operate), as well as in expanding our offer towards the operation of third-party offices and, last but very importantly, to through investment in technology developed “in-house” that allows us to offer our clients a Software in the form of a mobile app that makes the operation of their offices and the interaction of workers with them much more efficient and dynamic, once again , maximizing their experience and making their processes more efficient”, he concludes.