“Why not? Why not have a bowling alley?” That’s Cliff Ho, talking about his latest co-working space in Sydney’s CBD. The Commons, where Ho is chief executive, now has more than a dozen locations, marking a quiet comeback for co-working after years in the wilderness.
The remarkable rise of co-working in the 2010s was meant to revolutionise the way people did business, well before the coming of working from home. They were agile, creative and cheap – and spruiked by charismatic entrepreneurs like Adam Neumann, who founded WeWork.
