Wake up and share the coffee

The co-working concept grew out of serviced offices, which made its first appearance in Poland in the late 1990s. Serviced offices, however, had a completely different character, with individual offices rather than open space, and did not differ significantly from traditional offices in terms of how they were managed. “Serviced offices enabled a company to start its operations almost overnight, so large corporations that were just entering the market were keen to use them to test the local waters,” explains Jarosław Pilch, the head of tenant representation in Savills’ office agency. “Serviced offices were also a place for incubating developing businesses before real incubators appeared on the market, and thus small companies and start-ups began life there – but now this role has been taken over by co-working,” he adds. However, co-working, which has a large number of tenants using common space, creates additional office management problems. How sig