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In that same year, in London‟s Angel station a co-working space named as “The Hub” made. From there more 40 other coworking spaces have been developed, which is the biggest network of coworking spaces as of today.
2006:
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Brad Neuberg, Chris Messina and Tara Hunt together started a first full time co-working space called „the Hat factory‟. They established the network of coworking forum, coworking wiki and coworking blog.
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In that same year, the first “Jellies” started, which is a meeting space where a small group of people come together to collaborate within an informal atmosphere.
2007: The term „co-working‟ was seen as a trend on Google. However, until 2009/2010 it was limited to US.
2008: The first unofficial coworking meet-ups took place. By the end of 2008, there are about 160 coworking spaces worldwide.
2009: Germany had its first coworking space and one year later Germany established as first European country that used term coworking according to the Google trend.
2010: In 2010, the market of coworking took rise. In this year, coworking was introduced in India officially. The coworking is term that was used in some textbooks of history indicating God‟s working together (1628). However, in 21st century coworking came into lights and rising from then continuously.
2012: There were 2000 coworking space and until now, the coworking spaces were doubling up every year.
2013: There were 3000 coworking spaces made.
Figure 6: Timeline of coworking. (Source: Foertsch, 2013. Drawn by Author).
From the year 2010 to 2019, the coworking spaces are rising and increasing in number all over the globe. 21
