Bureau’s slang: “corpoworking” or unbridled work villa

Imagine a house where a large family lies, but where the atmosphere is not in good shape: the parents no longer get along, each child is terrified in his room, and the oldest is on the verge of fingers Leave to move around with friends.

Faced with this disengagement, parents decide overnight to welcome young dynamic workers who will accommodate the house in exchange for services: small dishes, cleaning, organization of video game tournaments. “It’s win-win [” win-win “]”, exclaims the mother by signing the contract.

In a company, a “corpoworking” space has more or ordered this specifications, for example by transforming the entire ground floor of a building in coworking space. Why “Corpo”? Because space is hosted by a well -determined company (corporation). In corpoworking, a company therefore welcomes alongside its employees, self-employed (possibly its service providers), start-ups or nomadic employees.

increased version of the “flex office”

The word is naughty, certainly, but the intention is laudable: the project aims at emulation, by making spheres coexist which are not found or little. The first examples date from the early 2010s and then concern technology giants in search of renewal.

If a company can finance these open places (or third -lieux) by pure charity -in Toulouse, Action Housing has financed a network of corpoworking spaces to limit home -work trips and recreate social ties -, the Model often seeks to facilitate the realization of certain projects, with partners.

This is the case with the Villa Bonne Nouvelle, in the Sentier district, in Paris: this old building of the PTT standardists has since 2014 have been the “Vitrine of HR innovation of the Orange group”. It offers freelancers and start-ups a space of 350 square meters in order to experiment with new managerial practices. Ported on the aspect, his sixty occupants are not more than a year old in the villa, time to learn to live together as in a high-quality reality show.

sort of augmented version of the “flex office”, which abolishes the individual office, corpoworking wants to stimulate creativity and break the monotonous daily cdi managers … even if it is obvious that these only new relationships will not make them Hyperengagés in a snap of the fingers. For management, it will still be an opportunity to present themselves as a “big family”, open to everyone, that HRDs and real estate directors will more soberly qualify as “hybrid ecosystem”.

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