Mission

In a constantly changing world, fewer and fewer people and companies want or are able to commit to long-term space obligations: The demand for spatially and temporally flexible office solutions is huge, but the office market is rigid due to long-term, complex lease agreements. Spaces are almost never "tailor-made" – rarely at the time of leasing and even more rarely over time: Companies, organizations, and businesses change, but the premises do not adapt. A comprehensive, cost-effective range of temporally and spatially flexible workspaces is necessary. Neither new construction nor the few, expensive coworking locations can provide this sustainably.

The world population will grow by 2.5 billion over the next 30 years. Providing the working world with sufficient and appropriate spaces is a challenge.

Buildings are responsible for 40% of global energy consumption. Land sealing, traffic congestion, and climate change are among the biggest problems of our time.

Real estate accounts for over 50% of global assets. Spaces are valuable and simultaneously cost drivers and productivity levers.

The key to solving these challenges? Making already available spaces (whether owned or leased) more intensively used in the market! With coworking, shorter lease terms, and sharing existing inventory.

How is this possible? Offices, workstations, conference rooms, meeting areas, training rooms are not occupied 24/7, but up to 70% of the time unused. E.g., due to vacancies, part-time work, out-of-office days, home office, too much space. And ready for plug & work. Over 500 million sqm in Germany alone. Much more worldwide.

ShareYourSpace is the digital marketplace for everyone who wants to offer or book these free spaces. The platform for flexible renting and leasing of workspaces of all kinds: all locations, areas, sizes, and equipment. With or without furniture. Whether a single desk in the middle, an office room, or an entire floor. Whether for an hour, specific times, selected days, months, or longer.

A cultural and values shift is also driving sharing: using instead of owning, sustainability, and being social are at the forefront. Sharing itself is, of course, not an innovation – it has always been part of everyday life, the essence of neighborly help, carpooling, libraries, a commandment of religious teachings, a real challenge in raising children, and, incidentally, an undeniably nice trait of human nature. However, the focus of the Share Economy is not on the sandwich that, after being shared, is only half as big and which the donor would have liked to have eaten entirely. Today, sharing stands for new, changed demand behavior: joint, temporary use (Collaborative Consumption). The enabler is the web: networking of owners, possessors, and seekers, structured searches, simple presentation, request, booking, and payment processes, and mobile access, localization, and proximity search. The result: an enormous reduction in the transaction costs of sharing and, often, the costs of use itself. Translated into the real estate industry: higher space utilization equals more efficient resource use equals less real estate for the same result. Positively reinforcing are interactions with people ("From strangers to friends") and the community experience. Sharing is social! Increasingly also: Business is social! Last but not least, the economic argument is strong for those involved: Save money, get money!

ShareYourSpace: At the pulse of time and with sharing reinvented through technology!