Originally published on LinkedIn, August 26th 2025

Coworking has been around for a while now. The concept started 20 years ago. Brad Neuberg founded the San Francisco Coworking Space. He wanted a place that combined the freedom of freelancing with the structure and community of traditional offices.

In Brussels, the first coworking started back in 2010 with the Betacowork collaborative working (started by Ramon Suarez). It’s still around today thanks to the stewardship of Toon Vanagt.

Fast forward to today, remote work has fundamentally changed the way we work. Employees can now experience coworking and meet new people outside of their company. But nobody is going to a coworking 5 days a week anymore.

This creates new challenges. If people only go 1, 2 or 3 days to the coworking, how do you make sure that you still get to bump into each other? After all, one of the key values of going to a coworking space is the community. Meeting your peers, exchanging tips and tricks, discovering new opportunities, etc.

This got us thinking. What if we could create an excuse for people working in the same industry to come cowork on the same day?

That's how we came up with the idea of Themed Coworking Days.

We are starting with the community of people working in crypto since they’ve already been meeting every first Wednesday of the month for "Crypto Wednesday".

Concretely, every first Wednesday of the month, people working in that industry can enjoy a free coworking day (tag the people you know could benefit from this!). To facilitate connections, there will be an open schedule where anyone is invited to contribute or join a pod (a workshop, a conversation or a presentation), unconference style. 🔅

This is very much an experiment. That's what we do at the Commons Hub. We try, we get feedback, we iterate. With all the time the same mission: how do we nurture communities? How do we steward common resources?

If you would also love to bring your community together for a regular common coworking day, reach out to Cedric Sounard (also happening: AI on Mondays, wellbeing on Tuesdays, spirituality on Sundays, more info soon).

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