Hotels Offering Tiered Spaces for the Remote Work Era

As Accor continues to stamp its Wojo co-working brand across all its properties, it can expect more competition from other hotel brands that are starting to offer their own premium spaces.

A growing number of startups are also looking to fill the gap by “activating” these spaces in top-end hotels — a potential signal this particular area of hospitality is fast maturing.

Worklounge, for example, is a flexible workspace startup that offers subscriptions to high quality business, executive and club lounges in four- and five-star hotels. These areas in theory can offer a more relaxed working atmosphere, particularly if they provide hotel comforts and reflect the hotel's design, rather than typically efficient co-working spaces that focus on desks, cubicles and sound-proofed booths. In Thailand, it already plugs into brands like InterContinental and Sofitel.

“Quite a few traditional hotel companies were trying to catch up by developing some kind of