The Cities With the Highest Costs to Co-Work


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A snapshot of how much it costs to go flex reveals few discrepancies in pricing, but some telltale signs of where prices could be about to soar.
For those companies planning on swapping offices for co-working spaces, one company has analyzed the cost of doing so around the world. You may be one of them — an estimated five million people will be based in co-working spaces by 2024, an increase of 158 percent on 2022. The U.S. features the three most expensive places for remote workers, with San Francisco, New York City and Boston topping a list of 53 cities. Rank City Country Co-working Space Search Volume Number of Co-working Spaces Average Cost Per Desk/Month (USD) 1 San Francisco U.S. 2,400 81 $359 2 New York U.S. 590 454 $356 3 Boston U.S. 1,300 65 $343 4 Hong Kong Hong Kong 1,600 341 $329 5 Sydney Australia 1,300 169 $318 6 Stockholm Sweden 1,000 84 $315 7 Tel Aviv Israel 210 39 $313 8 London UK 4,400 1,322 $308 9 Los Angeles U.S. 1,900 130 $305 10 Melbourne Australia 1,600 209 $297 Source: businessnamegenerator.com The new report also covers internet speeds, and looks at which cities are the best for commuters, based on travel times and costs. On this front, Doha in Qatar comes out on top: a one-way ticket on public transport costs an average of just $0.55, and a liter of petrol is $0.57. Commuters on public transportation can expect to wait just three minutes for transport, and their average commute time is only 30 minutes. But England's capital is the most in demand, bas