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Hiring someone is simple; finding the right person to introduce to your business, however, is far more difficult. Entrepreneurs, start-ups and enterprise organisations alike constantly struggle with creating well-tailored recruitment processes to both attract and retain skilled employees.

Fortunately, flexible coworking spaces are making the process infinitely easier for businesses of all sizes. Through a combination of networking and collaborative opportunities and adaptable working arrangements, company owners now have multiple avenues of accessing potential employees outside of the regular recruiting process. Here are three of the many benefits flexible coworking spaces hold to help recruit new talent.

An Environment for Wider Networking & Cross-Team Collaboration

The very definition of a coworking space is to operate in a location beside another business, organisation, or freelancer, making it an incredibly lucrative environment to broaden your network. Together you can naturally enter mutually beneficial arrangements with individuals that may have a skillsets needed by your operations and vice versa. Collaboration of this nature is extremely commonplace in coworking spaces, and while an employee relationship may well be formed, you may also wish to engage with a freelancer, or even partner with another business who has a complimenting service range to your own.

Introduce More Opportunities for Further Education

Savvy business owners don’t look for employees who are comfortable with their existing skillset; they want motivated applicants who are constantly searching for opportunities to increase their abilities. Coworking spaces are a natural hub for the sharing of educational material, whether in a direct, one-on-one fashion, or through wider community events. After all, recruiting new talent doesn’t always have to mean bringing new people into your organisation. Instead, further educating existing employees can offer new perspectives to your workflow. And should someone offering these educational opportunities be looking for a job opening, what better place is there to scope their abilities?

Flexible Working Arrangements for Better Work-Life Balance & Productivity

The modern world has rapidly shifted to new ways of working, which leaves the traditional 9-5 grind in the office a thing of the past. As such, employees value flexible working arrangements that award them a greater work-life balance. The ability to have more input on your hours, splitting time between a public office & home office setting has been proven to create greater productivity over previous, outdated methods. Employees and business partners can have the freedom to meet their performance targets without becoming overworked or placing pressure on their external commitments. What’s more, another popular feature of many coworking spaces is the additional facilities available, such as meditation rooms and event spaces, adding further incentive to secure your viable candidates.

For more information on how coworking spaces could benefit your businesscontact a member of our friendly team at workspace365 today.