Vast Coworking Group President Jason Anderson was featured in a Commercial Property Executive report on the state of coworking in 2026, where he outlined why this year marks a turning point for flexible workspace adoption across commercial real estate.
“2026 will be the first official year that CRE will have a flex-first approach,” Anderson told CPE. “Today, large and mid-size companies are actively using flexible workspace to right-size their portfolios, reduce long-term risk and bring their teams closer to where their talent lives.”
The article, titled Coworking in 2026: From Stopgap to Strategy, examines how hybrid work has matured from an experiment into a structured operating model, and how that shift is accelerating enterprise demand for turnkey, flexible environments.
Anderson pointed to Fortune 500 companies as evidence of the trend. Companies including Allstate and T-Mobile are cutting 60 to 80 percent of their traditional office space, he noted, creating a growing need for flexible workspaces that can serve distributed teams across multiple markets.
The shift extends beyond individual memberships. According to Anderson, employers now want flexible terms and the ability to expand or contract without the financial burden of long-term traditional leases. Private offices and dedicated suites have become the most sought-after products in the category.
Vast Coworking Group, the world’s largest privately-owned franchisor of coworking spaces and the third-largest coworking network globally, operates three brands: Venture X, Office Evolution, and Intelligent Office.
Read the full article at Commercial Property Executive.
