Co-working spaces are congregating on the West Coast. According to the 2017 Global Co-working Survey, West Coast cities have more co-working spaces per 100,000 employees compared to similar East Coast cities. The survey also shows that co-working is expanding and by 2020 more than 22 million Americans will work in co-working spaces. We sat down with Kurt Birkenhagen is the VP of Marketing at Vast Conference, which conducted the survey, for an exclusive interview to talk about the survey's findings.

GlobeSt.com: Why is there such a high concentration of co-working spaces on the West Coast?

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Kelsi Maree Borland

Kelsi Maree Borland is a freelance journalist and magazine writer based in Los Angeles, California. For more than 5 years, she has extensively reported on the commercial real estate industry, covering major deals across all commercial asset classes, investment strategy and capital markets trends, market commentary, economic trends and new technologies disrupting and revolutionizing the industry. Her work appears daily on GlobeSt.com and regularly in Real Estate Forum Magazine. As a magazine writer, she covers lifestyle and travel trends. Her work has appeared in Angeleno, Los Angeles Magazine, Travel and Leisure and more.