Brooklyn Flexible Office and Workspace Providers Directory

Flexible Office Space and Workspace Companies in Brooklyn

Our guides to flexible office and workspace providers in Brooklyn

How do you Easily Compare the Brooklyn Office Space Market?

At The Office Providers, we offer access to a wide range of flexible workspace options in Brooklyn, curated from various providers, operators, and brands. This allows you to search and compare workspaces that best suit your needs.

We act as an aggregator of office space, filtering and condensing the entire marketplace to show you options that perfectly match your requirements.

Many office space landlords that traditionally provide leased office space for rent now offer non-leased workspace options, so in these cases, they are also classified as office providers.

Find out more about Brooklyn flex space companies by reading our guides.

Below are our guides to flexible workspace providers and operators that provide shared offices, executive suites, private serviced office space, managed office rentals, coworking spaces and other flexible business and working space options in Brooklyn in areas including:

Our guides to flexible office and workspace providers in Brooklyn

Many landlords who would traditionally provide leasehold or leased office spaces to rent in Brooklyn are now also offering non-leased workspace options.

Tenants looking to sublet some of their excess office space can often provide short-term office space rental options.

We also offer access to these flexible leasing options.

Why does it pay to Compare the Whole Brooklyn Flexible Office Space Market?

BK and BKLYN – ok, so, Brooklyn doesn’t have quite as many monikers as its fellow boroughs; however, when it was classed as a city in the past, it was known as the largest city on earth, so, there’s that.

Although it may not have the same number of nicknames, with over 2.5 million residents today, it remains the most populous of the Five Boroughs. And, incidentally, if it were classed as a city today, it would be the third most populated in the US.

It may not have the same number of shared office providers as its neighbour across the river, either, but with over thirty, the number is significant.

Brooklyn is also home to workspace provider Green Desk, which was a precursor to WeWork, arguably the best-known coworking and private office provider globally.

Brooklyn is also home to many high-profile office occupiers, including Buzzer, Etsy, Huge, Kickstarter, and Vice Media, among others.

Today, the demand for the type of office space that flexible workspace companies like WeWork and Green Desk create and provide is growing.

It has been growing since the Great Recession, but its popularity has risen significantly since the pandemic.

Following the events at the end of the 2000s, companies began to increasingly seek out recession-proof office space options that incorporated elements of future-proofing.

Many businesses across a wide range of sectors had to make large numbers of redundancies, resulting in an excess of office space. Those tied into leases would continue to pay office rent until they had a contractually agreed option to exit.

As soon as they were able, many organisations sought workplaces that offered more flexible contracts with shorter terms.

Many looked for month-to-month workspace options or other agreements that were easier to exit.

These offices, which were easier to exit, also had the advantage of being easy to enter, as they were furnished offices with most amenities included in the monthly fee. These offices required lower levels of commitment and CapEx, and they increasingly grew in popularity.

Another by-product of the Great Recession was the increase in the number of workspace options available to freelancers in Brooklyn. The rise of the gig economy stemmed from people seeking to take control of their careers and destinies, thereby choosing to work for themselves. This empowering choice, combined with lower barriers to entry in many sectors, meant that a new wave of workers sought desk space for their businesses, armed with a laptop and their favourite coffee mug.

The demand from corporations seeking flexible business space plus freelancers seeking hot desks or dedicated desks led to something of a flexible space revolution in the 2010s – suddenly there was a growing range of desk space options, private office suites, open desk coworking options, private turn-key office space that an office provider manages, various forms of executive office suites and other forms of managed workspaces available throughout Brooklyn.

Of course, flexible office space had already been available for decades. Still, with this increasing demand, and due to the rippling effects of large, high-profile operators such as the aforementioned WeWork, which focused on creating design-led spaces, the quality of these workspace options grew considerably.

Sometimes referred to as the ‘hotelification’ of office space or ‘workspitality’, there was a somewhat increasing crossover of workspace and hospitality represented within these flexible business space properties. Occupiers of these spaces were finding that these business centres were now equipped with cafes, gyms, meditation rooms, and networking events providing access to investors, as well as many other ‘added extras’.

Many of these business centres were dog-friendly, had bicycle storage, showers, and locker rooms, and with the full range of additional services created, these places of work increasingly supported enhanced work-life balance, particularly as many of these buildings provided 24/7 access.

Large corporations also found great value in these flexible office space options, too and terms such as Workspace as a Service (WaaS), Headquarters as a Service (HQaaS), and Space as a Service (SPaaS) started emerging within commercial real estate and corporate business lexicon.

The demand from various types of users led to considerable market growth, and what was once considered an excellent option for startups only was now being utilised by the full spectrum of businesses, ranging from freelancers to SMBs and Fortune 500 multinational corporations.

Whilst the Great Recession was a significant catalyst for the flexible space industry, the pandemic that started in 2020 created another accelerant.

Most office users found, during lockdown periods, that they were unable to use their offices; however, the ‘cloud’ became a silver lining for many businesses. With cloud-based technology and applications like Zoom and Teams, many companies were able to continue operating.

This led to a large-scale reevaluation of how to use the office post-pandemic – was the office needed in the longer term?

It wasn’t until the office was taken away that businesses and employees, alike realised the value of face-to-face interaction, having a team base, and working in a physical space that facilitated the osmosis of ideas – many spoke of the missed benefits of routine and the psychological benefits of separating home from work, some even talked about the benefits of the actual commute to a place of work.

Working from home (WFH) worked for some. However, this depended on the business, department, management style, organisational structure, type of work, as well as the living arrangements of team members and other factors.

What this global remote working experiment led to was a re-evaluation of working culture as a whole.

What has been clear since this period is that many businesses are now seeking Covid-compliant, ultra-clean, and agile office space that incorporates various elements of flexibility, allowing them to remain resilient to future unexpected events, whatever they may be.

Many companies are experimenting with hybrid working, whereby they utilise homeworking for remote, distributed team members, collaborative creative workspaces for team meetings, project work, training, and other tasks, and smaller, repurposed headquarters offices, in some cases.

As the time and space requirements of a main or headquarters office decrease, many are also looking to upgrade their office space. This flight to quality is motivated by employers seeking to create people-centric spaces that encourage their team members and clients to maximise their productivity outside the office, while also ensuring they feel safe and highly valued.

Businesses are increasingly making proactive choices for their workplaces, allowing them to be efficiently reactive in the future.

A workspace that grows with them but can be scaled down if needed.

As this industry grows, many traditional office landlords that would typically only provide office space for rent in Brooklyn are now offering more flexible workplace products and non-leased office space. There is also an increased crossover between traditional workplace products and flexible space arrangements.

This can make the office space market somewhat tricky to navigate at times.

This is how we help.

We provide access to all options from the flexible space market in Brooklyn, under one ‘roof’.

We don’t overwhelm you with these options, though – our locally-based flexible business space experts handpick a selection of workplace options that perfectly match your business’s unique requirements.

We can also arrange office viewings, both in-person and virtual, via Zoom, Teams, Matterport, and other platforms. Additionally, we can help you negotiate the deal on your terms.

We are also globally regulated by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) so we are independent and impartial and, as we are paid a fee by the flex space provider (only once the perfect solution is arrived at), our office search, advisory, and acquisition services are always completely FREE.

So, get in touch and let us help you easily find the best office space in Brooklyn for your team.

The Office Providers – Adding Transparency to the Flexible Office Space Market ™