ABSTRACT
This chapter defines thriving at work and demonstrating why it is a construct of interest in study of wellbeing. It describes what is known about how organizations can enable more human thriving at work. The chapter introduces the phenomenon of coworking and describe what new insights these workspaces may offer for enabling thriving at work in all kinds of work contexts and situations. It explains more about what the coworking phenomenon entails and why it may be of interest. Much of the existing research on thriving at work is conducted in large organizational settings. The chapter offers several reasons why the experience of coworking enables independent and remote workers to thrive in their work, especially beyond the earlier findings articulated earlier. The emergence of coworking coincides with major economic shifts and the impact that those shifts have had on traditionally office-based knowledge work.
