Total revenues from coworking space in Serbia this year will amount to more than four million euros, according to the projection and the latest research done by Deli prostor, a coworking concept from Nis.
Milan Babic, program director of Deli prostor, says for Nova ekonomija that the pandemic has negatively affected this industry, the capacity of places in coworking spaces has been reduced, the expansion of space has slowed down, but after the first wave of the corona the demand for space has increased.
The total revenue from coworking space in Serbia in 2019 amounted to 4.4 million euros, while this year it is ten percent lower and amounts to four million euros.
Yet he points out that the coworking industry has survived the Covid crisis and the market will soon return to pre-crisis years caused by the corona virus.
An examination of the development of this industry in Serbia showed that in such spaces in Serbia, on average, about thirty people work and there are 462 places in coworking spaces.
Looking at professions, this year 37 percent of coworking spaces in Serbia work in the IT sector, fourteen percent in design, about ten percent in marketing, while architecture and copywriting make up six percent.
On the topic of coworking community development, a conference called Cross Border Coworking Conference was organized in Budva (October 5 and 6), which was attended by participants from the region, Europe and the world, which discussed digital nomads and coworking community development.
At that event, it was concluded that there is great potential in the region for further development of these communities in which people of different professions work remotely.
Classic business is changing radically, says Veljko Bogdanovic, director of Smart office, coworking space in Belgrade.
“There is a noticeable trend that people work predominantly from home, but they need to meet several times in the office during the week. However, nothing can replace live communication, because video conversations and zoom conferences are hard and it is not natural for us to talk like that for a long time,” says Bogdanovic for Nova ekonomija.
He cites the example of an IT company from Switzerland that has about twenty employees and that uses coworking space for a smaller number of people. Employees are never in the workspace at the same time, they take turns and work from home for a few days, but they maintain continuity and communication from the company.
“There are large companies around the world that operate today by renting space only for top management and administration,” says Bogdanovic.
A village for digital nomads in Zadar was recently built in neighboring Croatia.
In Serbia, there is a similar concept of a digital commune Mokrin house near Mokrin in Kikinda.
Digital nomads are people who do their job online and a country that is not their home country. In recent years, there are more and more such occupations: developers, digital marketing, graphic design, writing, e-commerce. It is estimated that by 2035, one billion people will live and work as digital nomads.
Some nomads often change location (more than twelve times a year), while others like to stay in one country for several months to a year.
Last year’s Digital Nomad Scanner survey, conducted by the Digital Serbia initiative with the support of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), states that Belgrade is listed as one of their favorite locations. In the first place is Lisbon, then Berlin and Budapest. The research states that the main reason for those who decide to stay in Serbia is that they have found an emotional partner, which happens in almost 90% of cases.
The positive sides that online nomads point out for Belgrade as their choice are, above all, the speed of Internet access, an interesting start-up scene, spaces for joint work, the European way of life at lower costs than in their countries. As negative sides, first of all, they state: climate due to cold autumn and winter and air pollution.
It is estimated that there are forty coworking spaces in Serbia, only in Belgrade there are about twenty, Nova Ekonomija reports.
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