As if dealing with the threats posed by Workspace, WeWork and other new office providers wasn’t enough for IWG, along comes the coronavirus-inspired shift to working from home. According to Mark Dixon, IWG’s founder and chief executive, last year was the most difficult in the company’s 32-year history, but, while the persistence of Covid-19 is set to make life tough again in 2021, he’s convinced that the business stands to be a big winner from changes in working practices as the pandemic subsides.
In the three decades or so since it was founded, IWG has grown to provide serviced office space in 3,358 locations across 120 countries and to employ 13,000 staff. Its proliferation of smaller offices in the regions as well as the
