International workplace group adds 1,132 new locations in 2025, as property owners and investors capitalise on rapidly growing demand for flexible workspace and platform working

March 10th, 2026 – International Workplace Group (IWG), the world's largest platform for work with brands including Spaces and Regus, has announced that it has signed 1,132 new centres to its network in 2025, and opened 782 new workspaces – with more new locations than in the entire first two decades of its operations.

An overwhelming 95% of these locations are being delivered via managed partnership agreements, delivering on IWG’s capital light strategy. With unrivalled capacity to convert any building in any location into a commercially successful operation, IWG can provide a brand to suit any type of concept and building. South Africa currently has 83 centres across the country, with substantial growth anticipated in 2026.

The rapid growth in new locations is being driven by property owners and partners seeking to capitalise on the rapidly growing demand for hybrid working. As many of these property owners have vacant space to fill with the decline in demand for traditional office real estate and are choosing to partner with IWG’s industry leading hybrid working platform, benefitting from an extensive 18-strong brand portfolio. This includes Regus, Spaces, HQ and Signature, as well as new launches including Humanly, a purpose-designed flexible workspace offering for the healthcare and wellbeing industries.

IWG is working with landlords and developers to transform conventional spaces into dynamic and thriving work environments for workers, while generating substantial and sustainable revenue streams for its partners. The vast majority of IWG’s new locations are in the suburbs, smaller commuter towns and cities.

These even include towns with populations as small as 5,000 - 10,000 such as Swellendam and Hermanus in the Western Cape area and smaller towns in Pretoria in South Africa, which are all seeing the strong demand for hybrid working solutions. The group is expanding its network locations deep into the heart of the communities where they are needed.

With thousands of locations spanning across more than 120 countries in every time zone, and leveraging its three decades of experience, IWG provides an array of workspace solutions for every type of property. Whether it's a two-storey building in an out-of-town business park, an office block in a prestigious downtown locale, or a former retail unit in a bustling shopping centre, IWG tailors its offerings to meet the diverse demands of its customers and enables partners to monetise vacant space.

As the global leader in hybrid working, IWG now has over 5,000 signed locations in more than 120 countries, but the potential for further growth is exponential with an estimated 1.2 billion white collar workers globally and a total addressable market of more than $2 trillion (£1.57 trillion).

The flexible workspace sector is projected to grow by 600% by 2030, to which Mark Dixon, IWG Founder and CEO comments: “2025 was a record year for both revenue and network expansion, reaching record revenue and experiencing our strongest network expansion to date, with 1,132 new centre signings and 782 openings. This provides the foundations for continued growth in the year ahead.

"We will continue to make ongoing investments into our world class platform as well as focusing on the rapid growth of network coverage in partnership with the property industry and investors using capital-light expansion methods, including management agreements, partnering deals and franchising."

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About International Workplace Group PLC

International Workplace Group is the global leader in hybrid work solutions and workspace brands. We create personal, financial, and strategic value for businesses of every size. From some of the most exciting companies and well-known organisations on the planet, to individuals and the next generation of industry leaders. All of them harness the power of International Workplace Group’s hybrid working platform to increase their productivity, efficiency, agility, and market proximity.

International Workplace Group’s unrivalled network coverage includes more than 5,000 locations across more than 120 countries and 83% of Fortune 500 companies are amongst our growing customer base.

Through our brands including Regus, Spaces, HQ and Signature, we help millions of people and their businesses to work more productively. We do so by providing the world’s leading hybrid work platform with professional, inspiring and collaborative workspaces and digital services all available via the International Workplace Group’s app.

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