Undoubtedly, “sharing” has been the most popular noun in China in recent two years; sharing economy with Internet as media has deeply influenced the Chinese today, and from the sharing bicycle and automobile at the beginning to the later sharing mobile charge, sharing umbrella and sharing fitness room, it seems that people have sought how to share all the resources that can be dominated and utilized with the public valuably.

In office space, maybe you have never thought that you will sit with the people from different enterprises and enjoy the good office time in the day.

Naked Hub has planned to “sit” at one desk, “cooperate” for one project and “have” one dream in office field.

In this exhibition of “Design Shanghai”, Naked Hub has used the 130m² public space to display an environment-friendly, green and healthy office environment as well as the future office form. Even if in the exhibition with many people and intensive merchants, it has seemed quiet in the hustling surroundings.

Jiagle.com has the honor to interview the principal of Naked Hub during the exhibition.

Jiagle.com: Naked Hub As a united office space brand, Why Naked Hub chosen to participate in this furniture design exhibition? 

A: Design Shanghai and Naked Hub are good friends. This year, Design Shanghai has invited Naked Hub to create “office habitat” together to release the future office design trend and have a close interaction with the industry and the consumers.

This time, this creative space “office habitat” has displayed the future office form in the way of live-action experience, and we expect to convey the design idea of Naked Hub and build the consistent green and health work atmosphere of Naked Hub.

Jiagle.com: Naked Hub emphasizes the mobile united office not limited by time or space, same as “sharing” idea. In Naked Hub’s view, will the furniture industry greet the “sharing” era?

A: In the future, sharing will enable the industries to exist in the more economic and greener way, which means the cost performance will be higher. United office is sharing economy, and the furniture industry will also greet the sharing era later. The concept of sharing apartment has appeared in the market, so Naked Group is also planning the products of such co-life concept, and it is still in progress currently.

Jiagle.com: United office praises the open and sharing office space. The privacy and safety required by office will be damaged? 

A: The public area and private area need to be balanced while the office environment is designed. Naked Hub also provides all kinds of private space while providing the public area. There are three kinds of stations: firstly, mobile station, which is suitable for the freelancers or the people on business trip frequently and needing to have office in different cities; secondly, open station, which is fixed itself but with the open environment, and it is suitable for and facilities the exchanges and communications with others; thirdly, private station, which is the independent office room and is suitable for the companies requiring the certain privacy.

Additionally, Naked Hub is provided with the good property management and security management to guarantee privacy and safety of Naked Hub.

Jiagle.com: What's the product features and future development focus of Naked Hub simply?

A: Naked Hub is devoted to bringing the sharing office experience to the broader groups, interpreting the ideas of Naked Hub on environmental protection, green and health by design and displaying the future office form – integrated with meeting, sports, entertainment and social contact.

Recently, Naked Hub has released the innovative product “Naked Hub GO”, and it has broken the monthly fee system in the united office industry and has become the world’s first brand providing the billing-on-time united office space service. In the reception room and public area of the Naked Hub, if you drink coffee, hold a meeting, stay for a short time to work or directly stay for one day, you will pay according to the time actually used.

“Naked Hub GO” is breaking through the united office industry in which enterprises serve enterprises in a traditional meaning, and has been the first to turn to provide the services for enterprises and wide consumers simultaneously and directly face every consumer.

Jiagle.com: Any conflict between the ideas of office space promoted by Naked Hub and the traditional idea of office space in China?

A: According to the Research Report on the Office Behaviors of the Generation Born in the 1990s: the generations born in the 1980s and the 1990s pursue the open and free company culture; they hope that their office will be located in the core business area; their degree of liking towards the united office space is the highest, and their degree of liking towards the traditional office building is far lower than that of the generation born in the 1970s, which reflects the development trend of office space.

Jiagle.com: Settled in China, what’s opportunities and challenges? The expectation for the future development of China’s furniture industry?

A: The first Naked Hub was opened in Fuxing Road, Shanghai in November 2015. Till now, Naked Hub has had 17 stores in Shanghai and 6 stores in Beijing, and it will expand to the countries such as Vietnam, Australia and the UK and other regions. During the period, Naked Hub purchased Raise, a united office operator in Shanghai in 2007; in January 2018, Naked Hub officially published the plan of purchasing Gravity, a high-end office space brand in Australia; in April 2018, it merged with WeWork, a sharing office giant in the U.S.; in the future, Naked Hub also plans to conduct the cross-border cooperation with Mobike and Harbour International to divide the passenger sources for each other.

(Source:jiagle.com)