Third Space is a place between work and home in which workers ‘touchdown’ — such as a meeting room, a coffee shop with Wi-Fi, a hot desk, a business lounge, or a coworking space.
The third space concept first emerged in 1989 in Ray Oldenburg’s influential book The Great Good Place. He refers to ‘first place’ as being one’s home, ‘second place’ as the workplace, where people spend much of their time earning a living, and ‘third place’ as the community life anchors that, historically, were likely to be informal meeting places.
