{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Coworking Values Podcast","title":"How Childcare Plus Coworking Becomes Social Infrastructure with Georgia Norton","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1925,"description":"“What concerns me most is this idea that we’re returning to the norms from before... when we tore down the walls between home and work and childcare.”Georgia NortonTired of running yourself into the ground?Then stop running alone.On February 24th, the London Coworking Assembly presents Unreasonable Connection Goes Live!—a one-day working session for the people running London’s most vital neighbourhood spaces and the public sector allies working to help them thrive. It’s a day to share the load, find real solutions, and build a new playbook, together.Georgia Norton spent spring 2024 interviewing founders, childcare workers, and parents across co-located childcare and coworking spaces.What she documented wasn’t a pandemic oddity for affluent families.It was a structural shift in how people want to arrange work and care.The report, “The Case for Childcare plus coworking,” argues that these spaces should be treated as essential social infrastructure, not premium amenities.Georgia calls it social infrastructure because that’s what it functions as:* Places where work happens alongside childcare* Where childcare workers gain professional development opportunities shoulder to shoulder with laptop workers* Where bridges get built between people who’d never otherwise meetBut Georgia’s facing pushback from two contradictory directions.Front one: This is elitist. How could this ever be universal childcare?The spaces look too nice, too intentional about natural light and materials.Front two: Not everyone wants work and care integrated.Some people prefer separation, long commutes, and wrap-around daycare.Both critiques miss what Georgia is actually arguing.She’s not trying to universalise a single model.She’s pointing out that thousands of families restructured their lives during the pandemic and don’t want to return to the way things were.They’ve tasted something different—messy, overlapping, human—and the old binary (office or home, parent or professional, boss or employee)...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/WIBJeL0fXbpb8oNZHEtSu5qeC3870OdCYV3XNCIVY1M/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8yZTBm/NGQ1N2YzYTcyNmE3/NTc2ZmU5NTBlYmNj/OTEwOC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}