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On-site child care available for
members at Common Ground’s fifth venue in
Malaysia’s coworking industry leader Common Ground today announced its
partnership with child enrichment centre Curious
Child as it opened its fifth Klang Valley venue. Founded by none other than
beauty queen and working mother Carey Ng, Curious Child is attached to Common
Ground’s latest 21,000 square feet coworking venue in popular neighbourhood
shopping centre Citta Mall in Ara Damansara.
Common Ground is Malaysia’s leading and largest
coworking space that prides itself on not just being a communal workspace but
building a sustainable and integrated coworking community. Co-founded by Erman
Akinci and Juhn Teo, the duo is on a mission to provide the ideal work
environment; a place where people can go and work from an ergonomic and
visually-appealing space and be surrounded by other like-minded entrepreneurs,
digital nomads, developers, designers, working mothers and everything in
between.
Erman Akinci, co-founder of Common Ground said, “It's
been an interesting journey filled with strategic planning and careful
execution of this specific venue to get to where we are today. In line with the
new government’s recent statement on addressing women empowerment and child
welfare, our aim through this partnership with Curious Child is to provide
services that meets the needs of working mothers and encourage them to join our
growing community to utilise and enjoy one of our many offerings, all whilst
they build their careers.”
At present, there are not many office spaces
that provide childcare facilities or services which causes women to give up
one’s career in order to care for one’s children. Seizing this opportunity,
Common Ground’s latest partnership with Curious Child is aimed at providing the
support needed by working mothers who struggle to manage the demands of both
one’s professional career and domestic responsibilities.
“With the rampant rise of coworking spaces in the region, we always have
our ear on the ground for potential opportunities and disruptions in the
industry and closely monitor
potential acquisition targets that align with our
brand. It’s crucial for us to identify the needs of the working generation of
today and fulfil those in order to continuously be on top of our game. We will
continue to explore similar partnerships of these sorts as we continue to grow
our business and expand into the Southeast Asian region,” said Juhn
Teo, co-founder of Common Ground.
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| Curious Child opens its first venue next to Common Ground Ara Damansara |
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| Curious Child was founded by ex beauty queen Carey Ng |
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| Common Ground partners with child day-care centre Curious Child to widen its offerings to the coworking community |
Since giving birth in September last year, Carey
experienced first-hand the difficulty of balancing one’s professional life
while physically, emotionally and mentally tending to a newborn. Identifying
the opportunity to create a facility to support working mothers whilst
promoting early learning in children, Curious Child was founded. The child
enrichment centre offers a multitude of services including infant care,
enrichment programs, prep school programs and the “drop and work” program.
“We all
know that having a baby brings about a massive shift in one’s life – especially
for working mothers. I’m a strong advocator of women being able to balance
one’s personal and professional life. When I came up with the idea of Curious
Child, I visualised it to be more than just a daycare center - it’s a learning
ground, complete with child-minding assistance and play-based learning
activities – so while you build your career, your little ones can build their
minds. It’s an honour to be partnering with Common Ground, Malaysia’s coworking
space industry leader, whose values align with mine as they provide the support
needed for working mothers to find their balance. I look forward to what this
partnership has to offer as we pave the way forward in enabling the new working
generation of today,” said Carey Ng.
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| HOT DESKING |
Common Ground Ara Damansara houses an in-house
café, event space, board rooms, several smaller meeting rooms, quiet lounges,
and three formats of workspace — hot desking, fixed desking and private offices
for two or more people.
To book a site visit to one of Common Ground’s
five venues or to explore the different pricing packages, visit the website at http://www.commonground.work.
For more information on Curious Child and its
offerings, drop an email to curiouschildcenter@gmail.com.
About Common Ground
Co-founded
by Erman Akinci and Juhn Teo, Common Ground is Malaysia’s largest leading
coworking space that prides itself on not just being a communal workspace but
building a sustainable and integrated coworking community. Common Ground is
redefining workspaces by creating a lifestyle that resonates with today’s
workforce and creating a vibrant ecosystem of like-minded people. With the
tagline “Ambition Lives Here”, Common Ground attracts today’s go-getters.
The
coworking space connects the community through a members’ portal and app called
the Ambition Engine, which allows members to keep up to date on what's
happening within the community across all the venues. Aside from weekly social
events, the members benefit from services provided by Common Ground’s lifestyle
partners, such as memberships at Fitness First and F45, grocery shopping perks
with Happy Fresh, fulfilling laundry needs with Pressto and and much more.
Since
launching in March 2017, the game-changing business has since acquired over
1,000 members across five venues in the Klang Valley (Damansara Heights, Mont
Kiara, TTDI, Bukit Bintang & Ara Damansara). It plans to open 12 venues by
the end of 2018 across Malaysia, as well as regionally in the Philippines and
Thailand.
Each Common Ground venue houses a café, event
space, board room, several smaller meeting rooms, quiet lounges, and three
formats of workspace — hot desking, fixed desking and private offices for two
or more people. They also cater to larger clients with their Enterprise Solutions.
For
more information on Common Ground, visit the website at http://www.commonground.work
Keep up
to date with the latest happenings on its social media platforms:
Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/commonground.work
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