WAW: The extra offices that make life easier

Many of us dream of a smoother everyday life — with less time lost in traffic, shorter commutes, and offices located closer to home, school, or important meetings. What if we had the option of a third place: an office near home that we could use a few days each month? Imagine avoiding long queues, reclaiming valuable time, and finally getting the daily life puzzle to fit together. With Fabege’s WAW – Work Away from Work, this vision becomes reality.

The Challenge

Fabege saw the growing demand among tenant organisations for flexible, accessible work solutions beyond traditional HQ offices. Tenants needed ways to:

• Empower employees to work closer to home or between meetings.

• Offer hybrid working options without expanding office footprints.

• Reduce friction in workspace booking, access, and billing.

Fabege needed a scalable, user-friendly platform to deliver a smooth coworking experience—without creating administrative overload for its team.

The Solution

To address this, Fabege introduced two key workspace concepts, enabled by Flowpass:

• WAW – Work Away from Work: This exclusive benefit provides tenant employees with access to premium shared offices in Stockholm, including WAW City (Stockholm city centre), WAW Arenastaden, and WAW Hammarby Sjöstad, all located within a five-kilometre radius of central areas and well-connected by public transport. Each hub offers modern design (café‑like ambience, flexible lighting, ergonomic seating) and amenities like high-speed WiFi, meeting rooms, and relaxed work zones.

• CoW – Coworking: Flexible workplaces offering private desks, offices, or collaborative workspaces in several locations, managed by Fabege but accessible on demand for tenant teams.

Flowpass powers both offerings via:

• Simple administration of flexible and shared workspaces for both Fabege and its customers.

• A unified app for onboarding, booking, access control, automated billing, and usage insights.

• An intuitive, consumer-grade experience that makes booking and using workspaces super easy and fast.

Fabege’s view:

“Flowpass makes it easy for us to offer flexible workspaces as a natural complement to tenants' own offices. The platform supports hybrid working and streamlines the process—for both us and our tenants' employees.”
— Niclas Österberg, Head of Customer Offering, Fabege

The Result

• Tenant experience improves: Employees can book shared desks or meeting rooms in WAWs, making daily routines smoother and reducing commute stress.

• Operational simplicity: Flowpass handles the entire value chain—booking, access, billing, analytics—enabling Fabege to scale the offering across more buildings without burdening its team.

• Stronger tenant relationships: By addressing modern hybrid work needs, Fabege positions itself as a forward-thinking, tenant-centric property owner.

• Scalability and readiness: The platform is already in use across initial hubs and is being rolled out to additional properties and tenants.

• Improved community engagement: Fabege can easily share news, policies, and building updates, promote local offers, and create events like breakfasts, after-works, or workshops — fostering connection and activity across shared spaces and tenants.

About Fabege

• Industry: Commercial property owner and developer

• Region: Greater Stockholm, Sweden

• Offerings include: Flexible office concepts (WAW, CoW), NOW (move-in ready offices), RUM (meeting rooms), and VOV (dog daycare)

• Approach: “Creating the right conditions” for tenants by focusing on flexibility, simplicity, and sustainability.

• Website: fabege.se