Most people spend more time comparing phone plans than they spend reading a workspace contract. Then they discover, usually in month four, that the meeting room they assumed was free costs AED 150 an hour, that the address supports one visa instead of three, or that leaving early forfeits the entire deposit. Dubai has hundreds of business centres and coworking operators, and the good ones are genuinely...
August 2026
Two founders sign up for workspace in Dubai on the same day. Both pay roughly the same amount. Both get a business address and a smart looking certificate. Three weeks later, one of them has a trade licence, an Ejari registered tenancy, an approved corporate bank account and a residence visa in progress. The other is stuck, because the product they bought was never going to support any of that. The...