IWG is accelerating its Asia-Pacific growth with five new locations in the Philippines and a debut that signals where flexible workspace is heading next.
International Workplace Group (IWG) has announced the opening of five new flexible workspace locations in the Philippines, capping a busy period of regional expansion and bringing the total count of IWG sites in the country to 76 by the end of 2026. The announcement, made on 31 July, also marks a significant milestone: the Philippines debut of Humanly, IWG’s healthcare-focused workspace brand a concept designed specifically for medical and wellness professionals rather than the typical knowledge worker.
The expansion reflects both the growing demand for hybrid work in Southeast Asia and a broader shift in how operators think about flexible workspace: not just as a product for tech firms and startups, but as infrastructure for a much wider range of industries.
Five new locations across cebu, Taguig and Aurora
The five new sites span three distinct geographic areas, illustrating IWG’s strategy of reaching both established business districts and emerging locations.
In Cebu, two new Regus centres are opening: HQ Plaza Helena and Regus Island Central Mactan, strengthening the brand’s footprint in one of the Philippines’ fastest-growing commercial hubs. In Taguig the home of Bonifacio Global City and a major financial district, Regus Savya Financial Center and Regus Alveo Park Triangle Tower bring premium workspace closer to a growing cluster of multinational companies.
The fifth location is the headline: Humanly at the APECO Super Health Center in Aurora. This marks the first Humanly site in the country.
Humanly: flexible workspace built for healthcare
While Regus and Spaces are familiar names in the coworking world, Humanly is a relatively newer addition to IWG’s portfolio and a notably different one.
Rather than offering hot desks and private offices, Humanly locations are purpose-designed for healthcare and wellness professionals. That means treatment rooms, therapy suites, and consultation spaces built to meet the specific operational and compliance needs of doctors, physiotherapists, psychologists, and other practitioners.
The concept speaks to an underserved corner of the flex market. Healthcare professionals often need dedicated, appropriately equipped space that standard coworking offices simply cannot provide. By adapting the flexible workspace model to fit their requirements, IWG is opening up a new segment entirely one with a clear, recurring demand and limited competition from traditional operators.
The choice of Aurora as the launch location is itself significant. The APECO (Aurora Pacific Economic Zone and Freeport Authority) area has seen sustained government investment, and placing a healthcare-focused workspace there signals IWG’s interest in participating in the region’s infrastructure development, not just serving its existing business centres.
Hybrid work is fuelling the growth
IWG’s expansion does not happen in a vacuum. The company cites strong and sustained demand for flexible working across the Philippines as the primary driver of its growth strategy.
According to IWG, 82% of organisations in the Philippines have now adopted hybrid working arrangements a figure that compares favourably with many Western markets. Roughly one in three of those organisations also plans to invest further in flexible workspace capacity over the coming year.
These numbers suggest that hybrid work in the Philippines is no longer an experiment or a pandemic-era holdover; it has become a structural feature of how businesses operate. For IWG, that translates directly into a pipeline of demand for more locations, more formats, and more specialist offerings of which Humanly is the clearest current example.
The company’s stated target of 76 Philippine locations by December 2026 underlines the confidence it places in the market. That trajectory has been consistent: IWG has been steadily expanding in Asia-Pacific even as some operators have pulled back in more saturated Western markets.
What this means for the flex market
IWG’s Philippines move is worth watching for a few reasons beyond the headline numbers.
First, it demonstrates that the flexible workspace market is maturing into something broader than coworking. The launch of Humanly in the Philippines is a reminder that flexible, short-term, professional space is useful to a huge range of industries and that the most forward-thinking operators are actively building formats to serve them.
Second, the geographic spread of the new openings from a financial district in Taguig to an economic zone in Aurora shows that flex space is no longer exclusively an urban, CBD phenomenon. Demand is growing in secondary cities and specialist districts, and operators who move first tend to lock in long-term advantages.
Third, the expansion reinforces IWG’s franchise and partnership model as a scalable engine for growth. Most of IWG’s new locations are opened through local partners rather than direct capital expenditure, which allows the company to expand quickly without the balance-sheet risk of a traditional real estate company.
For anyone tracking the flex market in Asia-Pacific or watching where the next wave of innovation in the workspace industry is coming from these five locations in the Philippines are a useful data point.
Flexible workspace is no longer just an office-market product. It is becoming professional infrastructure for an ever-wider range of workers, businesses, and industries. Humanly in Aurora is a small but telling step in that direction.
