I've never worked at a WeWork, but I've worked at shared office spaces before and I never had issues with the other people renting offices. Maybe it's the clientele WeWork attracts.
Hell is a stylish shared office space
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#12| Overhead lights that switch off after a certain time if no motion is detected. I have even had this happen to me in the toilets :-)
Ah, so you're the guy on his phone in the toilet, occupying a stall for way longer than necessary, while others have to wait. Thanks, buddy.
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#13| Overhead lights that switch off after a certain time if no motion is detected. I have even had this happen to me in the toilets :-) Ah, so you're the guy on his phone in the toilet, occupying a stall for way longer than necessary, while others have to wait. Thanks, buddy.
Hey, if someone is hiding in the toilet with their phone, there's a real good chance that they need the isolation more than they need the toilet.
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#14I think open shared office spaces are an effect of high rents in Sillicon valley and major capital cities. Startups having limited capital rarther spending it on employees salaries getting more head count. Shared space is not effective for concentrating during coding.
I doubt shared spaces has been evaluated for effectiveness versus personal office. Shared spaces may be a cause of people working remote.
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#15| Overhead lights that switch off after a certain time if no motion is detected. I have even had this happen to me in the toilets :-) Ah, so you're the guy on his phone in the toilet, occupying a stall for way longer than necessary, while others have to wait. Thanks, buddy.
Hey, if someone is hiding in the toilet with their phone, there's a real good chance that they need the isolation more than they need the toilet.
Not necessarily. Some guys can’t unglue their faces from their phones long enough to use a urinal either.
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#16I was just meeting/working at the largest WeWork anywhere, in Moorgate London. I like the atmosphere, my 'but' would be noise levels. It only takes one loud/noisy neighbour and your concentration is gone. Multiples of that makes it hard to have a meeting, where you may well also be disrupting someone else's day by making too much noise.
Therefore more sound proofing is needed...
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
I work for a fully-remote company and a number of our engineers choose to work from coworking spaces like WeWork. It's entirely their decision and I guess they miss the atmosphere and social interaction of an office.
Or they have kids (or spouses) too immature to respect the sanctity of the home office during working hours.
Not everyone has a home with a dedicated space to put a home office, either. When you have to work out of your bedroom, a distinct office away from home quickly becomes useful. Not every problem with remote work and distractions is a result of personality flaws.
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#18People working from home is not a failure of modern office design. It is a failure of the core concept of the office itself. It no longer has value to offer. Originally, factories were necessary because physical colocation of workers was physically necessary. It was a sacrifice, an overhead taken on that created its own problems but which paid for them in overall benefit. Those benefits are now gone. Offices are now dead weight, an inefficiency that will be eliminated (as will be the unfortunate few barnacles who cling to their underbelly and previously solved some of the problems offices invented). Maybe not tomorrow, but eventually they will. They destroy value, and add none.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
I work for a fully-remote company and a number of our engineers choose to work from coworking spaces like WeWork. It's entirely their decision and I guess they miss the atmosphere and social interaction of an office.
Or they have kids (or spouses) too immature to respect the sanctity of the home office during working hours.
Having previously worked at home for 5 years consecutively, I can confirm that it's entirely this.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hey, if someone is hiding in the toilet with their phone, there's a real good chance that they need the isolation more than they need the toilet.
Not necessarily. Some guys can’t unglue their faces from their phones long enough to use a urinal either.
the subject matter caused me to read that completely wrong