Critics say WeWork is an overvalued real-estate play • Hacker News Board

Re: Critics say WeWork is an overvalued real-estate play

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Post by fastball » Fri, Oct 20, 2017, 7:32 PM UTC

pram wrote: post #112

gonehome wrote: post #52

A little off topic, but I think it'd be cool if you could pay someone (a hotel chain? Airbnb?) a monthly 'rent' to live in any of their locations. The locations are guaranteed to have highspeed internet and some easy standardized way to move between them. This would be really cool for remote work since you could live everywhere and nowhere without having the overhead of having to do all the planning yourself.

WeWork actually has this, believe it or not. https://www.welive.com/

  Studios starting at $3050 p/m.

Seems like a lot.

Re: Critics say WeWork is an overvalued real-estate play

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Post by T2_t2 » Fri, Oct 20, 2017, 8:18 PM UTC

zaidf wrote: post #123

baxtr wrote: post #91

I worked in a wework Office for about a year. At first I thought the environment was great, I loved the free beer and the community. However, once we moved out, I realized how much more productive we were in our own office. We had - more space - less noise, in terms of sound and visually (you see everybody passing by through the glass and have to force yourself not to look at them. For a while we had some posters up,…

less noise, in terms of sound and visually (you see everybody passing by through the glass and have to force yourself not to look at them. For a while we had some posters up, but we had to remove them since wework’s company policy doesn’t like that) This has been by number one issue with WeWork and I've always been surprised that more devs who work at WeWork aren't bothered by this.

I have been to one in Sydney and one on London. I gotta tellya, Sydney was unworkable (too many people talking and wanting to talk to you) but London was a dream. The English don't chat, and there is zero eye contact.

From this, I theorise that it only really works in countries that are not outgoing.

Re: Critics say WeWork is an overvalued real-estate play

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Post by EGreg » Fri, Oct 20, 2017, 8:32 PM UTC

bobbles wrote: post #163

EGreg wrote: post #151

I think WeWork is great. But I think commutes are a time suck. How about the new trend of Officeless (TM) companies, connecting entirely online, working asynchronously and taking breaks to go to the beach and socialize with friends instead of random people. Your talent pool can suddenly come from all over the world, and costs cheaper while making employees happier.

Only really works if all of your friends work in the same environment though right

They can work in other fields.