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jeez this article and the washington post article on hiring being in a 6 yr low is really freaking me out. I'm currently in a coding boot camp while working as a waiter parttime. should I be worried?
I'm a member--through the company I work for--at the WeWork on Dupont Circle in Washington DC. I've been in a lot of coworking spaces over the years and this is certainly the largest so far. My 2nd day at work I got lost trying to remember how to get back to our 6-person office. And that's just one floor, there is a whole other floor. There are a LOT of people working there. What's really surprising to see is how man…
I'm a member--through the company I work for--at the WeWork on Dupont Circle in Washington DC. I've been in a lot of coworking spaces over the years and this is certainly the largest so far. My 2nd day at work I got lost trying to remember how to get back to our 6-person office. And that's just one floor, there is a whole other floor. There are a LOT of people working there. What's really surprising to see is how man…
Not a fan of the ad block detection. I'm probably not going to click on bloomberg links any more. I already stopped clicking fortune links. I'd appreciate if there was a weight against sites that used that personally.
How should the author of this article be compensated for writing it- if not through ads?
Advertising puts an upper limit on the value of content it's possible for you (or anyone) to see. With advertising, you are never shown content that is more valuable than the ads you're being sold to.
Other payment models allow you to buy more expensive content than your time is worth to advertisers.
Hence why very expensive content (like popular feature-length movies) are rarely paid entirely by advertising. Even with hundreds of product placements and an expensive ticket, movie theatres still have to overcharge for concessions to pay for the movie.
I guess I don't understand why any startup would pay 300-500/per desk. While I'm building I look to cut all expenses across the board and leave only the bare minimum required to function and create effectively. Can someone give an anecdote on when a shared workspace like this was beneficial to their startup's growth?
I've used a coworking space in Tokyo for approximately 2 years, including my entire tenure at Starfighter. It costs approximately $350 per month. A++ would use a coworking space again. I have visited the WeWork office that Erin and Thomas work out of in Chicago, and it is better equipped than my office and has a variety of features which make it better for doing the kind of work that I'm routinely doing, including a)…
The title of the article ironically reminds me https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/80/Labour_Isnt_W...
Innocence is injured experience just talks
Everyone seeks damages and everyone agrees
That these are 'classic symptoms of a monetary squeeze'
On ITV and BBC they talk about the curse
Philosophy is useless theology is worse
History boils over there's an economics freeze
Sociologists invent words that mean 'Industrial Disease'"
- Dire Straits, "Industrial Disease".
I'm a member--through the company I work for--at the WeWork on Dupont Circle in Washington DC. I've been in a lot of coworking spaces over the years and this is certainly the largest so far. My 2nd day at work I got lost trying to remember how to get back to our 6-person office. And that's just one floor, there is a whole other floor. There are a LOT of people working there. What's really surprising to see is how man…
I find it odd that people at the front desk just kind of hang out. I never got onboarding but was able to figure out everything on my own. Not that difficult.
I wish there were more tech meetups there. Instead I'm going all over DC/Northern Va. to random offices for those. Because of that I kind of feel disassociated from other people at WeWork. I go in, do my work in my fishbowl office of 6, and go home. Little interaction with others there.
I once went to a meetup at MakeOffices at Tyson's Corner which is a competing colocation workspace. It is a lot less "hip" but has things like open tables with seats and whiteboards everywhere which really appeals to me. We have to provide our own in Chinatown or rent a conference room using credits. Which we hesitate to do because you never know when you'll need it.
These spaces are expensive. If it were up to me I'd be working in a less "hip" but more functional space.
WeWork sounds so much like WeComply, or WeReEnslaved, or perhaps WeHaveNoSpine.
I'd much rather dwell 8 hours a day in a place run by a company called CompulsoryDungeon or ItinerantWarden or WeSquat or WeDetain or WeSlum. At least to dispose of the facade that people are always thinking happy thoughts about their employment situation.
I suppose this is as good of a place to ask as any, are there any good coworking spaces in South Bay, preferably close to Cupertino?