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Not if you regularly have clients come around for meetings or colleagues for a chat. WeWork provides a good enough atmosphere to work and socialise with work related people (it's not just the desk you're paying for).
Half my business comes from other companies in the wework network. I also regularly contract out work to people in the network.
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It's called working from home, and it's a lot more than 20% less.
Not if you regularly have clients come around for meetings or colleagues for a chat. WeWork provides a good enough atmosphere to work and socialise with work related people (it's not just the desk you're paying for).
These have all been in Palo Alto, so perhaps its acceptability is location-specific. Each year I have some MBA students from Switzerland visit and last year it was in my home -- apparently some of them were weirded out by that. (By this year's visit we'd grown and so they came to a boring office).
What are people looking for in a coworking space? What does your space provide you beyond a desk, Wi-Fi, and coffee? Whenever I've researched spaces nearby, I've treated proximity, price, and hours as the three biggest selling points for a small business, work-from-home type like myself. But I guess that's only a small segment of the overall market. I guess if you're a bigger business maybe you'd get comfortable with…
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Half my business comes from other companies in the wework network. I also regularly contract out work to people in the network.
So you're saying you've built a business 50% dependent on someone else's business. That's fragile.
Many people, including the author, skip the more interesting point in favor of the lazy critique: WeWork is not being valued by its investors as an office rental company. It's made the case that it is a business services marketplace, selling vendors' insurance and HR and legal and servers to as large as swath of the small business sector as it can grab with its fancy offices. It wants to own the app store for enterpr…
Honestly, as someone dealing with small businesses, selling insurance and HR services to tiny startups is not a $20B business. Selling those to large companies is, but that market is already saturated.
Many people, including the author, skip the more interesting point in favor of the lazy critique: WeWork is not being valued by its investors as an office rental company. It's made the case that it is a business services marketplace, selling vendors' insurance and HR and legal and servers to as large as swath of the small business sector as it can grab with its fancy offices. It wants to own the app store for enterpr…
You get free beer, free coffee, bathrooms, an office, meeting rooms, phone booths with doors that close that you can also go work in whenever you want to be isolated, you can be there 24 hours a day, you have a keycard that works at all hours, and best of all, you're surrounded by startups and companies doing the same things as you. Meaning you can chat up your neighbors and meet some interesting people. Chance encounters like that are rare at a traditional office. People also throw events on the upper floors all the time, which gets you free lunch at a minimum.
The above experience costs $2,200/mo to get you an office with plenty of room for four people.
I don't know. I hope they never go out of business. It's the best environment I've ever been in.
Did I mention you're surrounded by empty rooms with doors that close? I mean hello, you get a door! It closes!
When you have the option to go work someplace with a door that shuts, it removes all the stress of not having it, even if you never actually use it.
What are people looking for in a coworking space? What does your space provide you beyond a desk, Wi-Fi, and coffee? Whenever I've researched spaces nearby, I've treated proximity, price, and hours as the three biggest selling points for a small business, work-from-home type like myself. But I guess that's only a small segment of the overall market. I guess if you're a bigger business maybe you'd get comfortable with…
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Not if you regularly have clients come around for meetings or colleagues for a chat. WeWork provides a good enough atmosphere to work and socialise with work related people (it's not just the desk you're paying for).
No, it's the "I feel special" you're paying for. Meetings, you can go to the client, you can rent a meeting space by the hour. Hell, I've made a multi million pound deal in a train station waiting room. Colleagues, one can communicate without meatspace. Socialising - that's not work. That's for the pub.
Many people, including the author, skip the more interesting point in favor of the lazy critique: WeWork is not being valued by its investors as an office rental company. It's made the case that it is a business services marketplace, selling vendors' insurance and HR and legal and servers to as large as swath of the small business sector as it can grab with its fancy offices. It wants to own the app store for enterpr…
Not sure why people are negative about the core idea of WeWork. You get free beer, free coffee, bathrooms, an office, meeting rooms, phone booths with doors that close that you can also go work in whenever you want to be isolated, you can be there 24 hours a day, you have a keycard that works at all hours, and best of all, you're surrounded by startups and companies doing the same things as you. Meaning you can chat…
Many people, including the author, skip the more interesting point in favor of the lazy critique: WeWork is not being valued by its investors as an office rental company. It's made the case that it is a business services marketplace, selling vendors' insurance and HR and legal and servers to as large as swath of the small business sector as it can grab with its fancy offices. It wants to own the app store for enterpr…
Similar idea: free coffee, shared printer, power/internet access/etc.
It made sense for two people in one room. When it got to three or four in a bigger space, it made more sense to lease a dedicated two room office and setup our own internet connection, etc.