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Strong agree. My current company was in one for a few months before we got our own space, and it was one of the most miserable office experiences I've ever enco
by tedivm 8y ago
Strong agree. My current company was in one for a few months before we got our own space, and it was one of the most miserable office experiences I've ever encountered. Almost everything about it sucked-
* Their network was grossly misconfigured and directed traffic to the least used access point, regardless of the distance. It was a regular morning ritual for people in my office to toggle their wifi on and off repeatedly until they got a usable connection.
* Network security is also a joke- they have a simple WPA2 shared password that never changes, can easily be brute forced, and is the same at all locations. They do have a proper WPA2 Enterprise setup for their employees, which means the issue isn't their equipment and that they understand the difference between the two.
* They basically have no rules about noise. Their contract refers to the local "communities" rules, but when I asked for them I was told they didn't have any. So when there was bad behavior (which there was plenty of) there was no recourse.
* It was the noisiest office space I've ever worked in. The glass dividers between rooms and open ventilation systems meant there was no insulation from noise at all- and tenants didn't seem to care about letting their entire floor know their business.
* There were only two or three phone rooms per floor, and it was always a fight to get them. People would try and reserve them by leaving their stuff in them before a call, which just amounted to all sorts of drama. Since there weren't enough to go around people would just talk in their offices adding to the noise.
* Allowing dogs is great, but there need to be some rules. One of our neighbors just let his dog walk around the whole floor, so we had to be super careful about what we left in the trash in our unit. He would also leave his dog locked up in his unit while he was getting lunch, and the dog would bark the whole time. People would also have their dogs race from one side of the building to the other. Since none of this was against the rules there was nothing to do about it other than move out.
- wevisit 8y agoYour WeWork experience is very much dictated by location. There are fantastic locations with great staff + high quality facilities, and there are poor quality locations with bad members, bad staff and bad facilities. Disruptive behaviour _is_ against the rules and staff _should_ take action and _do_ take action if you’re in a well managed location. All their locations should be well managed enough that you can trust the brand to be consistent but unfortunately that’s not true.
- x0x0 8y agoMy experience matches. The lazy jerks running 6th and Market let one of the two elevators sit broken for months. Free 20 minute break mid-day to get downstairs and again to get back upstairs! Who doesn't want takeout to take over an hour every day! The wework folks renting 6 floors just acted like there was nothing at all they could do to get the building to have sufficient working elevators. And the noise. Hard wood floors. No carpets. Glass walls. One woman wearing heels goes clack-clack-clack up and down the hall. Bathrooms with no vent fans. Running a remodel of the floor above us while we were supposed to be working in the office. So much noise you could feel the vibrations. Same fight for phone rooms. It was utterly awful. But hey, free beer! We moved out when employees threatened to quit.
- conradfr 8y agoI only know one WeWork in Paris but I agree that the acoustics are terrible. Basically there's not soundproofing at all. Sure, everything looks great, but I would trade that for meeting rooms with less reverberation. Some American things are funny like free beers but don't you dare smoke a cigarette on the rooftop. Or the communal spaces that are designed in a way that kind of force you to have lunch at your desk.