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Yeah, in my company’s “main city” we have traditional offices with long term leases that we furnish and operate ourselves. Our headcount in these offices is pr
by yashap 7y ago
Yeah, in my company’s “main city” we have traditional offices with long term leases that we furnish and operate ourselves. Our headcount in these offices is pretty stable, so it makes sense. But we’ve got a bunch of decent sized, sales/marketing focused international offices, and they’re mostly WeWorks. They’re great!
These international sales offices can quickly spring up and grow, but also quickly scale down or close. For satellite offices that can easily get way bigger OR way smaller over the next year, the flexibility WeWork provides, and the fact that they handle furnishing and operating the offices is huge. Plus they’re beautiful offices with free beer and whatnot, so (most) people enjoy working in them.
WeWork clearly has terrible corporate governance, and we’ll see if they can keep the product great while moving towards profitability. But for now they do have a really nice product for a lot of companies (and some individuals). They’re like AWS for offices - flexibility and “managed by someone else” is almost as nice for offices as it is for servers.