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Weird. I thought we all this work from home and giving up offices it would make sense to use wework the times you do get together. At least that is what we ar

Weird. I thought we all this work from home and giving up offices it would make sense to use wework the times you do get together. At least that is what we are doing.

chrisseaton 4y ago
I haven't used WeWork myself, but I thought it wasn't really set up for booking an office for just a few days - I thought it was a little longer term than that. Is that not the case?
- easton 4y ago
  They have both, although the single day rental usually is restricted to the open areas and conference rooms. I used it for a few days a couple months ago in DC, it was nice to get out of the Airbnb I was in. But also relatively cheap ($19 a day with no commitment), and it looks like that location has closed since :(
- michaelt 4y ago
  As I understand it, WeWork has a range of options, starting with "on-demand hot desks, almost like working in a coffee shop" and going up to "all the office facilities a 100-person startup needs"
lovehashbrowns 4y ago
It’s what I wanted to do! I was going to stay with my parents for 6 months and then get a shared office at one of these spaces, not wework but a competitor. It was going to be so great, I thought. The terms really didn’t make it fun, though. I think it was 3x monthly rent as a security deposit plus the first month’s rent. Sounds reasonable, except it was going to take something like 60 days for the security deposit to be returned. How convenient that my check for the deposit takes days but theirs takes 60 days. All I wanted was to stay in Chicago until the real winter hit. :( I also don’t get the insanity of charging 3x rent as a security deposit for a shared office. It’s a square box with a chair and table. How do I cause $1,800 worth of damage to that?!
- bombcar 4y ago
  They’re afraid you’re realize it was a shit deal and stop paying rent I suspect. Then they can keep the deposit and try to rent it out again. The economics of all this works great on paper but very badly in real life.
- Inhibit 4y ago
  That smacks of the same model as a gym membership. Sucker in a large number of marginal users and make it as onerous and hard to leave as possible under law to retain them as long as possible... that's the actual business model.
paulgb 4y ago
I think that's exactly what's happened, but it's led to demand of drop-in rather than permanent offices (WeWork does both). We have an office in one of the 40 locations being closed, and it's mostly an office location (I'm not sure if you can even book a day pass there). My guess is that they will move to expand drop-in and bookable spaces, and reduce the number of private offices. Already I've seen some private offices turned into bookable meeting rooms.

Weird. I thought we all this work from home and giving up offices it would make sense to use wework the times you do get together. At least that is what we are doing.

chrisseaton 4y ago

I haven't used WeWork myself, but I thought it wasn't really set up for booking an office for just a few days - I thought it was a little longer term than that. Is that not the case?

easton 4y ago
They have both, although the single day rental usually is restricted to the open areas and conference rooms. I used it for a few days a couple months ago in DC, it was nice to get out of the Airbnb I was in. But also relatively cheap ($19 a day with no commitment), and it looks like that location has closed since :(
michaelt 4y ago
As I understand it, WeWork has a range of options, starting with "on-demand hot desks, almost like working in a coffee shop" and going up to "all the office facilities a 100-person startup needs"

lovehashbrowns 4y ago

It’s what I wanted to do! I was going to stay with my parents for 6 months and then get a shared office at one of these spaces, not wework but a competitor. It was going to be so great, I thought. The terms really didn’t make it fun, though. I think it was 3x monthly rent as a security deposit plus the first month’s rent. Sounds reasonable, except it was going to take something like 60 days for the security deposit to be returned. How convenient that my check for the deposit takes days but theirs takes 60 days. All I wanted was to stay in Chicago until the real winter hit. :( I also don’t get the insanity of charging 3x rent as a security deposit for a shared office. It’s a square box with a chair and table. How do I cause $1,800 worth of damage to that?!

bombcar 4y ago
They’re afraid you’re realize it was a shit deal and stop paying rent I suspect. Then they can keep the deposit and try to rent it out again. The economics of all this works great on paper but very badly in real life.
Inhibit 4y ago
That smacks of the same model as a gym membership. Sucker in a large number of marginal users and make it as onerous and hard to leave as possible under law to retain them as long as possible... that's the actual business model.

paulgb 4y ago

I think that's exactly what's happened, but it's led to demand of drop-in rather than permanent offices (WeWork does both). We have an office in one of the 40 locations being closed, and it's mostly an office location (I'm not sure if you can even book a day pass there). My guess is that they will move to expand drop-in and bookable spaces, and reduce the number of private offices. Already I've seen some private offices turned into bookable meeting rooms.