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Regus has been selling that for ages and ages. They have more locations in more cities in more countries, too. If they're not as well-known, I'm guessing it's b
by mumblemumble 3y ago
Regus has been selling that for ages and ages. They have more locations in more cities in more countries, too. If they're not as well-known, I'm guessing it's because they're just a boring old real estate company and not a SoftBank-fueled moon rocket.
- ecshafer 3y agoDoes Regus sell that? I just did a search for a coworking space on Regus website and it matches my earlier experience: they want me to get a quote and talk 1:1 with an advisor. Wework I can just pay for a 1 day pass at a location purely online. So its so much easier to use when traveling or if you need adhoc coworking.
- dazc 3y agoYou can do that with Regus. I wouldn't recommend personally since receiving random invoices for places I have never visited.
- mumblemumble 3y agoI guess it's a little hard to find from their home page because the top search widget thingy is for longer-term reservations, but if you scroll down and choose the "coworking" tab, there's a tile for coworking day passes with a link you can click for the reservation page.
- aodin 3y agoYes, there are hot desk memberships on their coworking page [1], including single day purchases. They're underneath the giant "get a quote" call to action, however, which is indicative of their priorities. [1] https://www.regus.com/en-us/coworking https://www.regus.com/en-us/coworking
- karlshea 3y agoWell, they’re also not bankrupt so maybe those are the right priorities. Edit: haha j/k they also went bankrupt.
- ashtonbaker 3y agoI went to one of these this summer and had to create a full corporate account online before the people at the front desk could sell me a day pass, and I was bombarded with emails for months afterwards about signing up the rest of my "company"
- vel0city 3y agoI went to a wework for the first time today and they technically set up a whole corporate account for just me to be there for one day to try it out.
- offices 3y agoToday? Was this disaster tourism?
- mbreese 3y agoThey are in chapter 11, which is aimed at reorganizing a company. They hope to still be a business going forward. For customers, it should still be relatively the same service. I expect some amenities to change, but you should still be able to rent a desk (for at least the near term).
- vel0city 3y agoAs mbreeze stated, this location is probably going to continue operating as some form of coworking space even if it gets spun off of wework, which it may or it may not. There were a lot of people there, I imagine that location is probably cash flow positive. It would make sense for someone to operate it, as there was clearly demand at least at that location.
- mianos 3y agoThat is the good part about We-Work. Regus is very old school. The one I went into earlier in the year seemed to have been fitted out with plastic wood grain panels from the 70s. That's said, Regus is still running and WeWork is in Chapter 11. Plastic wood grain is fine for the price and the lack of bullshit add-ons like an extra stool.
- keiferski 3y agoI can only speak for Regus locations in Europe, but all of the ones I’ve visited have been new and modern, if a little office-drone boring. But frankly after being at a WeWork beforehand, I prefer the Regus blandness to the fake enthusiasm and brightly colored furniture.
- pclmulqdq 3y agoCompetition from WeWork seems to have gotten Regus to up their game. Like you said, it's still bland and corporate, but the quality of the spaces is pretty good.
- keiferski 3y agoThey also seem to have a relationship with a nicer service called Spaces, but I’m not sure what the connection is exactly. Spaces seemed like a direct WeWork competitor to me.
- jnwatson 3y agoThe parent company of Regus owns Spaces.
- timthelion 3y agoI work with a company that has a spaces subscription and their location in Prague has so many weird rules and ways to squeese money out of both the workers and the company that I find the office to be downright unpleasant. You're not allowed to eat food or bring your own drinks into the common areas because they want you to pay for their overpriced coffee and sandwitches. The coworking space closes at 5 and you have to leave. It opens at 8:30 and you can't enter before then. They will randomly close half the common area because someone rented it for a party. In the private office there are no power outlets at the desk. There is exactly one hookup place in the middle of the floor and we have extention cables everywhere. Despite paying (way above market) for a private office only a limited number of preaproved people are allowed to use it, anyone extra has to have a spaces subscription too. Despite allegedly renting the private office we are not allowed to use our own furnature, or electronics, or place anything on the walls (we can, but this would be paid extra). Overall, it looks nice and has a nice view but once you see the rulebook it becomes an extremely unwelcoming experience.
- KingOfCoders 3y agoIf you you're a startup and need several rooms, you usually got a quote from WeWork too. But yes experience for solos might be different.
- soared 3y agoRegus has a hip brand called "spaces" that is more wework-eqsue, but you can still use all the regus locations too.
- johndevor 3y agoThe Regus app allows you to book a 1 day without talking to anyone.
- shever73 3y agoThat doesn't match my experience in Ireland. I select co-working spaces or meeting rooms, add options and checkout. I've never spoken to a Regus advisor.
- godzillabrennus 3y agoRegus in Chicago used to offer a phone number for tenants then lock that number to your lease and never let you port it away. That soured me to them. I’ll never use them again. I’m glad nimble startup companies like CoHatch have figured out how to open locations in Malls in the Midwest.
- nunez 3y agoThere are other local coworking spaces that operate like WeWork (day/week passes obtainable online) but are not affiliated with Regus.
- rahimnathwani 3y agoI googled 'regus buy day pass' and the first result was: https://www.regus.com/en-us/membership https://www.regus.com/en-us/membership
- csomar 3y agoRegus has way too much bureaucracy and are also expensive (though WeWork is also expensive but it never made sense to me). The reality might be that there are enough co-working spaces and you can paratroop into anyone and check before hand that it meets your expectation. There is nothing to franchise.
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- jamiek88 3y agoThe use of the word paratroup to describe mundane business travel is fricken hilarious. What’s next? We gonna SWAT into Hartford for an insurance sales conference?
- toyg 3y agoI think they really wanted "parachute", which has been used in a non-threatening metaphorical way for a long time. You can be "parachuted into a meeting" or "parachuted into a project" for example.
- booleandilemma 3y agoEven that word sounds like something a manager who's compensating for not actually doing anything besides attending meetings would say.
- f4c39012 3y agoat the end of the meeting they leave via the window
- Maken 3y agoThe correct wording makes everything look more exciting.
- alexanderchr 3y ago> Regus has way too much bureaucracy To say the least. I recently signed up for an office at a Regus location with the explicit purpose to incorporate a company there. All went well until a few weeks later when I went there to pick up post for the company and was told I was not allowed to do so until I had submitted a particular document. Only problem is that this document can only be sent to the registered company address by post. The woman in the reception literally had the document they needed in an envelope behind her desk but could not give it to me until I had submitted that same document. Zero understanding or willingness to escalate the issue to make an exception, just hiding behind "process". In the end I managed to get in touch with someone else in the organization who realized how ridiculous the situation was and convinced them to make an exception so I could hand in the document but I'm not impressed at all by the company, to say the least.
- chrischen 3y agoBoring old real estate company with nearly the identical WeWork business model that also filed a strategic bankruptcy to shed its leases a couple years earlier.
- szundi 3y agoThis is the reason
- MattGaiser 3y agoRegus doesn’t let you just book space on demand from what I could tell (admittedly years ago). Tried to book an office for my sister’s exam in a city with Regus but no WeWork and had to get a hotel room instead as we couldn’t figure out how to actually book any space. There was just a fill out a form and we will call you option.
- mulmen 3y agoThis is the most hilarious part to me. This is a VC’s forum, right? So, ostensibly they offer connections to the right organizational entities. But then a startup darling forms that offers a boring thing that already exists and it gets labeled as innovative. So, what were the WeWork VCs thinking? Did they expect failure or were they just wrong?
- rad_gruchalski 3y agoThere's also cowork AG in Germany.
- vantassell 3y agoRegus has actually taken over a few WeWork leases in my town. Seems like they're picking up inventory for pennies on the dollar.