| I recently moved to WeWork after nearly half a decade of working in plainly inferior coworking spaces. It's early days, but I wouldn't be wrong to say that this is probably the first time in my career that I haven't felt, well, "unmoored". I freelanced through college, then through grad school, then I worked for a couple of years from home before moving to coworking spaces. At all these coworking spaces, despite their regular events, I never really felt like I was a part of a broader culture. I don't know how, but WeWork manages to do that. Maybe it's because the people around me there look and act and work like me. Whereas the average coworking space worker felt like he was struggling (heck, even drowning), the people at WeWork feel like they have more time, that they've done the battle, and if they haven't won, they've at least fought enough to win some peace. I don't know if I'm there yet, but I would like to imagine I'm getting there. WeWork, with its pricing and positioning (it's 2x the rate of my last office) seems to attract people who want to buy into the vision of success, who don't want to see themselves as just "digital labor". |