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by muttantt 961 days ago
Yikes. Sitting at a WeWork right now... Love it, I often have an entire floor jus to myself. Many locations are ghost towns, some have entire floors shut down.
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I have a personal WeWork subscription and love every bit of it. I travel a lot and can use any of the WeWork locations to get my work done. Far better than any cafe I would ever be able to find (obviously)

As a private, non corporate costumer, I’m sad to see them go.

“Ghost town” probably depends on your location and country. The ones here are sometimes so full that if you don’t book in advance, you can’t get a seat for on-demand

Enjoy that last bit of investor waste and excess
Wait, you enjoy the experience of going to a co-working space with no one else around? Why is that?
Not everyone like's working at home. The walk to an office is nice and gets you focused.
I lived down the road from a startup I worked for with work from home Thurs/Fri. Worked from the office every day.
I love the irony of this.
Can you explain?
I can echo the sentiment of "ghost town" in several WeWork locations from the outside, and many corporate spaces too.

I think the fundamental problem is they over-expanded too quickly and charge too much, leading to an oversupply of locations and a huge pile of leases in the debt column. They're glorified Regus and drank their own KoolAid that they were a unicorn rather than a business.

Basically, location location location.

Technology is not going to improve where people are and aren't willing to commute.

Exactly. Don't over-expand into random, dead-end, low-traffic strip malls. There is a WeWork location here that I've never seen a single occupant in because it's on a university campus between dorms and outside dining, and the lights are always off. Another Webvan/Worldcom perhaps.