WeWork’s Back Is Against a Wall

Re:WeWork’s Back Is Against a Wall by logfromblammo on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @02:32PM (#20998564)

This may be a generational thing, but I prefer my workplaces to be for work, and my playgrounds to be for play, without blurring the lines between them.

Leaving work at 5 pm is the goal. Clock out. Go. Be free.

If I want a social club, it will be a separate organization. People staying at the office after hours is indicative of a toxic work culture (unless those folks always come in just as late on the other end of the workday). An effort to design a workplace as having the appearance of fun strikes me as disingenuous, at best, and at worst is a signal that the company is, as David Brent put it, "'aving a larf", at the expense of the investors.

Do not make your offices fun. Levity and gravitas can co-exist, but at work, the latter should have the greater weight.

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Re:WeWork’s Back Is Against a Wall by paulmooreparks on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @01:27AM (#21002587)

I've upvoted more comments (including this one) among these responses than I have for the entire year previously. I think this goes to part of what creeps me out about WeWork, generally.

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Re:WeWork’s Back Is Against a Wall by burpsnard on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @03:37AM (#21003124)

I suspect they are selling to founders who are rich enough that they want to startup mostly for the social interaction

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