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Re:WeWork’s Adam Neumann Steps Down as CEO by jen20 on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @04:33PM (#21064329)
The advantage to me with Spaces (which I believe is owned by Regus) is that I can do guest co-working in any city they happen to be present - and since I travel extensively, the bigger the network the better, as far as I'm concerned.

Sadly WeWork do not appear to offer this option (or didn't last time I looked).

Re:WeWork’s Adam Neumann Steps Down as CEO by ageitgey on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @05:01PM (#21064580)
WeWork offers this if you sign up for an American Express Platinum Business card and take advantage of the free year of WeWork benefit. I can (and do!) book any WeWork in the world any day - all for $0.

Yes, that's right, the free AMEX WeWork plan is significantly better than any WeWork plan you can buy. That's start-up logic for you. I stopped paying WeWork after 1-2 years as a paying customer because their free plan was better.

I live in London and I can choose from any of 36 WeWork London locations for tomorrow along with anywhere else in the world. It's nice living off of VC money.

Re:WeWork’s Adam Neumann Steps Down as CEO by Wowfunhappy on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @09:35PM (#21066704)
What will you do after your free year is up?
Re:WeWork’s Adam Neumann Steps Down as CEO by stevarino on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @11:44PM (#21067404)
Same thing that he would have to do otherwise: shop the market for the best offer.

... Assuming any true competition is still in business in a year.

Re:WeWork’s Adam Neumann Steps Down as CEO by fro0116 on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @01:54AM (#21068053)
Wow... this is actually quite tempting for $595!

Are there any limits to how much you can make use of this offer or the kinds of spaces available?

_Surely_ they won't let you just camp an entire private office in SF all year round when it's supposed to cost upwards of $1000 per month?

Re:WeWork’s Adam Neumann Steps Down as CEO by ageitgey on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @02:50AM (#21068364)
You can use it everyday as your main office, but you are limited to the hot desk areas and you can't use private offices.
Re:WeWork’s Adam Neumann Steps Down as CEO by jen20 on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @04:02AM (#21068743)
Interesting - does this mean you have a _UK issued_ Amex Platinum Business? If so, I've not spotted this, despite having had one for years - and I need to rectify this!

Many of the benefits only apply to US-issued cards.

Re:WeWork’s Adam Neumann Steps Down as CEO by ageitgey on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @04:18AM (#21068826)
I have a US-issued card.
Re:WeWork’s Adam Neumann Steps Down as CEO by sbr464 on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @01:10AM (#21067792)
I may be misunderstanding, but one of our offices is at a WeWork. I’m listed on the team and we have a ton of monthly credits that I’ll use while traveling in random cities, it’s convenient to have a place to work from.
Re:WeWork’s Adam Neumann Steps Down as CEO by goatinaboat on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @03:59AM (#21068728)
Every business-traveller orientated hotel like Marriott or Hilton has a “business centre” in which you can rent anything from a small meeting room by the hour to a space for a 500-person conference for a few days, all fully serviced and catered by the hotel too.
Re:WeWork’s Adam Neumann Steps Down as CEO by jen20 on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @04:01AM (#21068739)
I usually stay at Marriotts, and the 'business centres' are often woeful - if not 'closed for renovation'. Not only that, but renting a meeting room for a couple of hours costs the same as a Spaces membership for a month.
Re:WeWork’s Adam Neumann Steps Down as CEO by tcc8 on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @06:44PM (#21065442)
i think you are looking for wework global access https://www.wework.com/workspace/on-demand/global-access
Re:WeWork’s Adam Neumann Steps Down as CEO by zilchers on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @08:24PM (#21066260)
I wanted to sign up for this as an individual, but you need to be at least a 10 person company, so I couldn’t. No idea why they’d have that restriction
Re:WeWork’s Adam Neumann Steps Down as CEO by jen20 on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @04:02AM (#21068746)
That's the hurdle I hit with it last time I looked.
Re:WeWork’s Adam Neumann Steps Down as CEO by szczepano on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @11:39AM (#21071794)
I was looking for that option too as I plan to travel for some time while working remotely and all I found is https://copass.org/plans but didn't tried it yet.

Is someone can write more about it it would be nice.