Re:Report: WeWork expected to cut 500 tech roles
by Someone on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @03:19AM
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If I understand their business correctly, way more than a few times a year. I think they have problems of the kind
”there’s a team of 5 Monday to Wednesday, one of 7 Tuesday that also have a meeting room, one of 4 Tuesday to Friday, one of 3 for the next three weeks, one of 2 that have to sit side-by-side, …. Figure out who to place where, minimizing the times we have to tell customers to move desk, maximizing the ‘cohesion’ of desks assigned to each group. Oh, and do this knowing that the problem may change at any time”
And all of that, hopefully, in a building with a high occupancy rate, all the time.
Re:Report: WeWork expected to cut 500 tech roles
by ch4s3 on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @11:17PM
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> It is hard to imagine getting a positive return on automating something they (in the long run) will do a few times a year.
That's totally fair. I think they actually do some other types of more mundane optimization that are geared towards managing the properties. I think a number of the engineers also work on the learning platform for their education services.
Binpacking is np-hard but humans still do a very good job of playing Tetris. It is hard to imagine getting a positive return on automating something they (in the long run) will do a few times a year.