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Re:WeWork Goes Bankrupt, Capping Co-Working Company's Downfall by csomar on Monday November 06, 2023 @10:56PM (#38173067)
Regus has way too much bureaucracy and are also expensive (though WeWork is also expensive but it never made sense to me).

The reality might be that there are enough co-working spaces and you can paratroop into anyone and check before hand that it meets your expectation. There is nothing to franchise.

Re:WeWork Goes Bankrupt, Capping Co-Working Company's Downfall by jamiek88 on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @02:58AM (#38174308)
The use of the word paratroup to describe mundane business travel is fricken hilarious.

What’s next? We gonna SWAT into Hartford for an insurance sales conference?

Re:WeWork Goes Bankrupt, Capping Co-Working Company's Downfall by toyg on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @04:15AM (#38174787)
I think they really wanted "parachute", which has been used in a non-threatening metaphorical way for a long time. You can be "parachuted into a meeting" or "parachuted into a project" for example.
Re:WeWork Goes Bankrupt, Capping Co-Working Company's Downfall by booleandilemma on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @01:08PM (#38180485)
Even that word sounds like something a manager who's compensating for not actually doing anything besides attending meetings would say.
Re:WeWork Goes Bankrupt, Capping Co-Working Company's Downfall by f4c39012 on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @05:37AM (#38175303)
at the end of the meeting they leave via the window
Re:WeWork Goes Bankrupt, Capping Co-Working Company's Downfall by Maken on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @06:48AM (#38175781)
The correct wording makes everything look more exciting.
Re:WeWork Goes Bankrupt, Capping Co-Working Company's Downfall by alexanderchr on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @10:08AM (#38177615)
> Regus has way too much bureaucracy

To say the least. I recently signed up for an office at a Regus location with the explicit purpose to incorporate a company there. All went well until a few weeks later when I went there to pick up post for the company and was told I was not allowed to do so until I had submitted a particular document. Only problem is that this document can only be sent to the registered company address by post. The woman in the reception literally had the document they needed in an envelope behind her desk but could not give it to me until I had submitted that same document. Zero understanding or willingness to escalate the issue to make an exception, just hiding behind "process".

In the end I managed to get in touch with someone else in the organization who realized how ridiculous the situation was and convinced them to make an exception so I could hand in the document but I'm not impressed at all by the company, to say the least.