I have visited We Work after hours for meet ups but never during the day. Could someone describe what the staff does or what they should do? Isn't it substantially a real estate company, so is it all leasing/sales plus some facilities work?
At West Loop, there are two front desks, each staffed by 1-2 people; one at reception, one on the second floor, which I assume is there for member services? Then there are 3-4 at-large workers in black WeWork t-shirts taking out trash, delivering mail? No, wait, no they don't deliver anything. I think they just take out the trash.
Then there's a night crew that comes in and cleans the building.
In the wework at Market and 6, there's a bunch of staff too. Though they have I think 8 or 10 floors of the building.
Of course, who knows what the staff do all day. The bathroom on our floor regularly runs out of paper towels or has overflowing garbage cans.
Also, fwiw, I can't disrecommend WeWork strongly enough.
* They let one of the two elevators in our building sit out of service for 6 weeks last year. I hope you like a 15+ minute wait to get in or out of the building. Instead of being aggressive with the building owners to get it fixed, the smarmy wework pricks did nothing.
* They also can't get the door locks on our door to work reliably. Now the door just sits open all day.
* The hvac doesn't work. More than half the staff on my floor used blankets last winter, and even I found it quite cold, and I grew up in the north. Now that it's summer, it's regularly low 80s in the office.
* The offices themselves are loud overpriced echo boxes.
We finally got a real office and put in our notice this month. I was ready to quit to get out of WeWork.
Wework flagship for two years. I realized when there the tenants were mostly pretty bad startups who were just blowing through VC and would never survive. Saw Weworks valuation to continue to skyrocket -- all they do is sublease! Ridiculous, and they'll lose more than half their tenants as soon as VC dries up.
The "offices" are pretty useless. You hear everyone around you all the time, and you have no privacy for conversations or phone calls. The modern decor just means lots of noise too - god forbid someone on your floor wear high heels, you'll hear them walking up and down the hardwood halls all day.
