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You don't go to the center of town, you go substantially less far to the local WeWork office, because it makes sense that WeWork in your neighborhood, rather than your company.

As someone who's worked from home for ~3 years now (and with much better coffee and Internet), it's isolating, and I basically don't stand up from my home office for ~16 hours some days, since it's also where I happen to spend at least some of my free time.

Screw "third place", I don't even have a "second place". I live in Bentonville, AR and I cannot wait for the WeWork that was announced here to get built.



But I can't see them actually putting offices at neighborhoods. I've looked at Warsaw and London and the locations are rather central.


What they have currently != what they'll have in the future.


Have they said this anywhere?


Not directly, but I kind of assumed every business wanted to be the "third place" these days, so I extrapolated that to mean that WeWork wants to replace your "second place" with their offices, provide value by saving your commute, and then consume your "third place" entirely as well.

A ton of articles articles talk sideways at this idea, here are a couple (the second link is the most direct "answer" to your question but it's all interesting):

https://www.citylab.com/equity/2019/03/wework-smart-cities-m...

https://www.curbed.com/2019/4/29/18523156/weworks-economic-i...

I'm not trying to assert "this is the truth", sorry if that's how I seemed. It's just my layman's take on the situation.




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