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WeWork CEO Says Least Engaged Employees Enjoy Working from Home

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WeWork faces bankruptcy, especially if remote work stays the default. It's hardly a surprise that anyone running a beleaguered company like that would attempt to cast doubt on remote work.

I don't think it will save them. Do you?

Their business model has the most to lose if this trend continues. So it is understandable why the ceo would take such creative liberties to paint the picture.

Does it? It feels to me like it stands to gain a good bit. There are a lot more people remote working either part or full time, and many remote workers like to use coworking spaces. Their potential customer base is probably higher than it was pre-pandemic.

I believe WeWork makes most of their money colocating teams and companies, not off hot-desk remote workers.

I'm kind of surprised the company isn't insolvent already given that it was one enormous bet on the value of inner city commercial real estate.

As a remote individual contributor / manager / VP, I can assure you that this claim is both meritless and desperate.

Imma make my big money for years without being engaged for shit, much to the big bad "important" CEOs' chagrin. All in my underwear.

Office space seller says offices are important. More news at 10.

This is bullshit regardless, but especially funny coming from a remote coworking space company

I can see management thinking that this is true for people working "bullshit jobs" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs).

WeWork CEO wishes it was true.

Sure the CEO has a vested interest in this being true.

But didn’t Yahoo eliminate remote work when they checked the VPN logs and a huge percent of remote workers hadn’t logged in weeks?

If work somehow kept being done without anyone logging in, why is that a problem? This is an argument against hiring too many people, not against remote working.

If we went permanent work from home, I wouldn’t mind knowing I have access to nice working spaces available in every major city in the world.

Is there any clarity on how the global tax structure is aligned with this working model?

E.g. I could imagine a nomad development team that wants its members in every time zone so you get 24/7 improvement/support.

So the CEO of a company whos buisness model is providing office space for profit, says lesser employees enjoy working from home? TL;DR I'm low on salt atm.

I meant least engaged with management ... we really need to look at how companies are run in the new WFH era and why there is still a middle management layer.

What happened to the last WeWork CEO?

Short WeWork?

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