WeWork offices used to look like a cliché of start-up “fun” work, now one Sydney member said it is like a “low tier university library,” after cost-cutting.
WeWork offices used to look like a cliché of start-up “fun” work, but now its Australian offices are “dead as” according to tenants, who said the company’s cost-cutting has seen the beer taps run dry, and the printers turned off.warned in early AugustWeWork promised start-ups and other companies the “cool office” vibe, but its tenants say things have now deteriorated.
WeWork’s Australian sites show how those efforts to rein in costs have weighed on members’ experience of the once-vaunted office provider, where the perks have dried up.“The one I’m at is kinda grim. It feels like a low tier university library,” one Sydney CBD WeWork member said, speaking on condition of anonymity because their employer does not permit them to speak to the media. “The co-working floor is 10 per cent utilised, if that.
The member said most printers had been removed, air conditioning was frequently broken and coffee machines rarely worked. Beer taps only work from 2pm to 5pm after WeWork moved its staffed hours by one hour earlier each day in 2022.But the issues are not universal. WeWork members in Melbourne described a functional, if uninspiring set of locations. “I think this region is pretty well resourced, but I hear it’s very much not the case elsewhere,” one said.
“Our members remain our top priority and we are resolutely focused on delivering for them for the long term,” the spokesman said. But WeWork’s occupancy rate is much lower than that of a rival co-working space operator called The Commons, which has 11 locations in Sydney and Melbourne andWhile co-working spaces began with Mr Neumann’s vision of a shared community, most now function largely as a subleasing service.
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