Co-working spaces have never looked less enticing
Photo: The Good Brigade/Getty Images A few years ago, I had a pretty good scam going that got me a co-working space for a cut rate. I paid $35 a month for an app that gave me access to various co-working spaces that relied on an honor system for users logging their hours — sometimes I logged my hours accurately, sometimes I did not, and sometimes I “forgot” to log them altogether.
When I was paying to co-work, I was essentially paying to sit in a quiet room, which wasn’t even always quiet — most days, start-up meetings took place at neighboring tables and tech bros paced nearby, speaking loudly into their phones. I went because it was not my apartment, the library was too far away, and the coffee shops were too crowded.
As their names suggest, these places are straightforwardly utilitarian — they are providing you a nice place to put your laptop, so you can work in peace. While you can have your pick of locations and aesthetics among co-working spaces, there’s no amenities race, no attempt to make co-working into anything more than work. There isn’t even free beer anymore. This is all in stark contrast to the previous co-working boom.
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