WeWork Doesn’t Lead to Deep Work

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Writing in the New York Times: Much will be written in the coming weeks about how WeWork failed investors and employees. As urban rents crept up and the economy reached full employment over the last decade, American offices got more and more stuffed. On average, workers now get about 194 square feet of office space per person, down about 8 percent since 2009, according to a report by the real estate firm Cushman & Wakefield. This dovetails with a hot button of mine: Great engineers need to have an environment optimized around performing deep work. When the entire value to a company’s customer is in the intellectual output of the professionals on the team, dense, distracting, and loud offices are ridiculously counterproductive.

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