So, I heard of WeWork from someone on Twitter, and it sounded interesting, so I decided to investigate. And indeed it is interesting! Basically, they are an office rental space company that wants to be more than the mundane title would suggest, and they are in fact much more! For example, they use 3D scanning for all of their office spaces they move into and setup.
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20190206/https://www.wework.com/blog/posts/using-lasers-to-capture-the-tiniest-details-of-a-workspace
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20190206/https://www.wework.com/blog/posts/how-someone-really-bad-at-drawing-creates-stunning-art
Wow, interesting! WeWork and Rent the Runway are partnering. I guess Rent the Runway is also something to watch for the future too.
20190207/https://www.wework.com/blog/posts/entrepreneurs-say-the-right-clothes-help-them-demand-respect
Alas, now I keep reading further for more of their blog articles.
Researching the impact of stairs on a community, these are best when they are visible from the elevators and near go-to community locations such as kitchens.
20190207/https://www.wework.com/blog/posts/to-create-a-community-start-with-stairs
AI to layout desks in an office, more accurate than humans. Without this, laying out desks in an office is a very long and mundane design chore.
20190207/https://www.wework.com/blog/posts/this-algorithm-might-design-your-next-office
WeWork office artistic, creative design exceeds typical school design, a boon to kids visiting the office. So hence came the idea to setup a school inside WeWork office spaces with a more creative agenda, and also encouraging WeWork entrepreneurial adult members to learn from their creative kids.
20190207/https://www.wework.com/blog/posts/learning-from-kids-when-we-take-them-to-work
WeWork on ways to attract more women to tech jobs, and their own success stories with increasing the number of women in their Flatiron tech school.
20190207/https://www.wework.com/blog/posts/3-ways-to-attract-more-women-to-tech-jobs
Very interesting story about how WeWork handled a cleaning complaint problem in one of their Brazil facilities. They setup a safe space with custodial staff in question, and upon learning that nearly half of them could not read, they decided to have a kindergarten teacher with early reading experience teach them. The alternative not taken would be to fire the illiterate. Pretty soon, there were virtually no more cleanliness complaints in the facility, and the custodial staff who recently learned to read was confident in their interactions with the members.
20190207/https://www.wework.com/blog/posts/wework’s-nataly-bonato-turns-an-issue-into-a-teaching-moment
Find out how many conference rooms an office needs with machine learning. There are some interesting subtle facts like smaller companies needing more meeting rooms per person than larger companies.
https://www.wework.com/blog/posts/designing-with-machine-learning
This blog article really goes into detail about how WeWork wants to make building ownership more quantitative and data-driven. They are already doing a lot of things that I have been dreaming of, but couldn’t really do due to… well, lack of interest. Some of the people around me want to keep doing some things the old way, so my systems cannot scale as quickly as a purpose-built system for people interested in more modern ways of living.
20190207/https://www.wework.com/blog/posts/product-research-at-wework
This is WeWork’s first blog post on the subject of 3D scanning and 360 degree photography in what they call “Reality Capture.”
20190207/https://www.wework.com/blog/posts/why-reality-capture-matters-at-wework
WeWork open sources some of their building management software. Alas, it is written as Autodesk extensions, so it’s hard to see how that could be more mainstream.
20190207/https://www.wework.com/blog/posts/wework-open-sources-case-apps
WeWork predicts that indoor beacons will become more relevant… well, after a crash where they were being predominantly used for marketing purposes. But maybe, sometime soon in the future, indoor beacons will serve a purpose similar to the application use of GPS outdoors.
20190207/https://www.wework.com/blog/posts/how-beacons-will-change-architecture
A UX designer who joined WeWork and told no one, because thay wanted to secretly explore before joining.
20190207/https://www.wework.com/blog/posts/i-joined-wework
WeWork only has blog articles back to the beginning of the year 2015. Indeed they are a young company.