I'm also a member through my company. We're in the Chinatown location but I relate to your post 100%. I could really care less about the free beer. Boozing during the day feels strange and they just switched it over to cold brew coffee; perhaps because of that.
I find it odd that people at the front desk just kind of hang out. I never got onboarding but was able to figure out everything on my own. Not that difficult.
I wish there were more tech meetups there. Instead I'm going all over DC/Northern Va. to random offices for those. Because of that I kind of feel disassociated from other people at WeWork. I go in, do my work in my fishbowl office of 6, and go home. Little interaction with others there.
I once went to a meetup at MakeOffices at Tyson's Corner which is a competing colocation workspace. It is a lot less "hip" but has things like open tables with seats and whiteboards everywhere which really appeals to me. We have to provide our own in Chinatown or rent a conference room using credits. Which we hesitate to do because you never know when you'll need it.
These spaces are expensive. If it were up to me I'd be working in a less "hip" but more functional space.
I find it odd that people at the front desk just kind of hang out. I never got onboarding but was able to figure out everything on my own. Not that difficult.
I wish there were more tech meetups there. Instead I'm going all over DC/Northern Va. to random offices for those. Because of that I kind of feel disassociated from other people at WeWork. I go in, do my work in my fishbowl office of 6, and go home. Little interaction with others there.
I once went to a meetup at MakeOffices at Tyson's Corner which is a competing colocation workspace. It is a lot less "hip" but has things like open tables with seats and whiteboards everywhere which really appeals to me. We have to provide our own in Chinatown or rent a conference room using credits. Which we hesitate to do because you never know when you'll need it.
These spaces are expensive. If it were up to me I'd be working in a less "hip" but more functional space.