Re: [Coworking] Infuriating article on the high premiums charged by coworking spaces in Bloomberg

2015-02-07 Thread Jerome Chang
There are some coworking spaces that are either publicly subsidized or operate like a cooperative to be able to accommodate the local, perhaps depressed, economy. However, economics 101 says there is no free lunch, so costs are costs, so an owner earning $$ is likely faced with $$ costs. That

[Coworking] Infuriating article on the high premiums charged by coworking spaces in Bloomberg

2015-02-04 Thread Will Bennis, Locus Workspace
I have never been so pissed by an article on coworking: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-02/co-working-spaces-an-expensive-cure-for-loneliness Can't believe Bloomberg would publish this kind of financial analysis (treating the only cost of business as the lease cost). My ongoing

Re: [Coworking] Infuriating article on the high premiums charged by coworking spaces in Bloomberg

2015-02-04 Thread Anca Mosoiu
A business-focused news site should really do a better job of hiring writers who know how business works and operates. This article is ill-informed and misleading, but, hey, it's gotten us to talk about and click on it. On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 1:31 AM, Will Bennis, Locus Workspace