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Episode: After WeWork’s collapse in the US, do shared office spaces have a future?
Description: After WeWork filed for bankruptcy in the US last month, attention is turning to the shared or flexible workspace industry. Are they doomed or do they still have a future? Since the pandemic, people’s ways of working have changed dramatically. Shared offices say they're the way forward.
WeWork, once valued close to $50 billion, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the US on 7 November. It’s a stunning fall for the office-sharing company that once promised to upend the way people went to work around the world.Â
It's an aggressive expansion in WeWork’s early years that led to the bulk of...