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Jersey City project on skids

Maybe others would agree with me that the Kushner tie in would make it worthy of inclusion. https://jerseydigs.com/wework-abandons-one-journal-square-kushners-jersey-city-project/ --Wikipietime (talk) 23:43, 2 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

WeWork does not own any of "its" properties

"The New York-based startup does not own any of its WeWork or WeLive properties, but rather leases floors and buildings from landlords, improves the spaces, and then rents them back out."

^[1] December 21, 2016 and if so, that should be mentioned as well in the article, shouldn't it?? The question than is why do they need so much financial support? Stefanbcn (talk) 00:03, 30 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Should we be changing the name of this page to We Company?

In light of the looming IPO that will garner this page a ton of interest, it looks like they changed the name of the company to We Company back in January. I'm asking for opinions as to the moving of this page. Whoisjohngalt (talk) 14:42, 6 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I wonder the same thing. Legally it's the name. The page should reflect the change. Post-move it could read: The We Company (formerly known as WeWork and still referred to by that name).... — Mainly 19:32, 18 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ https://qz.com/866845/wework-is-testing-how-much-people-will-pay-to-live-in-its-experimental-co-living-space-on-wall-street/ is that still true?

Pay 25% of company's value to get CEO to leave?

In September 2019 WeWork paid its CEO US$1,700,000,000 to quit his job. The total value of the company might be 8 billion, so they gave 1/4 of the value to this one individual. I added this to the lead.

Lots of media sources reported this as a strange and inexplicable occurrence.

Farrell, Maureen; Brown, Eliot (22 October 2019). "SoftBank to Boost Stake in WeWork in Deal That Cuts Most Ties With Neumann". WSJ.

I suppose somehow this made sense in some business context, but to typical people this is hard to understand. The media coverage of this makes this fact appropriate for the lead. Blue Rasberry (talk) 15:05, 29 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I can't read the content of the WSJ article due to paywall, is your date for when the payment was made accurate? It wasn't reported until well into October. —DIYeditor (talk) 22:39, 29 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

It might not be. The date was already in the article and I was sloppy about adding the payout date. All of the actions should probably be separate sentences - when moving around a billion dollars that triggers multiple media narratives and there is no reason to combine them. Blue Rasberry (talk) 23:59, 29 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Connected contributor information

This article was tagged by Helpingcleanup in September 2020 for having a connected contributor. Normally, substantiating information is posted on the talk page for future editors, but in this case the only related COI info I can find is the comment in the flagging edit's summary pointing interested readers to a sock puppet investigation Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Yoodaba. Without more info, it's hard to tell which edits or editor triggered this flag - I read the investigation and only see WeWork mentioned once, next to blocked user Humblephi, who doesn't seem to have edited this article. Also, the IP address listed as a connected contributor at the top of the talk page hasn't made any edits in over five years. Please identify who is making suspicious edits so an unconnected editor can review and remove the COI tag. Cheers! TimTempleton ^(talk) ^(cont) 20:36, 21 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know what the rationale for the tag is (if there is one), but the user who tagged the article has been blocked. Marquardtika (talk) 20:39, 21 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Marquardtika: Good catch. I missed that. I'll untag unless someone can come up with info that suggests otherwise. TimTempleton ^(talk) ^(cont) 20:53, 21 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds good, thanks. Marquardtika (talk) 01:06, 22 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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No update needed?

I thought they were close to bankruptcy? Or worse? Arminden (talk) 18:23, 18 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Camelcase?

The Company uses lowercase, Wikipedia follows its guideline and uppercases it, but why is the article written in camelcase? --84.132.144.110 (talk) 17:52, 29 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Fix the article please.

In all the edit warring going on in the last few weeks, this article is NOT LONGER an article. It is now just a massive list of bullet points.

We can see it is mainly an article, with prose paragraphs in this edit.
This edit did NOT just "restore updates with controversy in the lead this time", it TOTALLY changed the way the article is laid out.

It needs restoring to an article of prose, or it's just "a list of things that happened to WeWork" Chaosdruid (talk) 02:31, 2 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Notable locations

Can this section not be a table that includes city, country of the locations? 2A02:1810:1D20:CA00:E563:3BA4:FF7C:A02D (talk) 10:06, 9 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

New logo

Looks like WeWork tweaked their logo a bit. Any way we can update that? I'd do it but it might be a better idea for someone else who knows the guidelines for logo upload. 207.194.2.34 (talk) 16:56, 30 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

[1] ttps://qz.com/866845/wework-is-testing-how-much-people-will-pay-to-live-in-its-experimental-co-living-space-on-wall-street/ is that still true?

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