well, apparently they had a great ladies' lounge!
Posted on 09/02/2022 11:43:45 PM PDT by Angelino97
When the Wing first opened its doors in Flatiron in 2016 as a pioneering, women-only coworking space, it became a phenomenon. Founders Audrey Gelman and Lauren Kassan raised more than $100 million from investors like WeWork and Airbnb. At its peak, it had 11 locations...
But things took a sudden turn the following year. In June 2020, Gelman stepped down after employees protested her leadership and alleged mistreatment of black and brown staffers. It was the beginning of the end.
Earlier this week, Wing members received an email announcing that the club’s six remaining locations would be closing due to “increasing global economic challenges” and “the backdrop of the Covid pandemic.” For many former members, the news came as no surprise — with some feeling it was even good riddance.
“It was a gossipy very toxic environment for my team,” Kanessa Tixe, a Wing member in 2018 and the founder of marketing and PR entertainment company TS Collective, told The Post. “It was all a PR machine. You can hire all the black, and Spanish and white women you want, but if you’re not setting up a culture appropriately, it is going to crumble. I think it became too much of a hype of female empowerment.”
The strict rules at the club, which cost members $185 to $200 per month, didn’t always foster #GirlBoss success, especially for those using it as a coworking space daily. ...
Tixe said she felt tension from employees who frequently told her to lower her voice while on calls and in meetings in her office space. She was eventually asked to surrender her membership after a staffer said she offended one of the employees for using the term “home girl” in a light-hearted and friendly context.
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Its pretty common. There are many variations of this kind of business. It is generally meant to be rented office space that provides the usual “big” office services like conference rooms, private rooms, storage space, parking, central city location, etc. Also a convenient non-home address.
A good deal for some people like independent manufacturers reps, contract project management, etc., who need to look legit but dont want to spring for a long lease on real office space.
This one seems to have been light on private space and heavy on the cafe. And the all woman thing of course.
Picture of Clinton in the bathroom? Tacky!
I had the same experience. I read the article twice but couldn't figure out what this business was. I gather it is some kind of male-free social club? Or an alcohol-free bar?
Thanks for posting this feel good story.
Makes me smile first thing in the morning to hear about snowflakes failing and crying!
Golly, a group of women turn to gossip and destructive infighting. Who could have imagined that?
Be brave amigo...
Much drama
Stick 2 of them on the bridge of a navy ship in the sea of Japan and see what happens.
“but if you’re not setting up a culture appropriately, it is going to crumble.”
Basically true of any group. It’s not based on whether people in the group are male, female, white, black, hispanic,.. yada, yada, yada,... (IMO)
Go woke, go broke.
The Wing, a women only workspace. What the heck is the business? It’s just a workspace, what does that mean?
The article says there were originally 11 locations for this ‘club’. 11 locations for women to have a workspace. But doing what??
Sounds to me like this womyn received a bunch of woke funding to open a hangout, and then the money ran out. I don’t see much evidence of actual work being done, or even a description of the work at this ‘workspace’.
When I was a teacher, every school I worked at had a clique trying to overthrow the principal and get him/her replaced. Didn’t matter if the principal was black, female, gay, or what. There was always a clique that was out to get the principal. And that clique always consisted of fat women and gay guys.
Yes, it’s called a hardware lab. Poof, no women.
After months of working remotely, one of the first days back in the office I found my virtual meeting software wouldn't auto-dial me. I had to manually enter the phone number and umpteen digit password. I uncorked a Yosemite Sam-like blue storm out loud...luckily, nobody was in the office.
If you do come back to the office, take a few days to acclimatize.
“My office” is in Connecticut, and I live outside Philly.
No office for me ever.
I do make sure I get out and interact with people everyday so I don’t get weird as hell.
Meow.
At first I thought the shot had psychological side effects, but I think the year of isolation also made people mental.
For some pockets of society, they may never recover. I was in a Northeast city this week, where it's move-in time for colleges. I was ASTOUNDED at the number of kidz wearing masks, inside AND OUTSIDE.
From the end result, nether did they.
Just like WeWork, which turned out to be nothing but a Ponzi scheme. How these entities were supposed to turn profit is a mystery.
well, apparently they had a great ladies' lounge!
A hundred million in investment by supposedly serious business people for a thing the main point of which was “women only”? Putting this together with the car companies that are ending their ICE production; is everybody going nuts? Is there no blindness woke can’t induce?
Never heard of it
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