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- \r\n Commute-friendly covers parking, bike storage, or EV charging, and is the most common category among flex spaces. Austin leads: 66% of its flex spaces have at least one such amenity, rising to 100% in the case of WeWork locations. \r\n <\/li>\r\n
- \r\n Sports & Recreation, covering everything from gyms to wellness rooms to outdoor space, is most common in Boston (51%), Washington, D.C. (42%), and San Francisco (32%). Every WeWork location in all three cities offers at least one amenity from this category.\r\n <\/li>\r\n
- \r\n Parent Support (dedicated parent rooms, nursing rooms) is an emerging amenity category. At WeWork, 100% of Austin, Los Angeles, and Boston locations have a parent room.\r\n <\/li>\r\n
- \r\n Pet-friendly space differs more from city to city than almost any other amenity category. London leads with 29% of flex spaces welcoming pets, while at WeWork, 93% of London locations welcome dogs. It is important to note that all WeWork locations across the United States are service dog friendly. \r\n <\/li>\r\n
- \r\n Premium Food & Beverage (espresso bar, barista, food hall, and related facilities) is the most evenly spread experiential amenity. Boston leads at 35%, while WeWork\u2019s locations in the same city reach 83%.\r\n <\/li>\r\n <\/ul>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\n\n\n
Premium amenities have become one of the ways flexible workspaces compete. With hybrid work settled in and return-to-office policies solidified, employees want the office to be worth the trip. Today\u2019s workday is experience-driven; whether that is a well designed wellness room, an office that welcomes Fido, or a coffee made by an on-site barista. The industry has a name for this shift in perspective: the flight to experience<\/a>, where a workspace is judged by access to premium amenities and services that enhance the everyday workday experience. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe \u2018flight to experience\u2019 has real staying power; it\u2019s a new baseline, not a trend. In a hybrid world, the office has to earn its place in an employee\u2019s schedule by offering value, comfort, and an elevated daily experience that truly makes the trip worth it,<\/em>\u201d said Ebbie Wisecarver, Chief Product and Design Officer at WeWork. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
This report reads that shift through ten of WeWork\u2019s largest markets, across the US, Canada, and the UK. For each category, we rank those markets by how widely an amenity appears across all flex space locations, the clearest signal of what a market has come to expect, and then we break it down further to show WeWork\u2019s offerings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The New Baseline: What the Market Now Takes for Granted<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Some amenities have become common across flex space \u2014 so much so that they are assumed. Fast Wi-Fi, bookable meeting rooms, ergonomic furniture, and a stocked kitchen are the baseline every provider is expected to meet. WeWork’s own baseline adds business-class printing, premium drinks (like seltzer, kombucha, and in some international locations, beer on tap), state-of-the-art phone booths, and an on-site community team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The more telling question is what sits above the baseline. We grouped the premium amenities into five categories:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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- Sports & Recreation<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Parent Support<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Pet-friendly<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Premium Food & Beverage<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Commute-friendly<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
The first four categories are about experience: the amenities you most look forward to when coming into the office. The fifth, commute-friendly, is practical: the simple logistics of getting there. The sections that follow highlight the four experiential categories first, then the practical one, tracing where each set of amenities is most common across the markets we covered and how widely WeWork offers it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nSports & Recreation: Boston Leads at 51% of Its Flex Spaces<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Sports & Recreation covers wellness rooms, fitness centers, outdoor terraces, recreational games, pools, even karaoke. It is most common in Boston, where 51% of flex spaces offer something from this category, followed by Washington, D.C. (42%), London (36%), Los Angeles (35%), and San Francisco (32%).<\/strong> Only the amenities within the Commute-friendly category are offered more widely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Notably, these markets share a common lifestyle thread. They are home to professionals who tend to be younger and health-conscious, people for whom exercise and wellbeing are already woven into their day-to-day life \u2014 for example, a morning run or a mid-day fitness class. When people build movement into their routine, they expect the office to make room for it, too, which is why wellness and recreation spaces are so widely offered in these cities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
WeWork exceeds the baseline in all of these markets. Every one of its locations in Boston, Washington, D.C., and San Francisco offers recreation or wellness space, with London close behind at 96% and Los Angeles at 83%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
- Parent Support<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Sports & Recreation<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n