Offices Find New Ways to Compete With Hotels For Remote Workers

“There is no such thing as a new idea,” Mark Twain famously said, as we find ourselves back to square one: it turns out that offices are, in fact, pretty convenient places for people to work in. The twist is they’re about to be used more frequently by non-employees. This is the latest trend one co-working space platform is discovering — and it could prove to be a relief for landlords across the globe, particularly in cities like New York which is losing out on $12 billion because of remote work. Booking platform AndCo is seeing new behaviors emerge. During the pandemic it saw members head to coffee shops, restaurants and even bars to work. But with those venues no longer delivering the customer experience needed, the UK startup switched its focus to adding more hotel lobbies and spaces — but more recently growing numbers of remote working teams want to return to offices. So much so that it launched a new platform, Skift can exclusively reveal, called NO HQ to meet that dem