Regus owner snaps up WeWork 場所／位置s in London and New York
By Muvija M
July 19 (Reuters) - Office space provider IWG is 始める，決める to open eight new 株d-office centres in 場所s 含むing London and New York, five of which were 以前 operated by its U.S.-based 競争相手 WeWork, as it 捜し出すs to 会合，会う the growing need for 柔軟な work spaces.
Two of the former WeWork 所有物／資産／財産s are 位置を示すd in Kensington, London, and Park Avenue South, New York, with three more in the Indonesian 資本／首都, Jakarta.
The other 場所／位置s are in Chicago, Philadelphia, and opposite Penn 駅／配置する in New York, によれば a 声明 排他的に seen by Reuters.
IWC, owner of the Spaces and Regus brands, has said 需要・要求する for such 場所／位置s was up 14% in June from pre-pandemic levels. It will 投資する in refurbishing the 所有物／資産／財産s.
IWG, which has its 長，率いる office in Switzerland and more than 3,300 場所s across 110 countries, 追加するd over 100 centres in the first half of 2021 through its franchise partners, three times as many as in the first half of 2020.
After a year in which the coronavirus pandemic shut office buildings and 軍隊d people to work from home, companies around the world are 減ずるing their office space with an 注目する，もくろむ on trimming costs.
"The pandemic has 加速するd the 転換 to the hybrid model by 10 years ... There has been a 早い change," said 示す Dixon, the boss of IWG.
"Office spaces in cities like New York and London are going to 縮む in a 地位，任命する-pandemic world as some people move 支援する to towns and countryside. It is hard to quantify by how much."
From U.S. tech 巨大（な）s アマゾン and Microsoft to banks such as 基準 借り切る／憲章d, 会社／堅いs have 発表するd 計画（する）s to 可決する・採択する some form of 柔軟な working model, typically having staff work from home for part of the week.
Dixon said there would be more change over the next three years as companies' 賃貸し（する）s end.
"We are seeing a continuous 利益／興味 in 郊外の and countryside 場所s as people 避ける the 減刑する／通勤する and other hassle s of a city life." (報告（する）／憶測ing by Muvija M in Bengaluru; Editing by Keith Weir and Kevin Liffey)
