WeWork has long been a place for small startups and solo entrepreneurs to grab a desk and get to work, all with the flexibility of month-to-month payment. But today has signed on a rather huge client in the form of Microsoft.
WeWork and Microsoft are starting the “City as a Campus” partnership, which gives 300 of MSFT’s global sales and marketing team total access to all of WeWork’s Manhattan locations, communities and services.
This is interesting considering that Microsoft has a New York office, out of which its sales team could work.
The idea here is that sales people, in particular, work and sell in a very mobile way, taking numerous client meetings across the city in a single day. Microsoft’s GM of Office Marketing Matt Donovan believes that this will increase productivity and efficiency in the Global sales and marketing team, letting them touch down in any of WeWork’s locations to get some work done in between meetings.