Welcome to WE

Open LinkedIn on any given morning and you'll find an expert with the answer.

AI will fix your productivity. Return-to-office will fix your culture. Four-day weeks will fix retention. Cutting junior roles will fix your margins. There's always a single lever to pull, a clean solution, a confident voice telling you this one thing will sort it.

The problem is, workplaces don't work like that.

A hiring decision changes your customer experience. A property decision changes your talent pipeline. An AI decision changes your team's mental health. A flexible working policy changes your commercial property exposure. Everything touches everything else, and the consequences that matter most are almost always the ones nobody saw coming.

I spend my days building products in the workplace and productivity space, and I kept running into the same frustration. The AI crowd only talks about AI. The HR crowd only talks about people. The property analysts only talk about buildings. The wellness lot only talk about burnout. Everyone's covering their corner. Nobody's standing back and looking at the whole picture.

That's the gap Workplace Economies exists to fill.

The workplace is an economy. It has supply and demand, bubbles and corrections, winners and losers. When you pull one thread, a dozen others move with it. The pandemic proved that beyond any doubt: one change (people working from home) cascaded through resignations, property markets, office mandates, hiring freezes, AI adoption, and a national health crisis. Every link in that chain was covered by someone. None of them were covered together.

We'll publish long-form articles grounded in data. We'll host podcasts that challenge the arguments. And we'll write posts like this one (shorter, more personal, the kind of thing you'd say to a colleague over a coffee).

If you read a headline and immediately think "yes, but what happens next?" then you're exactly who this is for.