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| That said, looking through the current market volatility, we continue to believe in the quality of our hospitality services, the strength of our brand and the inexorable growth in share of coworking and flexible space relative to traditional office |
| Our value proposition includes our global scale and design and quality of our spaces, our best-in-class hospitality services and our ability to deliver a full suite of complementary services, more than just space to enterprises of any size |
| We'll provide our members with a better online experience and further reduce operating expenses and shorten the time to market for other innovative offerings we have in the pipeline |
| One of the ways we're operating more efficiently and simultaneously delivering more value to our members is through our growing technology partnership with Yardi |
| This application allows enterprises and their employees to plan their in-office schedules efficiently and improve the ROI on our members' investments with us |
| Given the challenging market environment, it can be easy to forget that we continue to occupy a unique and important position in the markets we serve |
| During the second quarter, our levered free cash flow loss improved from Q1, but was still higher than the Company anticipated early this year |
| I am honored to lead this team, a community staff in Chicago and the rest of our 3,700 employees around the world to navigate our company in this dynamic environment |
| Second quarter revenues increased $29 million or 4% year-over-year despite slightly lower sequential occupancy driven by growth in self and termination fees and all Access revenues |
| In our experience, members and employees get differentiated significant value from their workspace when they feel welcomed, energized like part of a network or community |
| So as always, we offer employers flexibility in time and space and geography as their needs change, and we offer their employees something unique and valuable |
| From my seat at the front desk, I witnessed firsthand how my colleagues support our members, provide solutions and create a truly extraordinary environment |
| And SG&A expenses decreased $39 million in the second quarter as we continue to find the ways to operate more efficiently |
| Along with the rest of our team, I'm laser-focused on addressing this issue, which is critical to our current success and future profitable growth |
| We continued to reduce our location operating costs by $11 million year-over-year by exiting unprofitable buildings and reducing headcount |
| Have a good day |
| Good morning, everyone |
| Second, in speaking directly with our members and partners, understanding better how they use our services, where we excel and where opportunities for improvement continue to exist |
| Our preopening expenses decreased by $30 million year-over-year as we focus our growth toward a more asset-light strategy |
| This evaluation is a technical accounting determination that, importantly, does not consider the potential mitigating effect of a range of operating plans we're currently evaluating, including targeted investments to reduce member churn, drive new desk sales and increase occupancy, further reduce rent and tenancy expenses and continue to drive internal operating efficiency and control SG&A expenses |
| It also seems clear to us that how employees perceive the space they work in has become an important part of the overall value proposition in a way that it never really has before |
| As you may recall, we worked with Yardi to successfully launch WeWork Workplace last year |
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| Although we reported revenue for the second quarter inside guidance, we were just over $20 million wide of the low end of guidance for adjusted EBITDA, and levered free cash flow was significantly below plan |
| Demand continues to be negatively impacted by high interest rates, relatively high inflation, slower-than-anticipated return to office trends and venture capital formation at a multiyear level |
| The commercial office environment has become more challenging since the start of the year |
| Despite this dramatic progress, cash rent and tenancy continues to be our primary challenge and obstacle to profitability and free cash flow |
| and Canada continue to lag the rest of our consolidated global portfolio by over 1,000 basis points, both because return to office continues to lag here in the U.S |
| and Canada, as we say, remains sluggish at about 67%, down from 69% |
| And although we don't compete directly with traditional leased office, we certainly aren't immune to multi-decade high vacancy rates and weak pricing in that market |
| As we all know, market conditions in commercial office continue to be difficult |
| Increased competition from other flexible space providers, a dearth of available funding for venture in early-stage growth companies and relatively high interest rates inflation |
| and because we are materially oversupplied in a few key markets |
| Fewer and fewer companies from mature large-cap businesses to start-ups are willing to enter into long-term leases for geographically fixed spaces when they have relatively poor visibility on how that space may be used or valued by their employees |
| Notably, we added this quarter important disclosure to our 10-Q regarding our ability to continue as a going concern |
| In the U.S., in the second quarter, we just hit 30-year low occupancy rates |
| Occupancy increased 2 percentage points year-over-year but declined 1 percentage point sequentially as member churn increased beyond the rate of new desk sales |
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