WeWork Is Ratcheting Up Broker Commissions to Lure New Tenants

Last September, WeWork Cos. made a show of trying to poach customers from rival co-working companies during the slower months of late summer and early fall. Employees of the co-working giant cold-called competitors’ tenants, set up games and couches outside of other shared-office spaces and offered up to a year’s free rent if they switched over.