How Hybrid and Shared Offices Help Startups Avoid the Worst of a Layoff

Stuart Gentle Publisher at Onrec10 Jul 2026|News archiveHow Hybrid and Shared Offices Help Startups Avoid the Worst of a LayoffAsk any HR lead who has run a redundancy round this year and they'll tell you the office lease was the part nobody warned them about. The headcount decision gets made in a boardroom in an afternoon. The five-year lease signed two years earlier takes months to unwind, if it unwinds at all. You end up paying for forty desks while twelve people pack their things, and the em