Only Pay for the Space You Need: Why Teams Are Rightsizing with Workbar

Let’s address the elephant in the room: most companies are still overpaying for office leases that no longer match how their teams actually work.

Walk into most offices today and you’ll see it: rows of empty desks, oversized floorplans sitting half-used, and hybrid schedules turning once-bustling headquarters into ghost towns 2+ days a week. The old model of locking into a 10-year lease at 175 square feet per person is broken, and everyone knows it.

That’s why more companies are turning to rightsized workspaces.

What Is Rightsizing?

Rightsizing isn’t about cutting corners. It’s about aligning your office footprint with the way your team truly works today.

At Workbar, we’ve reimagined office space in Boston and beyond with flexible, scalable solutions that keep costs aligned with usage.

Here’s how we flip the old model:

• Private offices and enterprise suites sized for real team needs
  
  
• Flexible terms that expand or contract as your business grows, or your hybrid schedule shifts.
  
  
• No wasted square footage. You’ll never pay for empty space you don’t use.

Rightsized Workspaces in Action

• Hybrid teams: If your staff is in the office 2–3 days a week, why pay for 7? Just last week, a publicly traded company came to Workbar with this exact challenge:
  40 employees across Massachusetts.
  No one commuting more than 20 minutes.
  Everyone needing office access 3 days per week

Here’s how we solved it → See the full breakdown in Sarah’s LinkedIn post.

• More and more teams at Workbar are booking days on-demand or using our hybrid memberships, getting all the access they need without the burden of empty desks on their balance sheet.
  
  
• Scaling startups: Grow from 5 to 15 employees without the cost or hassle of relocating or renegotiating. Your space evolves as fast as your team does.
  
  
• Satellite offices: Establish a Boston base with a mix of office, coworking and meeting rooms on-demand, no oversized lease required.

By rightsizing, companies reduce overhead and redirect capital toward growth, people, and innovation.

Why It Works with Workbar

Workbar has been Boston’s original coworking network since 2009. With 11 locations across Greater Boston, 70% of the floor plan at each location is designed as activity-based neighborhoods based on noise level and engagement. We have a Cafe for social vibes, Commons for collaboration, Study for focus and Switchboard for calls and huddles.  People are not one size fits all and their workspace shouldn’t be either.

Plus, you get all the amenities of a full office campus, without carrying them on your balance sheet. Instead of locking into a decade-long lease, you get a workspace that evolves with you, whether you’re upsizing or downsizing.

The Numbers: Apples to Apples

Let’s break it down. Say you have 40 employees. A traditional broker might tell you that equates to 6,000 SF (150 SF per person).

Workbar: A dedicated suite all-in for $15,960/month → $32/SF.

Traditional office:

• Rent: $30/SF
• Utilities: $2
• Internet: $3
• Furniture: $10 (amortized over 3 years)
• Janitorial: $1.50
• Property taxes, insurance, security: $3
• Office supplies, printing, coffee, etc.: $1.25

True cost: closer to $50/SF—plus the overhead of managing it all.

Who’s running the dishwasher, ordering supplies, and fixing the copier? With Workbar, it’s included, and you’ll never face those inflated CAM charges landlords love to pass along years later.

The Bottom Line

Smarter solutions exist to give your team a place they actually want to work. With Workbar, rightsizing your office means: 

• Flexibility
• Cost savings
• A workplace that actually fits the way you work

Because having an office no longer means success, it means locking yourself into a long term liability for literally no reason at all.

Ready to rightsize your workspace? Book a tour today and see how Workbar can work for you.