Cancel the WeWork IPO, there’s a new flexible workplace in town

I’d have loved to have been in the management meeting when a bright spark from the Fuller Smith & Turner (LON: FSTA) operations team suggested the firm add a flexible co-working space to one of its city venues. I can only imagine the conversation went something like this: “If WeWork can install beer taps and serve food, why can’t we provide a place for people to work?” The old idiom of not mixing business with pleasure is increasingly being ignored in the modern world of flexible working. London listed pub group Fullers has spent £2m renovating The Chamberlain Hotel near…