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Insiders say WeWork's IT is a patchwork of cheap devices and band-aid fixes that will take millions to fix

WeWork later sued him, alleging fraudulent misrepresentation and other claims in a case the parties ultimately agreed to dismiss.

Two sources broadly estimated this is a project that could cost the company tens of millions of dollars. In other cases, the work is a result of shortcuts and fiefdoms and an inability for the IT folks to get the funding they needed, these employees say. was thought to distrust the IT department, two sources said, after Joe Fasone, an early IT employee, left the company in 2014.

Fasone, Macnish, Stage Networks, and Fasone's current company, Pilot Fiber, were also sued by a fiber optics vendor called Optical Communications Group in April 2015 which alleged it failed to pay nearly $200,000, according to the complaint. It alleged that Stage started working with Optical in January 2013 – while Fasone was still at WeWork, according to Fasone's LinkedIn profile timeline – and that Stage stopped paying Optical in February 2014.

Optical founder Brad Ickes told Business Insider that the company settled the suit with Fasone. Records for the case are sealed. Sometimes managers saved money by hiring less experienced people to install the network, these people said.

 

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