[syntheweave]

Library environments are often better workspaces, especially study carrels at university libraries. (Stick to public universities if you don't want to be kicked out.) Cafes have more of a bustle to them that isn't good for extended "deep work" sessions.

But this article happened back in 2009, too. I remember it. I may have been part of the problem. It's a signal of an economy that is displacing and reallocating workspaces.

[gumballindie]

I am very much pro remote work - but tax payers and businesses shouldnt subsidise you. A public library or a coffee shop are not your office. Rent one, work from home, or go back to an on site job. I really dont get this entitlement - if someone came to my coffee shop, if owned one, and stood there all day working, i’d kick them out and ban them.

[jon-wood]

Ok, coffee shop I get in some cases. Libraries though? What harm is someone doing by sitting at one of many empty seats in a library and doing quiet work?

[meiraleal]

That's why you don't own a coffeeshop, it would be a miserably experience for you and for the customers. Lots of recently opened coffeeshop would love to receive those remote workers tho