I was in Chicago recently and it was odd going to cafes and seeing 95% of the patrons on zoom meetings, throwing around office buzzwords and all the rest. I saw the same in Houston. It seems to have been this way for a while but I totally missed the new culture of working in cafes — not just for an hour but for a full working day. We really are in a new working culture now, and the big cities will have to adjust or else fall behind.
A bit tangential, but for work I prefer a hard, fixed chair combined with a standing desk, over some gee-whiz SuperChair that you adjust to some ideal position. So I think I could do the cafe thing, as long as the chairs have backs.
I die if I have to sit in my kitchen table chairs for more than about 10 minutes, I don’t know what I’m doing wrong in my life but everything always hurts all the time always. My moderately priced task chair and fancy mattress are the only things that save me from clanking around painfully like a cartoon skeleton that makes xylophone noises.
