Untethered to cubicles, freelancers, contract employees, and solo business owners are seeking out alternative desk arrangements. After all, you have to change out of your pajamas sometime, and can only sit in a coffee shop nursing a single cup for so long before the baristas give you the side-eye.
Many free-range employees head to co-working spaces, fully stocked drop-in environments that cater to professionals who lack a brick-and-mortar workplace.
But there’s one problem: other people. Just like in an old-school office environment, you have to contend with co-workers’ sneezes and absurdly loud chewing — and they’re subjected to your habits, too.
