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I don't know what your experience is with "open offices", but the ones I have worked in where quite loud and distracting. That isn't to say that I discount the images of people sitting elbow to elbow in coffee shops.

Coffee shops are, in my experience, quite a bit quieter then open offices and less distracting too.

I would honestly prefer going to a coffee shop to work then a "open office", but also I am really thankful that I don't have to do either.

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Indeed, and it also selects for people who prefer that environment. What I also gather from the articles is that the digital nomads are not all techies, but also people in marketing and advertising.

Honestly I worked from the coffee shop twice in my life and i would not want to do it again

There are more digital nomads not in tech.

People tend to be more mindful of noise in a coffee shop because for whatever reason some people are more inclined to not be rude in public than around people they are familiar with.

Not sure I agree it is quite, all told. https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/cafeRestaurantNoiseGenerat..., is a good example of the noise that is in a coffee shop. Catch is that it is easy to mostly tune out voices of people you don't know. Even if you can hear what they are saying. Doing the same with people you know and typically have to listen to, is much much harder.

I never said it was quiet. But I also don’t really see people doing things like chat on speaker in a coffee shop.

Right. And, not only that, because those people aren't your coworkers, you know they're not (generally) going to come up and interrupt you for any reason.

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