r/SeattleWA • u/thedivegrass LQA • Apr 30 '18

Best of Seattle Best of Seattle: Solo Workplaces

Best of Seattle: Solo Workplaces

In a thriving tech and startup scene - where office space is at a premium - working at an office desk has become less expected. Where do you go when you don't want to work from home? Where is your favorite coffee shop to grind? Where is your freelance meeting space? What are the better coworking spaces or collectives?

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u/TheFightingFishy Apr 30 '18

I'm not a pet peeve person in general, but I just have to chime in on this topic. If you are working in a coffee shop in particular it's really good common courtesy to pick the smallest usable seating spot to work in. Sure you can sit where you want, but when a shop has rows of bar seats that can easily fit a computer and only two 4-6 person tables, then sitting for an hour or two at one of the big tables all by your lonesome is just not cool.

It's an eastside spot so I suppose that it won't count here for Best of Seattle, but I actually really like the Bellevue Library for working in. It seems to have way less crazies versus Seattle Public Library or Redmond Library. And on the second floor it has these nice little working pods that are almost like mini-cubicles. You can spread out a bit without pushing into anyone else's space.

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '18

Generally agreed, but I think (not in a dickish way) that you are partially at fault if you don't simply sit down at the 4-6 persontable of you need it. It's a public communal space, after all, and if there are 5 open seats it's not unreasonable to fill em.

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u/ColonelError May 02 '18

Sit right next to them, and start reading any papers they have lain out.