Remote Work from Places that Aren't Starbucks or the Library

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Weird for sure but hospitals have good wifi and places to get away and work. Wouldn't want to do it again but good to know.

Probably depends on the hospital. I've spent way too much time at VHC lately and have struggled to find quiet places to work and plug in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Weird for sure but hospitals have good wifi and places to get away and work. Wouldn't want to do it again but good to know.

Probably depends on the hospital. I've spent way too much time at VHC lately and have struggled to find quiet places to work and plug in.

+1 to "depends on the hospital." Children's in DC seems to have some setting in its WiFi that prevents emails from coming in or going out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How is home distracting but a public restaurant isn't? Please don't take up a table for over an hour, it's so rude.

+1 Seriously. They make it difficult to get a seat at busy places (like Tatte) and then give you death glares for daring to have a conversation over lunch with a friend; meanwhile they’ve finished their one cup of coffee hours ago. So obnoxious

Exactly!

[Anonymous]

Where I live (not DMV) some of the museums have great public spaces for working.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A desk at a We Work is very cheap...I think the cheapest plans can be like $160/month.

There are also many We Work competitors these days.

Yep, there are a bunch of Regus locations in Fairfax County and they are cheap if you don't get a dedicated office.

[Anonymous]

Panera

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would do a rotation of various libraries. But in a pinch, I was at Fair Oaks Mall in the middle of the workday the other day (because I was on leave) and it was so dead quiet that I was thinking it would be a nice change of scenery from my home office.

I was in a nice mall in a nice part of Barranquilla, Colombia in March an noticed they had a big corner of the upper level reserved for remote working and it seemed to be pretty busy. Never thought a mall would be a popular place to work from home but what do I know.

[Anonymous]

Try your local town hall or similar building.

[Anonymous]

I work from bars

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Panera

And join their Sip Club! Great deal.

[Anonymous]

I pick up a drink from Panera every school day and sometimes on the way home too. I see the same people there every day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A desk at a We Work is very cheap...I think the cheapest plans can be like $160/month.

There are also many We Work competitors these days.

$2k per year is cheap?

[Anonymous]

Upstairs at Wegmans

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A desk at a We Work is very cheap...I think the cheapest plans can be like $160/month.

There are also many We Work competitors these days.

Yep, there are a bunch of Regus locations in Fairfax County and they are cheap if you don't get a dedicated office.

In my opinion, Regus always was better than WeWork.

[Anonymous]

A mall. Air conditioning, white noise.