Not all offices are in office buildings these days. But, heck, if you read Concentrate regularly, you already knew that.
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A single laptop user might sit at a table meant for four people and surf the Web for hours. The more daring might even sneak in their own food and drinks.
Offering free wireless Internet access, Ann Arbor's coffee shops and cafes can sometimes look like surrogate offices or libraries, with more customers staring intently at laptop screens than talking with a friend or drinking a coffee.
Laptop users say the attraction is simple: They're trying to study or work and encounter fewer distractions there - no stressed-out colleagues, no televisions to switch on, and no family members to interrupt.
"I'm pretty productive when I'm working in an environment like this, just because of the fewer distractions," said Tracy Barsheff, who was studying in Espresso Royale on State Street Friday.
Read the rest of the story here and when Concentrate's sister publication Metromode reported on this phenomenon two years ago here.
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