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This may be true, but it's really a bad thing for ergonomics. While changing your position is vital, you still need a real work area. Having a proper adjustable height desk + large monitor + ergonomic seating is a good idea. Whether that goes in a corner or in a special home office, working a full day from the couch on a laptop is terrible for your health.

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A few years ago this might have been dismissed as a first world problem, but I really hope the tech scene startups dedicating more time and effort into the ergonomics of working from coffee shops in the next few years. Everyone knows what we're doing [working for too long without breaks, in unergonomic positions on laptops where the screen height is far below eye level so craning our necks] isn't great, yet everyone does it.

Isn't that what co-working spaces are setup to address. Coffeeshops are not supposedly in the business of being an office away from the office.

The same problem applies to coworking spaces, especially with floating desks.

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