There’s a new app that tells you how to cowork in NYC, but not how to be a decent human

Maybe you should ask the businesses before you give away their wifi passwords. via screenshot One of the singular phenomena of the modern age has been the exponential growth of the freelance workforce. Over the past decade they’ve come to command the vote, dominate the cultural narrative, and are now having a bigger effect on the city’s physical landscape than ever. Art studios are losing their spaces to co-working complexes as the sliver of NYC’s work-from-home professional pie grows ever larger. Coffee shops are becoming library-like spaces full of glowing Macs. And now, there’s even a new app called Workfrom that’ll show you “the best places in the city” where you can work remotely. Oh, and it also gives you all their wifi passwords. Workfrom is a directory of coffee shops, co-working spaces, public library branches and the occasional Whole Foods. The directory includes places like the Greene Grape Annex in Fort Greene which, as you may know, doesn’t exactly like you treating them as your… Read More

There’s a new app that tells you how to cowork in NYC, but not how to be a decent human : Brokelyn