“You’ve found product market fit when you are drowning in opportunity” - CEO of Y Combinator

I work remotely in a beautiful little town, a bumper stick describes it as Mayberry on LSD. When you look around my town, your town, and every town in between you see coffee shops littered with remote workers. Are they there for the coffee, the tables, the food, the wifi, or the camaraderie? We look at WeWork office space and wonder why anyone is paying $500 a month for a table to sit at. The answer when I reflect on my own reasons are the tables and the camaraderie.

Public spaces and parks are lagging in catering towards the remote worker audience. We have picnic tables that are uncomfortable to work at for 2 hours at a time and we have park benches that don’t provide a place to set your laptop. Finally, we have grass fields where a picnic blanket and chair don’t provide a happy medium to work at.

Parks could increase their use and bring the community together by catering towards the remote workforce. Building pedestal style standing desks, just large enough for a coffee and laptop to be placed on top is the solution. Dotting these around a park in a lilly pad fashion would encourage people to work together outdoors. No longer chained to coffee shops that want to turnover their tables.