{"id":18145,"date":"2025-03-17T08:37:29","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T07:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/17\/laughter-not-laptops-cafe-culture-fights-back-against-keyboard-invaders\/"},"modified":"2025-03-17T08:37:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T07:37:29","slug":"laughter-not-laptops-cafe-culture-fights-back-against-keyboard-invaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/17\/laughter-not-laptops-cafe-culture-fights-back-against-keyboard-invaders\/","title":{"rendered":"Laughter not laptops: cafe culture fights back against keyboard invaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cafe owners seeking convivial atmosphere as well as better turnover are starting to deter remote workers<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo the Coffee-house, and there all the house full of the discourse of the great fire,\u201d wrote Samuel Pepys of his trip to a 17th-century cafe \u2013 then the social nerve centre of London\u2019s gossiping elite.<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward to the 21st century and the chattering classes have been replaced with the clattering classes \u2013 remote workers busily hammering away on their laptop keyboards and shouting on video calls to be heard over the mechanical grinding of coffee beans.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/mar\/17\/laughter-not-laptops-cafe-culture-fights-back-against-keyboard-invaders\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/cd5320d3a9d3b2081310c219380c5b564208bbee\/0_546_8192_4918\/master\/8192.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=80c9d435dc289ec9e3767e3acbcf7cf6\" title=\"Laughter not laptops: cafe culture fights back against keyboard invaders\" \/>Cafe owners seeking convivial atmosphere as well as better turnover are starting to deter remote workers<br \/>\n\u201cTo the Coffee-house, and there all the house full of the discourse of the great fire,\u201d wrote Samuel Pepys of his trip to a 17th-century cafe \u2013 then the social nerve centre of London\u2019s gossiping elite.<br \/>\nFast forward to the 21st century and the chattering classes have been replaced with the clattering classes \u2013 remote workers busily hammering away on their laptop keyboards and shouting on video calls to be heard over the mechanical grinding of coffee beans. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cafe owners seeking convivial atmosphere as well as better turnover are starting to deter remote workers \u201cTo the Coffee-house, and there all the house full of the discourse of the great fire,\u201d wrote Samuel Pepys of his trip to a 17th-century cafe \u2013 then the social nerve centre of London\u2019s gossiping elite. Fast forward to &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/17\/laughter-not-laptops-cafe-culture-fights-back-against-keyboard-invaders\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Laughter not laptops: cafe culture fights back against keyboard invaders<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18145"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}