Architects Derrick Choi and Miriam Spear collaborate at Panera Bread in Brookline. Below: Lawyer Rebecca Pontikes on her laptop at Peet's in Harvard Square.
(Aram Boghosian for the Boston Globe (above); John Tlumacki/Globe Staff)
Office politics, alive and well
At crowded cafes, tensions brew
Architects Derrick Choi and Miriam Spear collaborate at Panera Bread in Brookline. Below: Lawyer Rebecca Pontikes on her laptop at Peet's in Harvard Square.
(Aram Boghosian for the Boston Globe (above); John Tlumacki/Globe Staff)
Robert Wickham, a software salesman, was working on his laptop at his favorite office - the airy Cafe Fixe, in Brookline - when he took a break to explain the art of scoring a desk, er, table, and how it all comes down to contacts. If people know you, he said, they'll share a table or finish their coffee quickly. ... (Full article: 863 words)
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