🖋️Feature: Do hospitality providers even appreciate what an "adequate remote work workspace" is?

So many supposed remote work hospitality providers don't get it

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IGNORE THE PROPAGANDA about Remote Ready nomad friendly accommodation - I have learned, albeit the hard way - to ignore it, if Air B n B or Booking (or whatever provider) have a tick box saying “remote work friendly” regarding accommodation, approach with caution!

I always, always question, hard and extensively.

Unfortunately, horse crap it often is.

This cafe in Lapad Dubrovnik had a better ergonomic set up than the “kitchen bar/island” at our rental place

Example above, from August of this year - I ended up working mainly from this cafe in Lapad, Dubrovnik a 10 min walk from our rental apartment, as the supposed remote work set up was so, so uncomfortable and untenable. The lighting in particular made it very difficult to focus and be fruitful.

Bad lighting can make me sleepy, I find. Squashing my energy. So I found a nearby location that worked so much better….

Image: Nextstand, portable and ergonomic laptop riser. 10% off code: NEXRO10

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So let’s be clear on what does NOT make a suitable remote work workplace:

• No, you cannot remote work comfortably from a weirdly narrow breakfast bar or is it a kitchen island - sometimes I am not sure? But a breakfast bar or island are not desks. Period.