During the pandemic, many people turned to coffee shops and cafes to get their social fix whilst ‘working from home.’ While at first it was a great hit for both cafe goers and the coffee shops themselves, there soon were issues of overcrowding, privacy, noise and much more. Read below for our deep dive and tell-all of what our readers experienced at coffee shops (we can’t make this stuff up!) “We breakdown walls so that we can find breakthroughs in our businesses” — Cynthia Chiam, GCAL Global 1. Noise: Think Crying Babies Whether it be white noise or loud noise, coffee shops have a plethora of weird and wacky sounds. From the coffee grinder and milk frother to the crying babies and chatty neighbors, there is a high level of unpredictability associated with a coffee shop. Whilst these noises may ‘make’ your experience if you are coming for a casual coffee, they are major disturbances whilst trying to work or even worse, whilst trying to take calls. Further, as a visitor of a ...