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Moving between places
Figure 2.2 Work setup in a café
In order to cope with the variety of workplaces, the nomadic workers enacted the affordance of malleability, which is the possibility to shape place temporarily for nomadic work. Ordering the place takes place in the workers' interaction with both the physical and social features of the places. The complexity of the temporary work environment varies across places. A respondent describes his typical set up:
“For working, I obviously have a laptop charger. I have a stand because when I work [...] I just get really bad neck and shoulder pain if I don't sit right. I got myself a Roost stand [...] It allows you to have the laptop at the height you need, I also have a roll-up keyboard, so I can type on a keyboard and a mouse. What else do I have? [...] I'm using an app called Duet, which basically lets me use my iPad as an extra monitor.” (Kenni, product manager, #18)
During our fieldwork, we observed how people set up temporary work environments in cafés and co-working spaces. For example, in cafés, the setup tended to be rather simple with just the laptop (Figure 2.2),
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