At work: What the [redacted] goes on all day at a communal workspace? Communal workspaces such as WeWork are all the rage in global cities big and small (they popped up in Cairo nearly three years ago, if we recall correctly), but what goes on there all day? And can you get any work done there? Two mandatory reads if you’re a corporate drone planning a plunge into the “gig economy”: Sriracha is for closers, wherein Esquire’s Eric Konigsberg “clocks in to find out just what the hell people actually do [at a WeWork] all day.” It’s one of the best business stories to be written so far this year. Follow that up with Why it’s so hard to actually work in shared offices, in Canada’s The Walrus.

Off the clock” From Columbia to Tasmania via Belgrade and Bhutan, the New York Times helps you plan your next escape from the veal pen in which you labour in its 52 Places to Go in 2018.