Ask five Memphians where to work in Memphis and the answers look nothing like they did a year ago 💻 Crosstown Concourse opened a coworking floor upstairs! A Cordova cafe keeps the lights on for laptops until 11 p.m. on a Friday ☕ What follows comes from people who actually sit in these rooms, hours and prices attached, because a 3 p.m. close is worth knowing before the drive across town.
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The short answer is Crosstown Concourse. Free wifi, outlets on the upper atrium landings, 6:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. every day, and eight places to eat without leaving the building. Everything below is for when that will not do.
Coworking Spaces
Crosstown CoWork, 1350 Concourse Ave, Memphis.
Serendipity Labs Memphis: A $29 Day Pass
Weekdays 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. ● 6584 Poplar Ave ● East Memphis
The only Memphis day pass with a rate posted online. Twenty nine dollars with no membership, $199 a month for unlimited, $59 for a private day office, and meeting rooms from $60 an hour. The wifi meets HIPAA, SOX and FINRA compliance, which matters for anybody handling client files. Free parking off I-240, and book direct because the aggregators quote $35.
Crosstown CoWork: The Newest Desks In Town
24/7 access with membership ● 1350 Concourse Ave ● Crosstown
Opened April 2026 at the top of the red spiral staircase beside Crosstown Arts. Private offices from $800, dedicated desks from $450. French Truck is one floor down and the free atrium seating outside the door absorbs a busy morning. Membership runs monthly or annual, so call ahead to find the plan that's right for you.
Wonder Cowork Create: $99 A Month
Weekday tier 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. ● 340 B Monroe Ave ● Edge District
Ninety nine dollars covers weekdays 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., or the same price buys a Thursday through Monday tier for weekend deadlines. Ten hours of meeting room time, free parking and printing included, in a converted warehouse. The string lit balcony is the real reason people sign up.
Also Renting Desks
- ●Tucker Collective, Midtown near Overton Park, Zoom rooms named for B.B. King's guitar and Sister Rosetta Tharpe
- ●Epicenter, 150 Peabody Place, from $150 a month, and the old Cooper Street address is out of date
- ●Connect Hub, 50 S B.B. King, standing desks and a visitor day pass, membership also covers New Orleans
- ●The Meeting Center of Collierville, conference rooms hourly, daily or weekly with wifi and AV included
- ●Regus Colonnade, International Drive, an open desk by the hour at $7
Two things worth knowing before searching. CUBEWORK on Delp Street is industrial coworking, built around loading docks and forklifts rather than laptops, and Industrious has never had a Memphis location despite turning up in national roundups.
Coffee Shops Built For Laptops
These four lead because each one either confirms free wifi in writing or says plainly that it wants people to stay a while. That welcome is what turns a good cup into a good afternoon of work.
Otherlands Coffee Bar, 641 S Cooper St, Memphis.
Otherlands Coffee Bar: The Clearest Laptop Policy In Town
Weekdays 7:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., weekends to 5 p.m. ● 641 S Cooper St ● Cooper-Young
Free wifi covers the building, and the shop puts in writing that customers may work as long as they like. No other Memphis cafe documents a friendlier policy, which makes this the safest bet in the city. Tables and nooks everywhere, a patio open year round, and a gift shop improbably in the middle of the room.
Aldar Cafe: Twelve Hours A Day, Seven Days A Week
Daily 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. ● 4514 Summer Ave ● Berclair
The widest window on this list, and the rare cafe that describes its own room as built for staying in rather than taking out. Quiet booths, long wooden tables, a back patio. The Yemeni Latte is roasted on site and arrives in hand thrown ceramics on brass saucers.
Sweet Eye Coffee House: Open Until 11 P.M.
Sunday to Thursday 8 a.m. to 9 p.m., Friday and Saturday to 11 p.m. ● 1140 N Germantown Pkwy ● Cordova
The latest cafe close in the metro, and the shop says outright it is built as a hangout for students and remote workers. Owner Aimen Alaina roasts in house and named it for Ein El Hilweh, the Palestinian refugee camp his family came from. Order the Baklava Latte.
The Hub Coffee: A Conference Room For $25 An Hour
Monday, Thursday and Friday 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., closed Sunday ● 6000 Briarcrest Ave ● East Memphis
The only cafe here with bookable meeting space, published at $25 an hour or $175 a day, inside Mission Church off I-240 and Poplar. It also has the thing almost no Memphis work spot has, which is dedicated parking. Half of all profits go to Memphis nonprofits. Call 901.399.0990 before booking the room.
A few more built for sitting: Belltower confirms free wifi in writing at both Highland and the Shelby Farms visitor center. Ray Mah on Hacks Cross is 8,500 square feet, built by its owners specifically for homework and meetings. Congregation Coffee in Germantown unlocks at 6:30 a.m., the earliest in the metro, and Java Cabana in Cooper-Young runs to midnight on weekends. For the full list, and for the coffee itself rather than the tables, the Memphis coffee shop guide and the matcha guide go far deeper than this one does.
Libraries With Room To Spread Out
Free, quiet, wired, and the most underrated answer here. Every Memphis Public Libraries branch except Parkway Village has a meeting room that non profit groups can book at no cost for meetings open to the public.
Cossitt Library, 33 S Front St, Memphis.
Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library: Go Upstairs
Monday to Thursday 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., Sunday 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. ● 3030 Poplar Ave ● East Memphis
Three hundred and thirty thousand square feet, and the mistake first timers make is settling on the busy ground floor. The quiet work happens in the upper floor departmental reading areas. Free wifi, printing at 20 cents a page, and a guest pass for anybody without a card.
Cossitt Library: A Free Podcast Studio
Monday to Thursday 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., closed Sunday ● 33 S Front St ● Downtown
The first public library in Memphis, opened 1893, and small at 5,800 square feet, which is the point. Nobody fights for a table here the way they do at Central. The second floor holds a free reservable podcast studio with a RODECaster Pro, the most underused creative resource downtown.
Burch Library: A Private Room, Free
Monday to Thursday 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., Sunday 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. ● 501 Poplar View Pkwy ● Collierville
The best reservable study rooms in the metro, and they cost nothing. Three rooms, two hours a day, bookable a month ahead with a library card or a driver's license. Each has a flat glass writing board, and covered water bottles are explicitly allowed, a smaller kindness than it sounds until hour three.
More Branches Worth The Drive
- ●Ned R. McWherter Library, University of Memphis, open to midnight Monday to Thursday in the semester, and the public may walk in free
- ●Germantown Community Library, 1925 Exeter, open to 9 p.m. Monday to Thursday, the latest of any library here
- ●Whitehaven and Raleigh branches, two of only four Memphis Public Libraries locations open until 8 p.m.
- ●Cordova Library, 8457 Trinity, the biggest branch after Central, with a small conference room and a kitchen
Free Places To Work In Memphis
The category that separates people who know Memphis from people who searched for it. Atriums, a record library, a climbing gym and two river parks.
Crosstown Concourse: The Right Answer Most Days
Daily 6:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. ● 1350 Concourse Ave ● Crosstown
Free wifi across 1.5 million square feet, no purchase required, fifteen and a half hours a day. Outlets sit on the second floor balcony and the fourth, fifth and seventh floor landings, and those upper landings stay quiet on weekday mornings while the ground floor food row does not.
Memphis Listening Lab: The Quiet Room Upstairs
Tuesday to Sunday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. ● 1350 Concourse Ave, Suite 269 ● Crosstown
Free, public and quiet by design, one floor above the busiest lunch counter in Midtown. Thirty five thousand 45 rpm singles and 15,000 LPs surround the tables, and the SoundRoom carries reference quality audio. Almost nobody outside record collecting knows it exists, which is why seats are open.
Memphis Rox: A Climbing Gym That Works As An Office
Weekdays 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., weekends noon to 6 p.m. ● 879 E McLemore Ave ● Soulsville
Eleven hours a day on weekdays, confirmed wifi, free parking, no reservation, and Juice Almighty running the food out of a community garden. Rox was built on the principle that access should never depend on what somebody can pay. Stax and the LeMoyne-Owen library are both walkable on the same stretch of McLemore.
More Free Rooms And Good Seats
- ●Tom Lee Park, the River Porch and Hammock Grove, though Hi Neighbor Cafe runs Friday afternoons and weekends only
- ●Shelby Farms Park visitor center, wifi, Adirondack rocking chairs over Hyde Lake, and Belltower inside until 4 p.m.
- ●Hyatt Centric Beale Street, the CIMAS lobby lounge posts 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., the best published lobby hours downtown
- ●The Peabody Grand Lobby, the most beautiful room in the city to open a laptop, but the duck march clears it around 11 a.m. and 5 p.m.
- ●Fourth Bluff Park, Front at Court, movable furniture and shaded tables, rare in a Memphis park
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