• Atlanta has the highest number of coworking spaces within three miles of its stadium, with 53 spaces near Mercedes-Benz Stadium. That gives visiting professionals plenty of options to take calls, answer emails or work between matches. 
• The city also avoids the “suburban stadium penalty” seen in many other host markets. While cities like Boston and Miami have stadiums far outside their downtown cores, Atlanta’s venue sits directly in the city, making coworking, transit and game-day logistics much easier to manage. 
• Costs are relatively practical, too. The data shows that Atlanta coworking day passes have a median price of $40, while MARTA offers a $2.50 single ride or $9 day pass, allowing fans to work and get to the game without major transportation hurdles. 

Every four years, the World Cup arrives and the professional world (at least its soccer fans) quietly adjusts its rhythm. Emails go unanswered a little longer, meetings run slightly shorter, and the office kitchen TV becomes prime real estate. This summer, the tournament is jointly hosted by Canada, Mexico, and the United States, but this analysis focuses only on U.S. stadium locations. Within that scope, the competition spans 11 American cities over 48 days and 78 games, significantly changing the disruption calculus.

A UKG survey of 8,000 workers across eight countries found that a third of them expect to take at least one day off because of the World Cup, with a quarter planning to miss part of a workday regardless.

CoworkingCafe mapped the flexible workspace landscape around every one of the eleven host stadiums, counting coworking spaces within a three-mile radius of each venue, measuring day pass prices, cross-referencing transit costs, and calculating the cultural amenity density that makes some cities feel like a destination and others feel like a logistics exercise.

We found that Kansas City’s Arrowhead Stadium, host of six games at the tournament, returned no coworking spaces within the three-mile radius. Having this sports arena excluded from the comparative analysis, we are left with ten host stadiums to talk about.

What we found is a story in two halves. Four stadiums sit inside the cities that host them, surrounded by coworking infrastructure that makes flexible work genuinely easy. The other six sit in suburbs, industrial corridors, or satellite towns where the coworking count near the venue drops to almost nothing.