A landline? No, not since 2000 and … never.
The office desk phone is dead. Long live the smart phone.
That sums it up for many Millennials working in Chattanooga’s startup business community.
“We don’t even have landlines at all,” said Mary Stargel, the “community manager” at Society of Work, a shared office space on the sixth floor of the Edney Building, the 10-story office building at the corner of 11th and Market streets that’s considered the hub of Chattanooga’s new downtown Innovation District.
“There’s just no need for it,” Stargel said. “You assume that someone’s going to have their [smart] phone on them at all times.”