Originally posted by jjrobinson2:

Don't really think the Viking backstory would support workbench overlap as a method of subsistence farming.

The workbench thingy is an "exploit", it's not an inteded game mechanic. It's a safety measure to avoid monsters spawning inside your buildings or something but since people know about it they "abuse" it to avoid excessive raids and such, but it's not related to the lore or the mechanics (as in it's not like monsters are a buncha freeloaders too scared of work and that's why they don't spawn anywhere near those nor it's an intended strategy that you litter the map with workbenches). My guess is that they'll finetune the way things spawn and how raids work over time but right now people just work around things like that.

Personally I just burrow them under a structure like watchtowers or mini-houses to make it feel more integrated within a village and not just an outdoors cyber-caffee full of desks.