Dream home office tips and hints

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Now some are working at home for the foreseeable. What is in your ideal home office?

I would start with wireless mouse and keyboard and AirPods. No cables!

And two screens.

You?

Plenty of natural light, quiet, good desk and chair, good internet connection, storage and plenty of sockets. No and or tidy cables, nicely decorated and a door so you can lock yourself away
FYI I have been WFH for the last 20 years

I have always wanted to ask this..... what is having more than one screen about? Is it certain job relatable?

I hate opening and closing tabs but two screens always surprises me when I spot in someone elses office!

Besides the desk and chair I would need a log fire and an armchair. And a wall of bookshelves. It would be a sort of study/ library. On a winters afternoon I would finish work and have toasted crumpets by the fire.

Ok I’m getting carried away

2 huge screens...

I do mainly spreadsheet work lots of copying and pasting between various things or creating links...

I can have Outlook, a specific Sharepoint site, a Spreadsheet and a website all open and in use at once to achieve one piece of work!

2 screens are great when you may be on a call with slides but you can do some no brain excel lookups and stuff on the other one at the same time!

I use charts and market info, 2 screens saves flicking back and forth

Ok maybe i want 2 screens ya know

If you are doing some very dull and easy work you can have something interesting on the other screen to keep you awake...

DH can watch easy view films whilst doing his job he can't do foreign films with subtitles or anything with a complex/involved plot and obviously it gets paused a fair amount.

Mine would be a lovely log cabin office at the bottom of our garden. Floor to ceiling doors along the front, so there’s lots of light and a nice view. L-shape desk facing outwards. 2 monitors, wireless keyboard, wireless mouse. The other side of the cabin would have a cosy small sofa and foot stool with a log burner and rug. There should also be a small kitchen areas to make tea/coffee. I’d need a toilet, too. Actually, let’s extend the cabin and I may move in 😂

Oh and cat bed for my
Cats to use instead of my keyboard!

How do you file things?

How do you store all your cables ? And power packs and usbs and books!

I have a filing cabinet with each family members name on one box file and then

• id details
• medical
• bank

Then 2015 etc for birthday year, then 2016,2017 until now for kids things in order- key bits and bobs and memories. For adults similar only 5 years or decades for things.

Cables - a big box with all of them tied up with labels.
A plastic drawer thing for hard drives, sport watch , cameras bits. And another one on a shelf for stationary bits. All labelled.
Basically I adore my Label maker.

We don't have drawers for things like this as can't fit it but then I would simply
Have trays instead .

And a charging point on the desk - those cableless ones.

Hate to brag but I have two huge screens and my surface pro as dh is in finance and I work on many files at once !

When we renovated we actually put date cables in from where we keep the router so hard wire the internet in this room
And the kitchen table has a point there too as we have to have shifts on who works where/ kids watching. Which is fun as they are 2/4yrs!