Setting up a home office, including using/storing several laptops?

[Walkingtheplank]

I have a new job which seems to be home based when I thought it was office based. I also have another role. Both require separate laptops.

Is there a neat way to store and charge 2 laptops, rather than them taking up a large amount of shelf space?

Also, is there a comfortable way to use a laptop. My newest one is very thin, so I can see myself getting RSI with my wrists bent upwards all the time.

Many thanks.

Get a wrist rest and an external keyboard to help your wrists

Laptops don't take up that much space, can't you just stack them and charge them like that? If you are always using them at a desk, you don't necessarily need to charge them, just have them plugged in when you are using them

You can buy a "docking station" which you link to a monitor screen and a mouse and keyboard, and then link each laptop into that. Many laptops will function happily in their closed/folded position when connected to a docking station so it will feel like working on a desktop PC. Some docking stations will allow you to switch inputs from more than one machine so you can have both running at once if that would ever be necessary, others will only have one input but it's easy to swap them around.

I run 2 laptops and whichever isn't currently in use just gets shelved vertically like a book next to my box files.

I don't have one of these but have seen loads of adverts for various kinds of laptop stands that make them more ergonomic by lifting the screen higher - you would then use a separate keyboard rather than having to type higher up too!

Can your new employer supply a monitor as well and you use a separate keyboard and mouse? That's the set up I have with my laptop on a stand next to my big monitor. Prolonged time at a laptop will do your wrists and neck and shoulders in

Thank you. I did think about having separate keyboard. Feel a bit grabby asking for extra kit straight away but I think I'll need it.

They need to do an assessment and provide either another keyboard or another screen so the screen can be at the correct height, it's not grabby, I'm pretty sure it's the law.

Laptop, keyboard, mouse, monitor and headset should be standard equipment in my opinion, if they expect you to work from home, not grabby at all. I'd get that from one of the employers and then purchase a docking station to easily swap between laptops. Always worth seeing if a docking station can be purchased by the company too of course though this is less likely to be standard.