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Last week, my employer announced that we will not be returning to our offices in 2020. And the implication was not that we'll be back at the beginning of the year -- to the contrary, the lease on one of our offices is expiring in January 2021, and the email said the organization will work with any employees who still have offices there to help them get their stuff back. (The lease ending isn't a surprise; staff have been moving out of that building for at least a year now.)
It seemed inevitable, in a way; once Google [announced that employees would be working remotely until next July](), with Apple soon to follow, I have to imagine the dominoes will fall for the rest of the text companies and any other business where work can be conducted, wholly or in part, from anywhere with an internet connection. Still, I wasn't ready to hear that I'll be working from my house for at least another six months, and I need to really figure out how to create a better work space for myself. What I have isn't terrible, but there's much room for improvement. I've already put in a request for a second monitor, with a webcam -- I've been using the webcam on my laptop, as well as treating the laptop screen as my "second monitor", and it puts my neck and back into an awkward position for hours at a time. Even worse is my desk, which I truly hate. It's rickety, it's somehow both too small and too large, and I don't have a decent flat surface for writing. Also, the built-in keyboard tray is much too high. I've long wanted to replace it, and this will be my impetus to do so -- I just need to figure out with what, and also how to choose a desk without being able to sit it and see how it feels. Unfortunately, unlike with the monitor and any other tech equipment, for the desk I'm on my own. Time to poke around the Ikea website and other online furniture options and see what I can find.
Any recommendations?
It seemed inevitable, in a way; once Google [announced that employees would be working remotely until next July](), with Apple soon to follow, I have to imagine the dominoes will fall for the rest of the text companies and any other business where work can be conducted, wholly or in part, from anywhere with an internet connection. Still, I wasn't ready to hear that I'll be working from my house for at least another six months, and I need to really figure out how to create a better work space for myself. What I have isn't terrible, but there's much room for improvement. I've already put in a request for a second monitor, with a webcam -- I've been using the webcam on my laptop, as well as treating the laptop screen as my "second monitor", and it puts my neck and back into an awkward position for hours at a time. Even worse is my desk, which I truly hate. It's rickety, it's somehow both too small and too large, and I don't have a decent flat surface for writing. Also, the built-in keyboard tray is much too high. I've long wanted to replace it, and this will be my impetus to do so -- I just need to figure out with what, and also how to choose a desk without being able to sit it and see how it feels. Unfortunately, unlike with the monitor and any other tech equipment, for the desk I'm on my own. Time to poke around the Ikea website and other online furniture options and see what I can find.
Any recommendations?
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Also recommend getting the best chair you can, since it has to be used a lot. I've had the same chair for probably going on ten years now? More? I legit have no idea when I got it, but it's about perfect for me. Though I think I'll need to replace it soon as the cushion is slowly getting compressed. (For me, a huge thing is having padding on the arms, because I lean on my elbows a lot.)