Work from Home - Computer setups
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When my wife started remote teaching (via zoom) I purchased her a stand for her laptop, a second monitor, keyboard and mouse. She always worked from the laptop, even when she was at the college, so nothing to remote into.
As Scott would call it - they are basically LANLess. The only thing on the LAN is printers, so it was a pretty easy transition for her.
Oh wait - one failing they have - Whatever their phones are, the staff haven't been provided with a phone while away from their desk.
This hasn't been a huge deal because the pandemic forced most students to have a computer/device that can do zoom, so zoom has replaced phone calls for the most part. -
@DustinB3403 said in Work from Home - Computer setups:
At the moment, I use a personal keyboard and mouse, with a company provided laptop. I'm thinking im going to purchase a monitor though as looking at the laptop screen has been causing some eye strain and me to lean forward to see the screen.
Plus I'd like to just have my monitor more eye level.
Good for you! Working on a laptop is an ergonomic disaster.
Hooking it up to an external monitor, external keyboard and mouse is the way to go.
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I'm working from a personal laptop. If I am doing enough that I need a second screen, I can hook it up to my TV.
That being said, If I have to actually travel, I have a work laptop that goes with me rather than my personal one.
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Just bought a 31.5" HP monitor for the home office, will be picking it up in a bit. With tax it was only $205.19!
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Desktop with 2 27" monitors at work
Dell personal laptop with docking station, personal mouse with 1 personal 27" monitor and 1 work provided 27" monitor. I like having three screens. All sits on 6' X 30" folding card table from WalMart. Works well but my lighting the basement sucks.I currently remote into work pc. In a pinch, I can directly access work related systems through SSL-VPN but it can be slow at times. I do connect directly to my work lab using an old SSL-VPN and with it being a lab, doesn't need speed.
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It's kind of funny, when we all worked in offices there are loads of health and safety requirements to do with decent chairs, space, monitors at the right level. We did regular checks to make sure everyone was compliant. All good stuff - anything to prevent the pain and misery of things like back pain.
Now we all work from home and some people are literally lying on their beds with a tiny laptop on their laps.
I wonder if firms might get sued. I haven't heard of anything happening. Obviously when Covid is over, many people will continue to WFH, but firms aren't going to get away with this. I wonder how it will be dealt with.
My niece is a trainee architect for a prestigious Swedish firm in London. The top bosses have all moved home and are now working in their enormous houses in beautiful Swedish countryside and living the dream whilst the lower ranked workers are working in their tiny, shared, rented flats in London. My niece spends nearly 24 hours a day in a tiny room that is her bedroom cum office. There is only room for a bed, she sleeps on it at night and works on it in the day. This is the reality of WFH for a lot of young people in major cities. I'm sure it's the same in New York, Paris or Hong Kong. Maybe in the long run people will move out of the cities, but I'm not convinced.
My company are pretty good - basically telling people they will buy them whatever they need for home.
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@Carnival-Boy said in Work from Home - Computer setups:
My niece is a trainee architect for a prestigious Swedish firm in London. The top bosses have all moved home and are now working in their enormous houses in beautiful Swedish countryside and living the dream whilst the lower ranked workers are working in their tiny, shared, rented flats in London. My niece spends nearly 24 hours a day in a tiny room that is her bedroom cum office. There is only room for a bed, she sleeps on it at night and works on it in the day. This is the reality of WFH for a lot of young people in major cities. I'm sure it's the same in New York, Paris or Hong Kong. Maybe in the long run people will move out of the cities, but I'm not convinced.
Those well off enough and working from home, often already have left the big cities... but the youngs, and less well off - they don't want to leave the city - they want the nightlife they hope to get back when the pandemic is over.
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@Carnival-Boy said in Work from Home - Computer setups:
I wonder if firms might get sued. I haven't heard of anything happening. Obviously when Covid is over, many people will continue to WFH, but firms aren't going to get away with this. I wonder how it will be dealt with.
I suppose Europe might suffer more of this, but I can't see this being an issue in the US, though of course there is room for me to be wrong. Some companies are providing whatever a person needs at home, but definitely not all.
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With my new monitor.
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Pardon the unfinished basement in the background. This was before I had my thunderbolt dock so only the one monitor would come on.
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reading things at the top of the vertical monitor would seem to potentially be an issue, no?
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I have a custom built stand up desk at home now, but I am thinking about making another station just for my work stuff. I have some extra monitors lying around.
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@Dashrender said in Work from Home - Computer setups:
reading things at the top of the vertical monitor would seem to potentially be an issue, no?
Nah, it's not bad. Having that for code is much nicer. That was kind of a low picture. At sitting height it's not that bad.
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Right after setting it all up -
@Kris_K said in Work from Home - Computer setups:
Right after setting it all upNice setup. Man, I wish I had that much light. I'm in my dimly lit dudgeon.
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@pmoncho Yup, it's in the attic. Having some skylights helps a lot.
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@Kris_K said in Work from Home - Computer setups:
@pmoncho Yup, it's in the attic. Having some skylights helps a lot.
Keep thinking about putting those in my kitchen but the many people I have spoke with always mention how they leak after 5-7 years. I have enough roof problems.
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@pmoncho said in Work from Home - Computer setups:
@Kris_K said in Work from Home - Computer setups:
@pmoncho Yup, it's in the attic. Having some skylights helps a lot.
Keep thinking about putting those in my kitchen but the many people I have spoke with always mention how they leak after 5-7 years. I have enough roof problems.
Our house had skylights installed in the 90's.
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@AdamF said in Work from Home - Computer setups:
I have a custom built stand up desk at home now, but I am thinking about making another station just for my work stuff. I have some extra monitors lying around.
I actually just had two spaces setup for this, but only one sit-stand desk. Having that feature alone made me ditch me "work only" space and use just the one.
Since I have laptops, moving a few cables (hdmi and keyboard although I could just get a logitech keyboard) isn't a hassle.
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@pmoncho This is something I've considered (albeit smaller in form) to get a more natural feeling light.
