Work from Home - Computer setups
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@AdamF said in Work from Home - Computer setups:
For those of you with home offices, do you have a completely separate computer setup for accessing your work things? I'm thinking of setting up another desk, just to use with my work laptop and getting separate Keyboard, monitors, etc for that setup.
I have two full desks, each with two monitors, each with a desktop. All in one room. I have a dedicated office room (I'm WFH full time so this is important). I have a full desk phone as well.
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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.
People are free to provide whatever they need for their individual needs. I can see there being a requirement to offer some kind of stipend for buying that stuff, or letting people take it home, but I imagine it'll be hard to sue for not bothering to get what you needed and how can you say you needed it if you didn't already have it?
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@scottalanmiller said in Work from Home - Computer setups:
@AdamF said in Work from Home - Computer setups:
For those of you with home offices, do you have a completely separate computer setup for accessing your work things? I'm thinking of setting up another desk, just to use with my work laptop and getting separate Keyboard, monitors, etc for that setup.
I have two full desks, each with two monitors, each with a desktop. All in one room. I have a dedicated office room (I'm WFH full time so this is important). I have a full desk phone as well.
Yeah, That's exactly what I am thinking about doing. Another desk. Need to separate work/home a bit more.
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@scottalanmiller said in Work from Home - Computer setups:
@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.
People are free to provide whatever they need for their individual needs. I can see there being a requirement to offer some kind of stipend for buying that stuff, or letting people take it home, but I imagine it'll be hard to sue for not bothering to get what you needed and how can you say you needed it if you didn't already have it?
I think his argument is that they provided that stuff at the office, but aren't providing it at home - for example, a good chair. I don't know about any place else, but we aren't allowing people to take their chair for WFH.
Nor are we allowing them to take their desk, we expect people to provide their own desk. The same goes for internet access, we expect them to provide that as well. though I see both sides of the who should pay for internet situation, if you're working in an office, the office definitely doesn't have to pay for your transportation to from work, and one could argue that your providing internet at home is like providing transportation to work. -
@scottalanmiller said in Work from Home - Computer setups:
@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.
People are free to provide whatever they need for their individual needs. I can see there being a requirement to offer some kind of stipend for buying that stuff, or letting people take it home, but I imagine it'll be hard to sue for not bothering to get what you needed and how can you say you needed it if you didn't already have it?
Most places I've seen have simply asked people what they'd prefer, WFH or office or of course some combination. Those that want to WFH are allowed to take their equipment and setup a space in their homes to work from.
At least in NY, when a company provides equipment to an In-State employee, that equipment is the companies, and unless it's across state lines it's pretty easy to just send the Sherriff over to collect any unreturned equipment.
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@DustinB3403 said in Work from Home - Computer setups:
@pmoncho watch that youtube video I posted if you wanted to do something on the cheap to get through the winter.
That was pretty cool. Based on the layout of my basement, I don't have a place to properly setup the dish. Although the small dish maybe doable.
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@pmoncho said in Work from Home - Computer setups:
@DustinB3403 said in Work from Home - Computer setups:
@pmoncho watch that youtube video I posted if you wanted to do something on the cheap to get through the winter.
That was pretty cool. Based on the layout of my basement, I don't have a place to properly setup the dish. Although the small dish maybe doable.
Yeah I wouldn't do a large setup like he did. If I did this, I would make a smaller one, to add the feels if you know, without all of the crazy expense.
The LED he used for the large build is almost $500.
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Whenever I get to go back to work, I'll be using my personal desktop with 2x 24inch monitors (nothing special). But until then, my home setup is this:
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@RojoLoco I think your monitor is vibrating a lot!
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@DustinB3403 said in Work from Home - Computer setups:
@pmoncho said in Work from Home - Computer setups:
@DustinB3403 said in Work from Home - Computer setups:
@pmoncho watch that youtube video I posted if you wanted to do something on the cheap to get through the winter.
That was pretty cool. Based on the layout of my basement, I don't have a place to properly setup the dish. Although the small dish maybe doable.
Yeah I wouldn't do a large setup like he did. If I did this, I would make a smaller one, to add the feels if you know, without all of the crazy expense.
The LED he used for the large build is almost $500.
Holy cow! It did seem like an expensive setup and could be slimmed down.
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@pmoncho Yeah a low cost version of that might be ~$100 total, he actually list all of the parts on the full video page, except for the dish.
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I use a laptop for work, and connect via usb-c dock to dual screens at the office. I have a similar setup at the house. So, I just plug in my work machine and off I go.
