Show us your remote work setup!
Hi Community!
I hope everyone out there is staying safe, healthy, and productive. As many of you know or are finding out, when working remotely full time, it's crucial to create and optimize a workspace that is (probably) not your bed or your couch ;).
So, we'd love to see a photo of your remote work setup - whether it be your two monitors on the kitchen table, cozy makeshift desk in a corner, or fancy-schmancy home office. Extra points for animals sitting on/near keyboards. Hopefully, we can all gain some inspiration and/or joy by sharing our new "corner office" digs.
Heres' mine!
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My brand new work space setup... for the following weeks ... Groot and Rocket guide me :)
Messy but productive & efficient
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Here's my lovely work from home office.
Its not much, but its temporarily home. I really wish I had space for another screen.
I have now been working from home for a grand total of 2 days. Not my favorite thing in the world, but here is my new setup. It's a pretty decent view though and at least I have a window now!
Here's my home office...
The Funko collection (Prince and Mr Rogers) is my wife's.
The temporary office in my "shed". Need some bigger monitors to match those others ones in this thread, i feel inadequate.
A few people may have already seen that I've delegated my work for now.
I worked remotely for 6 yrs solid in previous life and sporadically in this one when I needed to get some serious concentration in. This is my environment:
It's all fed by a VLAN'd and gatewayed Unifi network with dual ISPs. A nice comfy place to work.
Of those that might help, it could be any of these (seen here behind a tinted window having a hummingbird feeder on it with said hummingbird not realizing he is inches away from kitty death)
And they all do help, although the big black one spends rather more time asleep on the couch rather than helping
I've shared some of these already but why not again. Here's my desk setup, it functions as both a work desk during the day and a gaming/streaming setup at night:
While I'm working during the day, I have a faithful companion that sleeps by my side on the couch behind me:
Our little one who was at daycare until recently seems to be adjusting well to being at home all day:
Our other dog is still determined to catch that rabbit he's been chasing around the yard all week:
My cats go outside for supervised visits in the back yard and are trained to go in when we tell them to. When I see them doing similar to your rabbit chaser, it's almost always a lizard. They often catch them.....
I've been working from home since the start of the week but this setup has been a WIP for a number of years.
Note the distracting chocolate box used as a monitor support
I almost went Ergodox for a split keyboard but I was afraid that transition between that and a "normal" keyboard would be tough. As it is, the 75 key ortholinear I have works great, not too hard to move back and forth from it to traditional. I get some split by putting my navigation keys in the middle. Please excuse the ugly keycaps until I get a nice set. These work. Since I will have to go largely custom, want to make sure I really like 'em. However a set of these with the required others is my current favorite.
I've been working remotely for most of the past 15 years. Right now I live on top of a hill at the end of a private road, so this whole "shelter in place" thing is basically my life anyway. My advice:
Lots of plants, cats and dogs in my office are essential to my well being as a remote worker.
Also key:
- An essential oil diffuser
- Spotify's Feel Good music playlists
- A comfy ergonomic chair
- Regular walks (dogs ensure this!)
- An adjustable standing/sitting desk
- Take a real lunch break instead of cramming food in your face while you work, even if just 20 min
- Get dressed every day (pajamas don't count as dressed)
- Talk to someone who doesn't live with you every day (not about work!)
Here is mine
As an administrator of the Confluence Data Center,remote work has increased Confluence's usage, the second week of March ushered in more than 80,000 page views per day.
Now, I need to take a break^_^
My "work" station looks pretty cozy at 6:30 AM. I needed to get a chair from the office because the main issue at home is staying comfortable while working. Now I’m actually enjoying it, reduced noise and meeting are just my type of things :)
I miss my fluffy Grumpy Cat, who is living on my office desk, so here is my "Grumpy Me" to cheer me up.
Hi everybody.
This is great! In our company, we have the same "homeoffice challenge" :)
With all that social distancing, it feels cool to see all the homes and brings us a little bit closer!
Here is my workplace. In fact, it changes almost every day. Sometime i work from the balcony or from the living room :)
This is my workplace at the moment. My Co-Worker's sleeping all the time :-)
Here is my remote work set-up... as viewed by my computer screen..... #TrueStory
We've been confined to working from home. Here's my workspace. Sorry, not pets, just Hank the Office Tyrannosaurus with a message for everyone ;)
I learned that if I put a cat bed cover next to me they will settle on it and not attack my fingers while I'm typing.
This is Moe, and you've seen Milo.
I did basically the same thing with the cat bed... I have room behind my monitor (on an arm) and put a couple of cat beds behind it. Usually occupied when I am working and only occasional helped by a cat batting at the mouse pointer on the screen.
Well, it took several hours and two different computers plus an iPad to get this picture here but it's finally posted.
I've been working remotely in various quantities including sometimes (pager/off-hour support), part time, and full time for many years at my "day job". Then there are the countless hours I've spent working on my own projects including various coin mining setups, a "rack of Pi's" micro-compute cluster, and a multitude of server install/configs for improving my craft. Oh, there also the household Plex server and network attached storage stashed underneath.
Setup: 54"x24" upper tabletop for monitors, desk toys, etc. 48"x24" lower sliding keyboard-height shelf for keyboards, mice/trackballs, papers, etc. Like several others, I have a window nearby so I can see outside and enjoy the ambient light. Said light played havoc with this photo. 
This configuration has served me well for ~20 years with only materials improvements along the way as we've upgraded flooring, furniture, etc. but the configuration has not changed. The most recent addition is motorized legs to make it adjustable to stand-up height (thank you Praecipio Consulting wellness stipend ) and the donation of one of the pair of 29" monitors to my younger daughter who finished her Masters degree and moved back in while looking for a job. Thinking of replacing the monitors with a 46-55" curved screen UHD-TV - woohoo!!
My Setup:
Had to improvise a little on monitor stands. Home phone on the wall, VPN phone to office on the desk. with a bluetooth headset connected to it. And the fidget spinner, for those long conference calls.
Did force me to clean up my desk. You should have seen it before.
Best investment of my life - spent $500 to buy a desk that has a mechanism to raise up/down.
My temporary setup looks like this.
This is, indeed, improvised. Most interesting fact is that for some special task a setup with two monitors (24" each) is absolutely useful!
The monitors are what I consider missing the most in the current situation by technically means.
I'm a fully-remotely software engineer for more than a year now, this is my workplace from home, very messy haha :
