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📣 kushan2020

What is your home office setup like?


What is your home office setup like?


  👤 mikecoles Accepted Answer ✓
3 monitors: left is email/calendar, center is whatever is being worked on, right is monitoring or reference material.

Workstation computer is off to the right of the monitors.

Two audio monitors placed above the screens, surrounding the center monitor. Mic boom is behind the center monitor. Scarlett USB-ADC is on center monitor stand. Headphones are hung on a desk clamp that was found on Thingiverse.

Green screen is about 10' behind the office chair. MFP and office supplies are behind that.

Network, storage, and dev/household compute are in another room to keep the noise down. Noise isn't loud, but nice to be almost silent in the 'office'.

Plastic mats are under the chair so as not to destroy the floor.

Power is via a strip so everything can be shutdown completely while away.


👤 MattGaiser
Three screens, two monitors and one Windows laptop. The laptop goes in the middle. The one on the left is attached to my Mac mini while the one on the right is attached to the laptop.

I have a gaming chair that was not as comfortable or durable long term as I had hoped. Behind it is a filing cabinet with a printer and usually a water bottle and snacks on top.

The desk is opposite an East facing window, so there are thick curtains to deal with the morning sun.


👤 seanmcdirmid
Company provided Macbook Pro connected to an LG 28" 4K monitor (that also does power via USB-C, yeh!). Mechanic keyboard, wired mouse (because it is plugged into the monitor). Office on ground floor with Lutron motorized blinds, tangerine steelcase gesture chair.

👤 pruthvishetty
3 screens: 2 monitors (Center & Right) and laptop on left. Left screen for tools like slack, calendar, email, meetings, notion etc. Center for active development and right for reference. Mechanical keyboard, trackpad, wired earphones, a book and a pen.

👤 GeneralStrike
I've got a desk with one monitor in an office space I share with my partner, but I still end up working on my laptop from the couch pretty regularly because it's so cosy :)

My back and writs protest.