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Re: Ori Pocket Office

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An interesting consideration: using something like this might have negative tax implications. In Australia, you can claim home office expenses by one of two methods: fixed rate, or actual cost. As well as being very convenient, the fixed rate method is typically going to be quite advantageous (certainly has always been for me—my actual costs are quite slight), as it’s 52¢ of deductions per hour, which is about a thousand dollars for a full-time year. But to go with the fixed rate method, you have to have a dedicated work area—if it’s an area of the house that would already be being lit and heated or cooled or whatever, it’s assumed the actual cost is negligible. I don’t believe this thing would count as a dedicated work area, so if you file your taxes honestly it could easily cost you most of a thousand dollars of taxable income per year; depending on your income, this could effectively make using this office cost you $200–400 a year, compared with using a dedicated room (of course, if you don’t have a spare room to dedicate to the purpose—).

Source: https://www.ato.gov.au/individuals/income-and-deductions/ded...

(This year there’s also a “shortcut method” which I presume is due to lots of COVID-19 working from home, at 80¢ per hour including all costs, so no claiming phone or internet costs on top of it as in the fixed rate method, and no dedicated work area required.)

Re: Ori Pocket Office

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post #3

Looked for price, but it looks like a "if you have to ask, you can't afford it" situation

It looks like their business model isn't to sell to consumers at all, but sell to big urban property development. This implies they don't do one off installations, but negotiate to get these in many/all units in a new or renovated development. I'm sure they would build one for an individual condo unit or homeowner for the right price (which might look like the same price as a 15 unit installation or something...)

Re: Ori Pocket Office

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post #38

I have two questions (after "cats: how does it deal?" which is answered in other comments, kinda-sorta): 1. Where does the chair go when the Pocket Office is closed? (Illustration shows a generic office chair: I'm not sure there's space in there for an Aeron, much less anything really funky). 2. What is this "work/life balance" the designers seem so keen on enforcing? (sarcasm). And why do they think that after a day…

You can see there's a cutout in the back for the chair, there's enough room for the chair in the air pocket when the office is collapsed.

Re: Ori Pocket Office

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post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The video shows a safety feature which stops the motion if it bumps into something. Looks like it's just simple detection of excessive resistance to the drive motor. Maybe be careful if you have any small pets?

But can you easily differentiate between something which is pushed by the wall and something heavy that is on the shelf ? Also granted you can, my instinctive reaction, the instinctive reaction is IMO try to get out, not push against the wall. Seems to me it's not such a simple problem to solve unless you are ok with (i) some level of discomfort (ii) getting pets stuck inside and traumatised for life (granted the dev…

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Re: Ori Pocket Office

#65

I think they missed an opportunity for a great product; let me explain. You only needed to add the ability to "enclose" your office space with some sort of sound-proof film or panel, and voilà, a much more interesting piece of furniture. The current Ori simply offers the ability to neatly "collapse" the "mess" of a home office, and substitute it with a wall-mounted TV piece of furniture. Ok, fine, but... Meh. Instead…

good idea, except sound proof requires thickness and density.

no such thing as a sound-proof film, sadly.

Re: Ori Pocket Office

#67

I think they missed an opportunity for a great product; let me explain. You only needed to add the ability to "enclose" your office space with some sort of sound-proof film or panel, and voilà, a much more interesting piece of furniture. The current Ori simply offers the ability to neatly "collapse" the "mess" of a home office, and substitute it with a wall-mounted TV piece of furniture. Ok, fine, but... Meh. Instead…

good idea, except sound proof requires thickness and density. no such thing as a sound-proof film, sadly.

Towel cloth is actually pretty good. Not a film, but quite effective when in layers.

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post #13

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Then this product would fail. People with deep pockets can afford space.

Space is expensive in many cities. In my area, a 2 bedroom rents for around $2500. A 3 bedroom is more like $3500. So that's a $12k annual difference.

And now with remote they don't need to pay the premium of the city.

Re: Ori Pocket Office

#69
post #34

My current office pretty much looks like this, except that the walls don't move (I have a standing desk opposite my real desk: https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2020/07/19/1630 ). I quite like this setup, really, although I'd prefer to see some sort of rails (ceiling and floor) to make sure it doesn't topple.

This - toppling - was also my first thought. However on further examination I reckon the rail that it opens along will be pretty ferociously fastened and provide the required stability.

Re: Ori Pocket Office

#70

If the office was closed, and I needed something out of the office cabinets, I would not like to have to open up the whole thing just to get the item I needed.

With the right size room, I would probably leave it accessible most of the time and only close it off when hosting guests or I otherwise need the extra space. Of course, if you have that size room available to you, you probably have better options than this already.
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