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Re: 38% of remote workers work from bed

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Post by rootusrootus »

throwaway743 wrote: post #50
ekster wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is there a consensus best pick for home office chair at this point?

It's cliche, but the Aeron. Your ass and back will never feel sore or like you need to get up. They're wicked expensive brand new, but I found mine for $200 off Craigslist. Have had it for 3-4 years and it's one of the best purchases I've ever made.

Test out first, if possible, everyone is built differently. For a lot of us the Aeron puts pressure on our legs at the front edge of the seat, and it can become painful. Not something you notice in the first few minutes, but fairly quickly. For those people, the Leap v2 is usually a better option.

Re: 38% of remote workers work from bed

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Post by goodpoint »

bamboozled wrote: post #43
MattGaiser wrote: post #7

> but a whopping 50% still say the pain and discomfort of working from home is enough to send them back to the office. I want a breakdown of remote work preference by dollar amount spent on office chair. I think this would be revealing.

I sit on the floor on a Zafu and Zabuton, as if I'm doing Zen meditation. Good setup costs about $200USD, you will be feeling enlightened in no time.

You can get away for less than 100 USD for a real Zafu and Zabuton, and much less if you make it yourself or improvise with pillows and some foam.

Re: 38% of remote workers work from bed

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Post by rootusrootus »

I have a coworker who works from his bed. He says it's better for his back than any specialized back-friendly chair he has tried yet. I, on the other hand, would be in traction after a couple days trying to work from bed. I really prefer upright posture and a good office chair. In my case a Leap v2, though everyone will have their own preference.

Re: 38% of remote workers work from bed

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Post by goodpoint »

taejavu wrote: post #183
bamboozled wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I sit on the floor on a Zafu and Zabuton, as if I'm doing Zen meditation. Good setup costs about $200USD, you will be feeling enlightened in no time.

You work like this? Like with a laptop on a coffee table?

In Japan millions sit on the floor at a heated table: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kotatsu

Re: 38% of remote workers work from bed

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Post by abledon »

ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #237

I have a standing desk, in the corner of my living room. I've tried other locations, and that hasn't worked. Being here, I don't get the feeling of being "disconnected" from the household. Most importantly, of course, is that it increases my availability to my cats. They are quite efficient at expressing their needs, and I have to be ready to drop everything, in order to attend to said needs. I have a nice chair (a H…

those last 5 sentences made me question If you were making a satirical post... ;)

Re: 38% of remote workers work from bed

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Post by jdavis703 »

visarga wrote: post #142
treebot wrote: post #33

Maybe this is because a lot of tech workers are living in cities? Where space is expensive? There's no reason to live in a city if you work remote.

You might be OK but what about your kids? They need to attend good schools and have good healthcare support where they grow up.

The best hospitals tend to be location in cities. And non-wealthy suburban areas also tend to have mediocre schools.

Re: 38% of remote workers work from bed

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Post by ChrisMarshallNY »

abledon wrote: post #265
ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #237

I have a standing desk, in the corner of my living room. I've tried other locations, and that hasn't worked. Being here, I don't get the feeling of being "disconnected" from the household. Most importantly, of course, is that it increases my availability to my cats. They are quite efficient at expressing their needs, and I have to be ready to drop everything, in order to attend to said needs. I have a nice chair (a H…

those last 5 sentences made me question If you were making a satirical post... ;)

Nope.

I think that our industry (maybe true for all industries) has a very skewed idea of what constitutes "happy."

It was not a voluntary retirement. I love working, and have skills that could earn companies millions of dollars.

It's just that the industry made it quite clear, very quickly, that I am not welcome (you see, I'm -how shall I put this- "chronologically-challenged." I'm older than 35).

So I found a few folks that can't afford nice things, and I'm working with them.

Feel free to check out my work. I manage to stay busy.

Re: 38% of remote workers work from bed

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Post by mgkimsal »

scarecrowbob wrote: post #77

I've been working remote for about 10 years. I've had "real" offices. I've worked in open-plan offices. I've had a home office. I've worked from bed. There are tons of good ways to do it. Lately I swap between a kitchen table and a chair on my porch. I no longer use multiple screens, I've just gotten really fast at swapping windows on my 15" laptop; I've gotten good at figuring out how wide my terminal window breaks…

I've gone the opposite way. I did WFH/remote for ... years, always on a single laptop. I was very mobile - f2f client meetings, work from coffee shop, work from hotels, etc.

In the last year, as travel/f2f was essentially taken off the table, I've moved to laptop with 2 external monitors, and just recently to 'desktop' setup. I still have the laptop, and use it to work from home now and then, but I'm slowly getting used to more screen real estate. It's not even so much 2 monitors, just a much larger main one. 32" vs the 15" has been a big difference, mostly for the better.

But... I had years of comments from a lot of folks about "no idea how you can get anything done from just one laptop - that screen is so small, etc."

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