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I've been back WFH for the last couple of weeks, there isn't much work going on so I've not exactly been productive , got to do some this week and am being re-furloughed next week.
The working from home thread
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Jack of Dubs
I've just started a new job 
and will be working from home for the foreseeable. It's a little strange but I just keep reminding myself to head over to Teams aka the virtual office whenever I have questions.
Work have sent me a new laptop and I've got a second screen, so I'm faced with the question of how best to arrange everything. Should I have the laptop to the side, and use the secondary monitor as my main monitor, plus a keyboard and mouse? Or should I put the laptop underneath the monitor, use the laptop keyboard, and a mouse? Decisions, decisions
What are fellow Urbs doing?
and will be working from home for the foreseeable. It's a little strange but I just keep reminding myself to head over to Teams aka the virtual office whenever I have questions.Work have sent me a new laptop and I've got a second screen, so I'm faced with the question of how best to arrange everything. Should I have the laptop to the side, and use the secondary monitor as my main monitor, plus a keyboard and mouse? Or should I put the laptop underneath the monitor, use the laptop keyboard, and a mouse? Decisions, decisions
What are fellow Urbs doing?
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
Ergonomically speaking, laptop keyboards and mice are a bit of a disaster area. You'd be far better off with a separate keyboard and mouse, then put the laptop wherever feels most comfortable for looking at the screen. Ideally, propped up on something so it's nearer to eye level, because, ergonomically speaking, laptop screens are a bit of a disaster area, too.I've just started a new job
Work have sent me a new laptop and I've got a second screen, so I'm faced with the question of how best to arrange everything. Should I have the laptop to the side, and use the secondary monitor as my main monitor, plus a keyboard and mouse? Or should I put the laptop underneath the monitor, use the laptop keyboard, and a mouse? Decisions, decisions
What are fellow Urbs doing?
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
Depends on how much space you have on the desk/table you are working on. I use a separate larger monitor and flatten the laptop so the screen is facing the ceiling. I use the laptop keyboard as that is fine for me, but may not be for others. Separate wireless mouse as I absolutely loathe laptop trackpads.
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
My husband has started a four week contract this week. Which means I'm having to share MY work space 
and we're having to juggle calls and whatnot. Good job our youngest is such a self-starter (and the elder kid is at school).
and we're having to juggle calls and whatnot. Good job our youngest is such a self-starter (and the elder kid is at school).Oh well, that's me wfh all done then. Back in work on Monday 
Have told boss that there's no way I'm sitting out front though, am gonna be in my little windowless office instead, easily reachable, and safer, though with a longer walk to the door. Gonna get an intercom and door release installed too.
Bye bye lovely freedom.
Have told boss that there's no way I'm sitting out front though, am gonna be in my little windowless office instead, easily reachable, and safer, though with a longer walk to the door. Gonna get an intercom and door release installed too.Bye bye lovely freedom.
Yeh, I manage a business centre with multiple small business occupants, who are taking turns to ask me when I'm back in because they are having to answer the door. Part of my job involves reception work (I do absolutely everything in there) and while some of them have been in over lockdown, now they are pretty much all back in. Boss said if that's the situation, then I should go back in.
Might get a local lockdown anyway the way things are going in the North West.
Yup. I feel sick tbh, scared, stressed and really not wanting to have to go in there again full time, but no avoiding it.
I can see that’s difficult.
Numbers
an ting!
I use my laptop screen aswell as 2 external screens (only 19”s), makes life so much easier.I've just started a new job
Work have sent me a new laptop and I've got a second screen, so I'm faced with the question of how best to arrange everything. Should I have the laptop to the side, and use the secondary monitor as my main monitor, plus a keyboard and mouse? Or should I put the laptop underneath the monitor, use the laptop keyboard, and a mouse? Decisions, decisions
What are fellow Urbs doing?
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
RubyToogood
RubyTwobikes
I've been working from home for a couple of years now. I have my laptop on a stand so it's at eye level, with a separate keyboard and a wireless mouse. The second, bigger screen is off to the right, and I use the "extend display" setting in display settings. That's me though as I'm usually working from several windows at the same time and it's a big help.I've just started a new job
Work have sent me a new laptop and I've got a second screen, so I'm faced with the question of how best to arrange everything. Should I have the laptop to the side, and use the secondary monitor as my main monitor, plus a keyboard and mouse? Or should I put the laptop underneath the monitor, use the laptop keyboard, and a mouse? Decisions, decisions
What are fellow Urbs doing?
I've quite often actually got the laptop unplugged and am nesting on the sofa or putting my feet up in the garden, with just laptop and mouse.
Supine
Newt Member
I was late to a meeting todayapologised, hadn't missed much tbf, then someone turned up even later , only 2 of us were on screen (a lot of people do turn the camera off) . He was calling in from his barge
If you work for amazon don’t you just turn up for the meeting at some point between 1pm and 6pm.
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
or put a card under the door saying you tried to come to the meeting and will try again tomorrow...
(although think you might have got the wrong marty here)
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
You got the wrong Marty
Yuwipi Woman
Whack-A-Mole Queen
I had to run into the office to pick up some paperwork. I haven't been in the building since March 5. I think my boss was tempted to hug me. All of my coworkers who remain in the office were glad to see me, even the ones who don't like me very much. It was odd seeing the technical department dark. My desk was exactly as I had left and someone had been kind enough to water my plant.
a_chap
When the world came apart, where were you?
When video conference meetings first became An Actual Thing I bought a pack of fake comedy moustaches and beards. I wore a different one each meeting - and I had the video enabled!!
It's shaped itself to your own personal contours.
NoXion
Craicy the Squirrel
So it looks like I'll be heading back into the office on the 29th. There's a whole bunch of new things and restrictions that, while sensible, make working there sound like fucking misery. No microwaves, no fridges, no tea and coffee provided (fuck this one in particular), and more besides. Plus travelling to work means having to deal with fuckwits on public transport. I'd honestly prefer to continue working from home.
Fuck.
Fuck.
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
Or BigDaftie has shaped him/herself to it! I've a feeling that's what has happened to me, as I Max Wall my way from office to kettle....
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
Seeing as I'll be working from home for the foreseeable, I've bought a new significantly bigger monitor. Works a treat, like being at the pictures. Now tempted to buy a proper office chair rather than using a kitchen chair.
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