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There is zero need for millions of office drones to be on the road daily. (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Some people don't have the space at home to set up a working area and really want to just go to an office that their employer pays for, and that's fine.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

This is why coworking spaces exist.

I don't know in other countries but it is working quite well in France, you can get a subscription to the closest working space and have a desk, meeting rooms ... To work remotely.

I like that it gives a separation between home and work but without long commute.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This, and I do a lot of gaming on my pc, have a nice setup etc, usually not great trying to work there (don't have space for another desk and can't really justify having two sets of monitors, keyboard etc

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Why do you need all that? I have my work laptop sitting at the back of my desk. Most monitors have two inputs. I've got an older 1080 with HMDI+DVI and a newer 1440p with DP/2xHDMI.

So I have the laptop in HDMI on both screens (it needed a USBC to HDMI cable for one of the outputs), and a simple USB3 switch for the mouse+keyboard.

So when I'm working I fire up the laptop, switch the USB over to that and swap the screens to the HDMI inputs. When I'm done working I can fire up the desktop, swap inputs and USB and in seconds I'm switched over.

I've been doing it this way for years and years now.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That's normally what I do, the problem is the context for me, I sometimes prefer just sitting across the room with a laptop so I'm in a slightly different environment

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

It can help draw a line I'd agree, but I've gotten used to it now I think. I used to have it worse. I operated out of the bedroom for the first few years I was remote and that wasn't good at all. The new house had a bedroom that was really too small to be a bedroom. So it became an office room.