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What makes something a dedicated office though? The only two things I can think of would be a phone line (not so much these days) and maybe being somewhat separ
by flukus 6y ago
What makes something a dedicated office though? The only two things I can think of would be a phone line (not so much these days) and maybe being somewhat separated/distanced from the rest of the bedrooms and maybe near the front door. That's how I deduced I was an aberration to the family planning from my "bedroom" anyway.
- learn_more 6y agoGood acoustics (low echo) is high on my list, and one of the first things I improve when setting up my home offices.
- ghaff 6y agoFor my situation, it's not even so much about having a door. But having a separated work space/bookshelves (though there are plenty of others throughout the house), lights/audio gear, and generally a separated space that can be pretty messy. In times past, that would be about having lots of paper. Now it's more about having a bunch of computers/cables/etc. isolated from the rest of the house--even if, in practice, I often work elsewhere with a laptop.
- mc32 6y agoWhat makes it an office? A separate room (or at least separated area, dedicated desk and chair, necessary peripherals and paraphernalia, sufficient electrical outlets and opportunity to not be interrupted.
- ashtonkem 6y agoA desk, and being set aside for only work related activities.
- heeen2 6y ago> What makes something a dedicated office though? The only two things I can think of would be a phone line (not so much these days) and maybe being somewhat separated/distanced from the rest of the bedrooms and maybe near the front door. Some work requires an actual workstation with many cores, memory and beefy GPU. Some people work on prototype devices with jigs, serial connections power supplies etc. For some people WiFi does not cut it and you want a nice networking setup. Other people may work with physical documents so there will be a printer, scanner, mail supplies involved.
- madcaptenor 6y agoI think "near the front door" only matters if you're seeing other people in the office. My office is near the front door but I don't actually need it to be. It's actually kind of inconvenient in our present work-from-home reality because my kid hears me on calls and doesn't understand that I can't play right now; in the long term I might set up an office in the basement, far from everything.