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Either you paid for more space or you lost space at your home during the 8 hours you were previously working at an office.
by tshaddox 5y ago
Either you paid for more space or you lost space at your home during the 8 hours you were previously working at an office.
- Dylan16807 5y ago> you lost space at your home during the 8 hours I guess that's true, but I'm not sure why I would care about my home getting slightly smaller when I'm at work. It will affect some people, but I don't know if it's many.
- RHSeeger 5y agoI would expect it impacts a large number of people that work primarily remotely. A lot of us have a home office because working from the kitchen or other shared space just isn't effective. The cost of an extra room (even if a bonus room, not a full bedroom) can increase the cost of a house by a dramatic amount; and then you also have to consider utilities and the like. Every time I've done the math, working from home costs more (for the worker) than going into the office; usually my many thousands of dollars a year.
- Dylan16807 5y agoNeeding a dedicated home office room for various reasons is a big issue but it is not the issue I was responding to. In "Either you paid for more space or you lost space at your home during the 8 hours", a dedicated office is the "paid for more space" side, and I was talking about the "lost space" alternative.
- tshaddox 5y agoNot just when you’re at work, unless you tear down your desk and store it out of sight every single day!
- Dylan16807 5y agoOnly if you got an extra work-only desk. Even then, an extra desk by itself isn't very big.
- tshaddox 5y agoA desk is big if you live somewhere where property and rent prices are high. Like California, for instance.
- Dylan16807 5y agoStill, it's a tenth of what an entire room costs. When you do something like weigh the cost of commuting vs. the cost of that space, a desk is probably going to win. And maybe I'm weird but I'm going to have a desk no matter what.
- tshaddox 5y agoIf you already have a desk that easily accommodates both your work computer and whatever other non-work things you use the desk for, then sure, but you could say the same thing for any new at-home requirements for a job that you just happen to already satisfy. I don't have any reason non-work reason to have living space dedicated to a computer desk, and I suspect that's true for most people.
- Dylan16807 5y ago> I don't have any reason non-work reason to have living space dedicated to a computer desk, and I suspect that's true for most people. How do you typically browse websites at home? Do you play any PC video games? Steam has a ton of users. (And if you use a table, then you could use the same table for working.)
- tshaddox 5y agoHome computer use is limited to my phone and tablet on the couch or in bed. Haven't had a gaming PC (or any Windows computer) since around 2013. I get enough desktop computing exposure at my day job, thank you very much! It's true that PC gaming is as popular as ever, but I suspect its rise has been at least somewhat countered with a decrease in desktop computing at home as smartphones became ubiquitous.
- watwut 5y agoLiterally neither. Same space, nothing changed. I pay maybe more on electricity, but save much more on food and transport.