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What's really been killing us is that there are two of us working from home, and we ideally need two separate home offices in our one-bedroom apartment. Two sta
by legerdemain 5y ago
What's really been killing us is that there are two of us working from home, and we ideally need two separate home offices in our one-bedroom apartment. Two standing desks, two office chairs, multiple monitors. Ideally, not facing into each other's webcams or with direct sunlight falling on someone's workstation for much of the day. This has really eaten into the satisfaction of remote work for us. Either one of us has a crappy, cramped workstation, or we have simultaneous video calls, or one of us gets to stare into the afternoon sun for two hours each day.
- jclulow 5y agoIt isn't an absolute fix, but there are some window tinting kits on Amazon that are relatively cheap and don't permanently damage the windows. Might be worth a try! I have in the last made good use of cardboard to block out unhelpful sun exposure as well in a pinch.
- edrxty 5y agoFair warning, if you want enough tint to make direct line of sight with the sun bearable, you're looking at welding shade 14 or so. Better to just tape up some cardboard
- kube-system 5y agoI know it’s a bit old fashioned, but I use blinds or curtains.
- jacquesm 5y agoThe office I until very recently occupied (now exclusively wfh) had that problem, I just taped a large whiteboard to the window frame. That nicely solved it.
- pieterhg 5y agoGet a new desk that doesn't face the sun?
- legerdemain 5y agoFacing the sun is not an inherent property of a desk, it's that we either have one desk facing the window or we turn our living room into an office. Buying another desk doesn't change this fact.
- randomsearch 5y agoOffices make so much sense. Remote work in the limit just offloads office costs onto the employee. Many people will be happy with that, as they’re privileged to live in big houses with spare rooms, but the young and less well off will suffer. Kinda annoying to hear execs of banks or whatever see remote work as cost cutting. Even if you compensate people for the extra space and wear and tear on their property, you’ll end up further inflating the housing bubble as larger homes are in short supply.
- legerdemain 5y agoThe young and less well off can just move back in with their parents. Most engineers I know come from relative wealth (parents are lawyers/real estate investors/company owners), so a lot of my peers are doing exactly that. I think it's mostly HackerNews types who believe that losing free meal service and providing their employer with free office space makes them truly free.
- winrid 5y agoThis is a terrible idea, especially if you want to have any sort of romantic life...