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Ask HN: Why is it legal for a company to only give employees desktop computers?
Companies should be required by law to give you a notebook computer or both a desktop computer and a notebook computer.
Sitting in one place all the time to do your work on a desktop computer isn't good for your health.
- tjr 5y agoI currently have both a laptop and a desktop from my company. Other than a handful of occasional keystrokes, I sit while using the laptop also. A standing desk might be a better option, but that would work with either desktop or laptop. Getting walking breaks in throughout the day would probably be good (and I do, whether if using a desktop or laptop computer).
- vlod 5y agoHow do you get this impression? Are you sure it's just not company policy? A lot of places give their employees laptops.
- josephcsible 5y agoOP is upset that it isn't legally required for every employer to give laptops to all of their employees.
- zhte415 5y agoSome companies don't even give you a computer or place to sit!
- logicalmonster 5y agoI'm not sure that I understand the complaint here. Can't standing desks also work with desktop computers? And even if you're forced to sit down to work, can't you take a reasonable amount of breaks to walk around and stretch your legs?
- amichail 5y agoA notebook computer would allow you to work in different places, which would be better for your mental health that being in the same place all the time when working.
- Khelavaster 5y agoThen, what other things would a company be required to do for employees' mental health?
- uberman 5y agoCompanies should be compelled by law to give employees laptops? That seems a bit of a stretch.
- smt88 5y agoBuy yourself a tablet or Chromebook and remote-desktop into your company machine.
- ss108 5y agoLol what kind of country do you live or want to live in where the government prescribes what kind of computers a company can or can't give its employees?