> There's no way I would request to an employer that I have a special keyboard just for me Why not? > or try to reconfigure software to support it. Why not?

> There's no way I would request to an employer that I have a special keyboard just for me Why not? > or try to reconfigure software to support it. Why not? If there's a much better alternative out there that can make you more productive - and Dvorak has been one of those things for me - your employer should be jumping up and down in joy at throwing however many $10 keyboards at you as you're asking for. There are also plenty of USB devices that convert between the two, or keyboards with hardware switches. Or, of course, in software. I use AutoHotkey, because keyboard layout switching in Windows is completely broken, and it works pretty well. If that's your excuse for not using Dvorak rather than anything else, you're doing both yourself and your employer a huge disservice, especially if you're going to take that attitude to other things.