I’m curious to see how many people work in their own bedrooms, or have a dedicated or shared room that they use, and how they feel about those arrangements.
Dedicated office room. Makes it easier to leave work behind when day is done.
Same here. Wife also WFH and she has her own office too. We could turn it into a guest room temporarily if we needed though.
I work out of the spare bedroom that I’ve set up as an office space, really helps to be able to close the door on it at the end of the day.
Same. When I first set up the home office, I had envisioned it as my “new computer room”. I moved a bunch of my hobby stuff in there, too.
In practice, I basically don’t enter it unless it’s working hours. And it’s perfect.
I have kids so we bought a dedicated outdoor space. It was about 3k gbp, and I filled it with plants to make it a nice place to procrastinate
I have a small room (originally a children’s room) where I have my computer. I only have one computer, and use it also for private stuff, though.
I work in a corner of my bedroom. I rent so more rooms is pretty expensive and the bedroom is quite large. It works well since it’s sort of a cubby off the main room.
I would prefer a separate space which I had in a previous house but it’s not too bad. With a partner in the same room it sometimes isn’t ideal since I need to take work calls while she’s sleeping or getting ready.
I have a designated corner in my (finished) basement. I’ve been considering moving my desk into my workout room (also basement), just so I can have an office door, but I’m not sure everything will fit. And moving furniture sucks.
After more than 20years of working from home in basements because I needed the bedrooms for my kids. My wife and I both now have first floor offices in the new home we built. It’s been a year and it’s amazing how different I feel when working with real sunlight and being able to look out true windows while on conference calls.
Work In an separate room converted into an office
Office building 4 days a week - home office the 5th
How do you like that hybrid style? Did you choose your days in and out or was that a requirement of your employer?
It’s not bad -I’d prefer a more even split.
But I get to choose my day.
I work in a spare bedroom that has a desk with my workspace and my personal desktop. Also included: my daughters laptop desk, our 25 year old bird, our rarely used dog crate, and all my indoor hobby stuff, so 3D printer, the Cricut my wife never had to learn how to use because she knew I’d be all about a plotter with knives, my fountain pen collection, and my soldering station.
My wife’s a Soldier so we move a bit. I always have dedicated space but haven’t always had a dedicated room. My office has been a corner of a family room, and a section of a dining room.
I currently have a very nice room dedicated just to work.
We purposely moved into a 1-bedroom unit with an office/den. Rent is cheaper than a 2-bedroom but the office can easily be converted into an extra room for guests. The office has no windows though and has a glass sliding door. I can live without a window since I can just take breaks in the living room to get some natural light. I also like that the office is right next to the apartment door so I can immediately hear if anyone knocks or if a package is delivered.
A corner of my master bedroom. It’s not so bad, in terms of how much space it takes, but it does make it so I have to shut everything off at night and then boot it all back up in the morning.
I bought this house in 2019 with no intention of working from home (I always wanted to WFH, but it never panned out with previous employers), only to finally snag a remote position in 2021. It’s good enough.
A dedicated office room. Lets me shut off and get out when I’m not working. And two, I don’t have to worry about a bed in the background when I’m on camera. P.S. I don’t use a bg filter
My husband and I both WFH in our respective roles at different Seattle-area companies. We are both also PC gamers, so we already had desks set up in our living room for co-op play. When Covid happened, we brought home hardware from our employers. We picked up some really nice noise canceling headphones and KVM switches, and the rest is history.
Works great for us, in large part because my work doesn’t involve a ton of meetings. On the rare occasions when we have meetings at the same time, we just communicate to work it out. If one needs their desk for screen sharing or whatever during their meeting, the other takes their meeting as a call on their phone/laptop. In the extremely rare case that we both have “desk meetings” at the same time, I will either try to make my terribly old crusty laptop do the job with fans screaming, or just reschedule mine. I give his desk time priority because his work deals with art and is very visual.
Since Covid “ended,” both of our employers have chosen to support a hybrid model and we have chosen to continue working from home. An arrangement like ours isn’t for everyone, but for us, sharing a workspace with our best friends (each other) goes a long way towards mental health. We’re much, much happier and more comfortable than we were pre-Covid. (Probably I should mention we have three cats, no kids, and air conditioning.)
