9 Products that every home worker should have in their home office
Working from home requires a different range of products,
tools, gadgets, and bits and bobs compared to working in the office.
It stands to reason of course, that working from home, needs
different tools, gadgets, and products. Because, if you are going to work from
home, you want it to be comfortable, pleasant, and hopefully fit your
tastes.
Laptop
Now it goes without saying. That if you are going to be
working from home on your computer, you are going to need a computer. Most home
workers use laptops as they are versatile, easy to carry around.
Personally, I have used avoid a variety of brands down the
years for my laptops and this has included Compaq, Hewlett Packard, and Dell.
However, my fiancé uses a Lenovo, and she raves about it.
This Ideapad from Lenovo looks
great for a home worker.
Keyboard and Mouse
Every worker needs a keyboard and mouse, they are a must. Home
workers need a keyboard and mouse is for ergonomics and occupational health
reasons.
Typing on a laptop short-term is fine. Typing eight hours a
day, daily, can be, for me at least quite tiring on the wrists, arms, back and
neck.
Using a mouse and a keyboard, I find to be far more ergonomically
sensible for long-term home working.
I am personally using this keyboard
and mouse combination.
Alternatively, this mouse
and keyboard set is also highly rated.
Headsets
Whether you are making a short telephone call to a colleague,
sitting on a very, very long Zoom call to just listening to some music while typing
away doing some routine work. Office headsets are a must for any homeworker as
they can help you make calls, they can help you too cut outside distractions, they
can help you to show other people that you are currently working, and not to
disturb them.
Headsets are valuable for any they can also make you feel really cool if they are the right type of
headset.
Light Ring
Now light rings used to be the sole territory of people who
worked in makeup, makeup artists, and YouTubers. Since the pandemic, the amount
of video calls has grown at a scale no one could have imagined, home image and
lightning quality have become important for many home workers.
Now when we ordered our light ring it was from AliExpress. To be fair, it gets the job done. There are two types of light rings, firstly you
have free-standing light rings and
secondly, you have the laptop-mounted light
rings.
There are benefits to both types of light rings, for most
home workers who are using the light ring to make their internal home working
Zoom/Team calls presentable a laptop-mounted light
ring like this will suffice.
Laptop Stands
Now, laptop stands sound trivial, but they are a very
important product that every home worker should have. Why? Because Laptop
stands to make a great change to how you can work ergonomically when combined with
a mouse and keyboard.
A laptop stand allows you to prop your laptop up so that you
can use the keyboard and mouse whilst keeping the laptop screen closer to eye level, that will stop you can hunching over your laptop and will help with back pain.
This laptop stands from BoYata and looks stylish and effective.
Whiteboard
Every home office and every home worker in a home office
needs a whiteboard, why is that? Because whiteboards are:
·
Cool.
·
They are funky.
·
Great at visualizing work.
· Keeping track of projects.
Whiteboards are really useful and currently in my office, I
do not have one and I really do miss not standing by its marker in hand
thinking up a solution.
This whiteboard is the best
reviews on Amazon.
Desk Fan
When you are reading this, it might be winter, it might be spring or it might be a heatwave, and if it is a heatwave, you will need a desk fan.
Now, you do not have to get a fancy desk fan (like this one) you can buy a great USB desk fan for a couple of pounds from Poundland. You will have to pop into the store to purchase them.
Giant Stress Brain
I love my giant stress brain, it sits on my desk, it looks
great, and it acts as a prompt to get me to ‘think’ and when I get really
stressed, I can give it a squeeze.
Get your own Giant Stress Brain
(or similar stress toys).
Coffee Machine
Now, the coffee machine at work tells you a lot about the
coffee tastes of senior management. If you have a 20p coffee machine, that
dispenses plastic cups it says one thing.
If you have a super-awesome-amazing coffee machine it says
another.
Your home office would look a little weird if it had a coffee
vending machine in it. A high-end coffee machine filled the room (or the
kitchen) with the sweet, sweet smell of coffee. Personally, unless I have had 5
coffees in the morning I can barely function. I think I may have a coffee
addiction.
Currently, at Home Working Henry HQ (fancy name for my gaff)
we have a Krups.
Mini fridge
Now last, but by no means least, is the mini-fridge. No home office is complete without a home office that has some ice-cool drinks on tap
for celebrating a great win at work, or just to cool down during a heatwave.
If you are experiencing a heatwave right now, we have an article of great
products for home workers to keep cool you might be interested in.
This mini-fridge I think would look excellent in any home office.
Home Offices
In some respects, home offices are very similar to offices
at work, however, you have the option to make the place more to your tastes both,
in productivity terms and in design and aesthetics looks. Go make yourself comfortable,
make yourself productive and get a quality cat
poster!
What are your thoughts on these products?
Let us know in the comment section below, what you think is the key gadget you cannot live without.
