Home office equipment list
Ordered by regret. Buy down the list, and stop wherever the budget stops: everything below the second group is comfort rather than necessity.
31 items
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The items
- Buy these properly
- Adjustable chair with lumbar support
- Desk at the right height for you, not a dining table
- Monitor, or a laptop stand plus a screen
- External keyboard
- Mouse or trackpad
- Cheap and high value
- Desk lamp with a warm bulb
- Wired earbuds with a microphone
- Extension lead with enough sockets
- Cable ties or a cable tray
- A footrest, or a box that works as one
- Wrist rest, if you type all day
- Connections
- USB-C hub or dock, matched to your laptop
- Display cable of the right kind, checked twice
- Ethernet cable long enough to actually reach
- Spare charger, so one lives at the desk
- Paper and storage
- Notebook
- Pens that work×4
- A drawer or box for cables
- Printer, only if you truly print
- Shredder, if you handle anything with your address on it
- Comfort, honestly optional
- A plant
- A rug, which also cuts the echo
- Second screen
- Standing desk converter
- Better webcamOnly after the light. A cheap camera in good light beats an expensive one in bad light.
- A door sign for when you are on a call
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Questions people ask
- What should I buy first for a home office?
- The chair. It is the only item you are in contact with for eight hours, and it is the one people buy last and replace first.
- Do I need a second screen?
- If you compare two things all day, yes, and it is the cheapest large improvement after the chair. If you write or read all day, a single good screen is better.