Ori Pocket Office

Re:Ori Pocket Office by cstross on Sunday November 15, 2020 @08:58AM (#25101211)

I have two questions (after "cats: how does it deal?" which is answered in other comments, kinda-sorta):

1. Where does the chair go when the Pocket Office is closed? (Illustration shows a generic office chair: I'm not sure there's space in there for an Aeron, much less anything really funky).

2. What is this "work/life balance" the designers seem so keen on enforcing? (sarcasm). And why do they think that after a day spent staring at a monitor their users can only relax by staring at a different type of monitor (the kind where there are no input devices and some corporation provides the constant screencasts for a monthly subscription)?

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Re:Ori Pocket Office by brassattax on Sunday November 15, 2020 @09:15AM (#25101318)

Regarding your second question, we have a family room with a TV which doubles as a work-from-home office.. would be nice to be able to hide the office stuff when it's not in use. Also this design (depending on the size of the room) seems to still allow for use of the TV out of the view of the office space.

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Re:Ori Pocket Office by cstross on Sunday November 15, 2020 @11:29AM (#25102369)

My point was, I'd be more impressed if there were options other than "glorified TV stand". (I may be unusual here but I don't really watch TV.)

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Re:Ori Pocket Office by drcode on Sunday November 15, 2020 @12:31PM (#25102927)

You can see there's a cutout in the back for the chair, there's enough room for the chair in the air pocket when the office is collapsed.

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