>An interesting factor is how this is dependent on how confident we can be to continue WFH.
I had this problem and spent a few months working on the couch before buying a desk and office chair - I dropped a few thousand on these things alone. What gave me the confidence was the introduction of a WFH allowance and news a few people around the company had moved to the countryside.
Re:Why Working from Home Will Stick [pdf]
by sokoloff on Sunday January 24, 2021 @12:01PM
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A few thousand on just a desk and a chair? I’m left thinking that desk must be amazing!
Doesn't seem out of the realm of reasonableness. A top office chair will be $1400 or so new. (My Aeron broke fairly near the beginning of all this; took me a few months to be able to get a replacement.) It wouldn't be hard to spend the same on a desk.
Re:Why Working from Home Will Stick [pdf]
by joelbluminator on Sunday January 24, 2021 @08:23AM
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I think we can safely assume a sizable percentage will allow WFH. I mean Facebook, Twitter etc already said this will go beyond covid, and many others will follow.
But of course not everyone will be 100% WFH, many will do a combination probably.
An interesting factor is how this is dependent on how confident we can be to continue WFH.
Like many people, I'm nowhere near prepared to have a good home office, the house is way too tiny. Which was fine when I didn't WFH more than a few days a month.
But I could easily solve that by moving to a cheaper area where I could get a house with enough space for a dedicated home office. But to do that I need to be confident WFH will continue. Hard to predict what to do.
(So what I've done in the interim is lease a small office walking distance from my house, lots of vacancies right now.)