| so even if you have a great computer at home, you'll be working from your laptop. Many of us at the kitchen table. U... Think you'll just go buy a nice monitor from Best Buy and dock it with your laptop? You have a great computer at home, but it has no monitor and you use it from the kitchen table? I have a "decent" computer at home, and I plug my work laptop into the monitor when I work from home. You weren't the first to think that; computer monitors are sold out across the city (having 4 giant tech companies all go 100% WFH at the same time will do that). You'd think that living and working in the Seattle area that you'd have heard of a little online retailer based in Seattle called Amazon. They can deliver a name-brand 27" 1920x1080 monitor to you tomorrow for less than $150. Want a nice 32 inch wide screen 3840x2160 like you ahve at work? That's closer to $350 but you can still have it tomorrow. I see lots of monitors in stock there (as well as on Newegg and bhphotovideo, my other go-to online merchants). If I didn't already have a good monitor at home and desk to put it on, I'd just buy a cheap $99 27" monitor and set it up on the kitchen table during the day, then if I no longer needed it after the office re-opened, I'd donate it somewhere. At my company, WFH hasn't been an issue so far -- we have multiple offices and everyone was already used to using Slack and video conference meetings. To be honest, it's even easier to hold a meeting now since no one needs to find a conference room (they are always in short supply). But everyone uses a laptop as their primary computer, if they need something more powerful, they use a cloud VM. |