Quick question for everyone who wasn't fully remote before march:

What kind of setup did your company provide? Did you have nice ergonomic chairs/desks? Monitors higher res than 1080p? Mechanical keyboards? How powerful was your workstation?

Before March:
- i7, 32GB, 1TB Laptop
- Dual 1920x1080 monitors
- chair
- desk + draws
- good light levels
- nice city views!
- 1 hour commute

- Now:
- same laptop
- 1 shitty 1920x1080 monitor with a bad backlight and horrendous color / contrast levels.
- shitty chair
- desk that's to low
- bad light
- same old view of my front yard
- 0.5 second commute.

I should probably put mine out there if I'm asking others

i7 16gb laptop
mesh chair
non adjustable desk
adjustable monitor stands
2 1080p monitors
quality membrane keyboard
fantastic natural light and air quality

Since march I've kitted out my home setup with 2x 1440p monitors and I don't know if I can go back to 1080. The main reason I ask is I want to know if anyone out there has 1440p monitors at work. A lot of workplaces are weird about byo hardware too. So oftentimes you're just stuck with whatever they got a nice deal on from the hardware wholesaler

I choose the hardware, so naturally everyone gets good shit:

- loaded Lenovo x1 gen 2 extremes, 1tb nvme, 64gb
- 2x 16:10 1440p 28"
- desks deep enough to accommodate them
- tb3 dock
- nice private office in a wework facility
- swag computer backpack (timbuk2 authority, no $40 dell swissgear neckbeard special)
- rocketbook
- personal jetbrains APP license (one of our perks)
- decent enough chairs, no one seems to care about that on our team

I just let everyone take their shit home when we broke for covid.

I had a regular low end laptop, bought myself a nice chair and noise cancelling headphones. One of the companies I worked for later sent a nice high end laptop later.

MacBook Pro. Decently powerful but the exact specs slip my mind at the moment. At work I had 2 4k monitors, an okay-but-not-amazing chair, and I was just using one of those Apple wireless keyboards and a touchpad. I had the option to request a sit/stand desk but didn't, because I had one at my previous job and rarely bothered standing.

After going remote, I kept the laptop and that's about it. I have my own 4k monitor at home but I don't use it for work. I have a crappy chair that I've been meaning to replace and I'm usually just working with the laptop and no other peripherals.

Chairs - normal. Desks - ergo. Mech kbd - ...Why...? Ofc no. Monitors >1080 - no: I had 2x 1920v1080px.

Lappy: dell precision 5xxx-something. I7 hexacore, 32G ram, 512ssd

although I've capped my cpu to 3.1ghz -- 4.6 causes thermal issues far too often. Also I don't need that much horsepower with Linux anyway.

Lots of office perks

None. Still expected to work at the office.

@Inxentas 😟