Updated at 5:25 PM PHT, Published at 4:15 PM PHT,
by
Dennis Cabrera
Money-Saving AI-Ready Workspace Ideas for Your WFH Job/MSME
Optimizing Your WFH AI Job or MSME Workspace to Save Money
Transform your workspace resourcefully to boost productivity and save money. Utilize existing furniture for ergonomic laptop height, benefiting your health and circulation. Supplement with essential wired or wireless accessories like keyboards, computer mice, and USB hubs for a streamlined, AI-ready setup, making work healthier, easier with extra energy, and efficient.
Standing desk or fixture with eye-level laptop height
The ideas given in this blog post are for those who want to be resourceful in their AI-powered work or MSME startup, and save money instead of buying new office furniture. It also suggests ways to arrange whatever is in the home so that a healthy WFH routine is also attained.
We know that working with laptops make one sometimes forget this important detail: the need to balance sitting down, standing up, and moving around a bit.
This is important for health, especially for the spine and shoulder muscles. These muscles get sore from always staying in a sitting position. It can also impede blood circulation.
If one balances sitting down and standing up, a healthier and more agile work direction is established. The eyes can also rest for a few minutes as one can stand and move around.
If a piece of fixture in the house, such as a bookshelf or a movable wood cabinet, these are options to use as a standing desk for a laptop.
That fixture should steadily hold your laptop and its screen at eye-level height, making your standing position straight while you work, and your blood circulation working well.
- This workspace arrangement prevents a sedentary direction in work
- It has certain long-term benefits for one's internal organs and the circulatory system, which is important for the five vital organs of the body; the heart, the brain, the liver, the kidney, and the lungs.
- From a standing desk, it is easier to respond to a doorbell, a phone call, and others in the house or your condominium unit who asks for attention or assistance. It is also easier to attend to the Meralco meter reader at the gate.
- A standing stance from your laptop can give strength and endurance way beyond your midlife and senior years.
Standard office desk: For work with laptop and official paper documents
Beside that fixture that sets your laptop screen at eye-level height, you can also place a standard office desk for both laptop and paperwork.
With a comfortable and ergonomic computer chair, this acts as your main command position. All wireless laptop accessories and other office supplies can be organized here.
A standard office desk can be set up near the standing fixture for greater laptop mobility and easier workflow.
Wired computer keyboard and mouse
A wired computer keyboard and a wired computer mouse can easily be set up here.
A multi-port USB 2.0 hub for a printer set-up can also be added.
This multiport USB 2.0 hub can be useful for any transfer of files between your mobile phone and laptop with a data cable.
Wireless devices: For office desk
A lot of space is needed for working with paper documents and folders. Wireless devices would be practical.
Wireless devices will eliminate the inconvenience of wires interfering with a stack of paperwork.
A wireless keyboard and a ergonomic mouse wireless mouse can easily be set up. Some wireless keyboards are rechargeable and do not need batteries.
Affordable battery-operated wireless mouse packaged with free AA battery
The Hytac 1200dpi wireless optical mouse is a simple and easy plug and play portable device.
There is no need to take extra steps to pair it with a laptop. Just plug the Bluetooth receiver into the USB port of the laptop and right-click the wireless mouse to begin.
Accessories to complete a practical workspace set-up
- Mobile phone stand
- Headset stand
- Wireless earphones or ear buds for both mobile phone and laptop
- Clip-on LED lamps for additional laptop light
- Internet security,
- External webcam
- and Mobile phone stand with light.
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