If you have a shared "office" space with your roommate or partner how do you set it up?
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If you have a shared "office" space with your roommate or partner how do you set it up?
Do you sit next to each other?
Most of the time when I'm relaxing at home I'm at the computer. (I kind of don't even agree with calling a space an "office" just because there is a computer. I'm not working. I'm playing a game, or drawing or watching videos or reading.)
I like to talk to my husband now and then. And we can lean over to see each other's screens.
How do you set up your "office?"
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If you have a shared "office" space with your roommate or partner how do you set it up?
Do you sit next to each other?
Most of the time when I'm relaxing at home I'm at the computer. (I kind of don't even agree with calling a space an "office" just because there is a computer. I'm not working. I'm playing a game, or drawing or watching videos or reading.)
I like to talk to my husband now and then. And we can lean over to see each other's screens.
How do you set up your "office?"
@futurebird this is absolutely adorable.
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@futurebird this is absolutely adorable.
We like it a lot! But, I'm always ready to spend some time thinking about how a space can work better.
Both the side by side and facing each other set ups seem kind of less appealing.
I wonder if we sat on the other side of the desks, inside the corner? Hmmm.
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If you have a shared "office" space with your roommate or partner how do you set it up?
Do you sit next to each other?
Most of the time when I'm relaxing at home I'm at the computer. (I kind of don't even agree with calling a space an "office" just because there is a computer. I'm not working. I'm playing a game, or drawing or watching videos or reading.)
I like to talk to my husband now and then. And we can lean over to see each other's screens.
How do you set up your "office?"
@futurebird It did not work.
If I had any noise playing, at all, she would get angry with me. Even if I asked if noise was okay. If I wore headphones she suddenly became very talkative so I was getting interrupted every few minutes.
I'm not saying it was deliberate, but it sure felt like she just plain didn't want me around.
Kind of a metaphor for our marriage, really.
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@futurebird It did not work.
If I had any noise playing, at all, she would get angry with me. Even if I asked if noise was okay. If I wore headphones she suddenly became very talkative so I was getting interrupted every few minutes.
I'm not saying it was deliberate, but it sure felt like she just plain didn't want me around.
Kind of a metaphor for our marriage, really.
Aw. That sucks.
We have an unspoken "no sounds" rule, we both use headphones, but only in one ear so we can hear each other when we suddenly need to say "look at this!"
It's mostly him showing me a motorcycle, a stock or transportation statistics and me showing him politics or ants.
Finding the ideal earbuds so there is no shouting or waving needed was hard.
But "co-computing" isn't probably comfortable for everyone. You both have to agree on how it is I guess.
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If you have a shared "office" space with your roommate or partner how do you set it up?
Do you sit next to each other?
Most of the time when I'm relaxing at home I'm at the computer. (I kind of don't even agree with calling a space an "office" just because there is a computer. I'm not working. I'm playing a game, or drawing or watching videos or reading.)
I like to talk to my husband now and then. And we can lean over to see each other's screens.
How do you set up your "office?"
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@futurebird For years we had adjacent desks, side by side. Two abreast is the best, as in the song. After we moved to the bigger house each of us got their own computer room.
The more I think about it the more it seems that how a "co-computing space" is set up needs to be carefully tailored to how people want to spend time together.
Do you like to have someone next to you working on something but mostly ignoring you? I like that. But for some people that could be miserable.
Do you want to sit side by side and play the same game at the same time with the sound on? Then watch the same videos? Too much for me.
It's a big set of decisions.
