Office Move - At Home!
Sep. 7th, 2022 01:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerOffice moves used to be a regular thing. Employees' desk locations would be shifted around whenever there was a company reorg or a change in which buildings the company owned/leased. At one company I had 3 offices in 4 years. At another I had 3 offices in 6 months.
All that became much less of an issue when I switched to partial remote work 8-9 years ago, and a complete nonissue when I switched to 100% remote 4 years ago. Until now. I had an office move last night!
Last night I moved my home office location to a different part of the house. With the hot weather we're experiencing and warnings from the state power grid of rolling blackouts yesterday afternoon I figured downstairs would be better.
We live in a 3 storey townhouse. Our regular home office is on the top floor. It's always at least a little warmer there than on lower floors. On hot summer days, and especially in the afternoon when the sun is on that side of the house, the office is over 80° even when the thermostat on the middle level of the house is set to 71°. Rather than suffer in the heat or try to fight physics I decided to move my workspace temporarily to a table in our living room. Now I can set the AC to 73° or 74° during the daytime to save a bit of energy and not suffer by sweating buckets upstairs.
BTW, the desk I've moved to is one Hawk has used for her crafting for a few years. She graciously moved her jewelry, stones, and tools aside last night so I could set up my workspace there. This is a temporary move because a) I have no intent to displace her crafting but also b) I don't want to keep my remote work area in the living room long-term. I intend to move back upstairs when the heat wave subsides.
All that became much less of an issue when I switched to partial remote work 8-9 years ago, and a complete nonissue when I switched to 100% remote 4 years ago. Until now. I had an office move last night!
Last night I moved my home office location to a different part of the house. With the hot weather we're experiencing and warnings from the state power grid of rolling blackouts yesterday afternoon I figured downstairs would be better.
We live in a 3 storey townhouse. Our regular home office is on the top floor. It's always at least a little warmer there than on lower floors. On hot summer days, and especially in the afternoon when the sun is on that side of the house, the office is over 80° even when the thermostat on the middle level of the house is set to 71°. Rather than suffer in the heat or try to fight physics I decided to move my workspace temporarily to a table in our living room. Now I can set the AC to 73° or 74° during the daytime to save a bit of energy and not suffer by sweating buckets upstairs.
BTW, the desk I've moved to is one Hawk has used for her crafting for a few years. She graciously moved her jewelry, stones, and tools aside last night so I could set up my workspace there. This is a temporary move because a) I have no intent to displace her crafting but also b) I don't want to keep my remote work area in the living room long-term. I intend to move back upstairs when the heat wave subsides.
