Amid the continuing global spread of novel coronavirus and its resulting disease COVID-19, more companies are encouraging -- and in some cases requiring -- employees to work from home. As someone who's been doing it for more than 15 years, I've assembled a modest, effective and surprisingly affordable home workstation that's also fairly easy to set up and break down. (I usually work at the family dining room table and clear everything out before everyone else comes home for dinner.)
In addition to a full-size keyboard and mouse, an external monitor is a fundamental component for any self-respecting home work setup. If your work involves looking at two or more documents simultaneously, referring to multiple browser windows or scrolling through spreadsheets, you're going to get a lot more done gazing at an LCD with a decent screen size than squinting at your 13-inch (or even 15-inch) laptop display.
