Work From Home

My husband and I both WFH in our respective roles at different Seattle-area companies. We are both also PC gamers, so we already had desks set up in our living room for co-op play. When Covid happened, we brought home hardware from our employers. We picked up some really nice noise canceling headphones and KVM switches, and the rest is history.

Works great for us, in large part because my work doesn't involve a ton of meetings. On the rare occasions when we have meetings at the same time, we just communicate to work it out. If one needs their desk for screen sharing or whatever during their meeting, the other takes their meeting as a call on their phone/laptop. In the extremely rare case that we both have "desk meetings" at the same time, I will either try to make my terribly old crusty laptop do the job with fans screaming, or just reschedule mine. I give his desk time priority because his work deals with art and is very visual.

Since Covid "ended," both of our employers have chosen to support a hybrid model and we have chosen to continue working from home. An arrangement like ours isn't for everyone, but for us, sharing a workspace with our best friends (each other) goes a long way towards mental health. We're much, much happier and more comfortable than we were pre-Covid. (Probably I should mention we have three cats, no kids, and air conditioning.)