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- All workers must be paid a living wage for their labor.
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Damn they gave you two monitors? The break room must have a pinball machine.
Yeah but they're both 1080 Acers
Meh, for basic tasking it's better than a single one
Tbh, two monitors don't help me at all. I set up a cool home office during covid with all upgrades I could think of. Hardly ever used the second monitor. I even had difficulties filling my laptop screen with meaningful additional content. Also, neck pain of constantly working with a turned head is real.
The most important upgrade IMHO is a good chair, followed by a USB-C docking station and maybe a robotic arm for the display to adjust height and free some space on the desk
Depends heavily on what exactly you're doing.
The chair, absolutely. But I'll take the second monitor over a docking station any day (what are you even using it for? Connecting a laptop?).
2 monitors, full size keyboard with the numpad, comfortable mouse, and no interruptions.
100% on the chair, I'm waiting for work to pick back up and that'll probably be my first good purchase cause my old piece of crap makes sitting at my computer for the minimal hours I do terrible.
But I live by my multiple monitors. When I'm sorting through receipts, doing payroll, data entry, anything, not having to alt-tab is a godsend. I grabbed 2 28" monitors, a keyboard/mouse, and a laptop dock, and it completely changed my workflow from my 14" laptop screen that I just plug my laptop in and close the lid. I need the laptop for portability, but having my landing setup makes all of my mundane office work so much easier.
Wait they got monitors? I always had to salvage what I could for my own private junk pile or steal it from somebody when they left the company. And a desktop PC? Never in my life it's always fucking laptops because they want to make sure I can work from anywhere
LOL, those are reserved for important people when they come in. They're not for the people that work in the building.
Last place I worked had a ping pong table that never got used by the people that worked there, as well as an Xbox I never saw on
They said I was a power caller
Maybe even a panini press?!
Damn, I'm adding that to my next job hunt requirements.