18 Things Every Healthy and Productive Home Office Needs

While it might be tempting to simply flip open your laptop on the kitchen table, and get to work, we’re not doing our bodies, or our minds any favours.

That’s precisely why companies the world over invest millions into ergonomic, or comfortable, offices for their employees.

Workplace ergonomics have in fact been linked with reducing worker compensation claims by up to 90% (not a small amount when you consider that in Australia alone, companies spend $60 billion on workplace injury and compensation), and improving productivity.

As a writer of several books on several hundred blogs and articles myself, optimising my home set-up has been key to helping me play the long game, without suffering all sorts of deleterious effects on my health.

Given that it is looking likely that the global remote working experiment is set to last for at least several more months, if not longer, it’s worth reflecting on your workspace and investing to safeguard your health and do your best work.

With that, I’ve prepared the following quick and simple stocktake of what the ideal home office set-up includes.

1. Ergonomic Chair

Are you working from your wooden kitchen table chairs? If so, now that we’re about…