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Home office

Setting up

Getting it working properly the first time.

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White desk in a dim room with two dark monitors, wireless keyboard and mouse, and an open laptop — A docked laptop beside two external monitors is the most common way to build a three-screen desk.Photo: Federal Bureau of Investigation · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons · Open source page

White desk in a dim room with two dark monitors, wireless keyboard and mouse, and an open laptop

Setting up

The six desk measurements that set up a home office properly

Screen distance and height, elbow height, seat depth, footrest and standing height. Six numbers from a tape measure, each tied to a published figure.

Updated 3/11/2026 · 8 min

Photo: Federal Bureau of Investigation · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons