10 Best Laptops To Work From Home [Don’t Buy This 1!]

You work from home, but who doesn’t these days. That doesn’t narrow down your needs much when searching for the best laptop for working from home. You need a laptop that fits your exact needs (which are different than other WFHers’ needs) and you want well researched, experienced reviews. That’s what you’ll find in this article where we’ve picked the 10 best work-from-home laptops by…

Home Office Storage: The Tidy Buyer’s Guide

  My wife and I have worked from home… together… in the same office… for over five years. In that time, we’ve filled our house with babies (and kids’ stuff) and home office equipment (of which I have a lot). Filled to the gills with two kids and two businesses, we get the importance of nailing our home office storage ideas. But when I’d go…

How To Work From Home With A Baby (& Actually Get Work Done)

I was pregnant with our first child when I quit my corporate job and joined my husband in the work-from-home lifestyle. This was pre-COVID years, so it was a somewhat novel approach for both of us to be at home. Little did we know what we were in for, trying to balance our careers, our relationship, and new parenthood…all in a 1,000-square-foot condo. This article…

Home Office Background Ideas For Zoom Meetings: Complete Guide

You’re ready to improve your home office background for video meetings – enough with the window glare, the slightly made bed, and the poster from ten years ago. You want to present a bit more professionally in Zoom meetings. But on the flip side, you don’t necessarily need the Library of Alexandria behind you. You just need some simple improvements or a backdrop that dresses…

5 Video Conference Backgrounds Reviewed (Avoid These 2!)

You used to jump on video meeting in a hoodie and put it up with the Dallas Cowboys poster over your colleague’s shoulder. But it turns out this work-from-home thing is going to stick and a bad webcam background is the new version of showing up to the office in gym shorts. You’re done showing your guest bed in your home office background or a…

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Working From Home With Kids: Products, Tools & Advice

My dad worked from home for 40 years–using a landline and fax machine–with four sons running around the majority of his career. I remember when he had a phone call and us kids were being too loud, he’d snap his fingers and scowl at us. That was our cue to be quiet. Let’s officially put that down as his top tip: Scowl and snap if…

Sharing A Home Office: 5 Years Of Tangible Advice

My wife and I have shared a home office since 2017. Since then, we’ve gone through a number of changes to where and how we work: First, we both worked full-time from a one-bedroom apartment Then, worked from the road during three months of travel We shared the guest bedroom as our office (and had our first baby) We shared a desk within our bedroom (since…