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Name: Isabel E.Location: Quezon City, PhilippinesOccupation: Law Student, Full-time MomRoom size: 12 m² (129 ft²)Cost of the setup: ~$1,5K (₱78,9K)Social media: InstagramHello! Tell us a bit about yourselfI’m Isa or Bellie, as I’m known on my Instagram page bellie.welly.I’m a full-time law student at Arellano University School of Law and a mother of a 3-year-old.I also do a little content creation on the side with my studygram, which I started early into the pandemic as a form of accountability for my studying.It was also around this time when study with me videos and silent vlogs were starting to become a…

Name: Katie EckstromLocation: Jersey City, NJ, the United StatesOccupation: Marketing DirectorRoom size: 18,5 m² (199 ft²)Cost of the setup: $1,3KSocial media: Instagram, LinkedInHello! Tell us a bit about yourselfMy name is Katie Eckstrom!I’m the Marketing Director at Plugable Technologies. Over the past five years, I’ve built a small but mighty 15-person marketing team from the ground up.I launched more than thirty successful products on Amazon globally and have recently started expanding my expertise into the B2B e-commerce space.One month after graduating from UW Foster Business School with a degree in Marketing, the start-up that hired me let me go for…

Name: Dreamland GemLocation: North East England, UKOccupation: Community Manager for Nintendo Life, Push Square & Pure XboxSocial media: Instagram, TwitterHello! Tell us a bit about yourselfHey, I’m Gem! Video game lover & artist from the UK.I’m the Community Manager over at Nintendo Life, Push Square & Pure Xbox. I help support and grow our incredible communities alongside managing social media platforms.In my spare time, I can be found posting on social media, probably talking about Kirby.Gem’s desk setup was inspired by the titular fictional character of the Kirby video games series by NintendoTake us through your setup Item Model Monitor…

Name: Jakub FlizikowskiLocation: Bydgoszcz, PolandOccupation: High School studentRoom size: 12 m² (129 ft²)Cost of the setup: ~$4KSocial media: Instagram, RedditHello! Tell us a bit about yourselfHi! I’m Kuba Flizikowski. I would like to introduce myself and share a little of my world with you.I’m a student at a high school N°6 in Bydgoszcz, Poland, the city where I was born and live now.I like to describe myself as someone who is interested and involved in computer graphics — whether it’s vector/raster graphics, 3D or even movie editing. All of these things are my passion and hobby.Kuba’s workspace has a dark…

SPONSORED Being productive at home is about getting the right things done, not everything done. That’s why we built Bento Focus. Download Bento for free What’s one item in your workspace that you cannot imagine yourself without?A decent monitor? A pair of noise-cancelling headphones? Or maybe an ergonomic keyboard?We challenged people around the globe to think about that one thing that matters to them the most when working from home and share the answer with us. No matter how small or big, expensive or not.Let’s see what they came up with.Mechanical Keyboard“If there is one thing that I cannot live…

Name: NicholasLocation: Kelowna, CanadaOccupation: Software Developer and UI/UX designerRoom size: 24,5 m² (264 ft²)Cost of the setup: ~$7K (including the chair, speakers, monitors, iPad, PC, etc.)Social media: InstagramHello! Tell us a bit about yourselfHi! I’m a software developer and UI/UX designer that enjoys getting into the whys and hows of user interaction with the software.I have been working professionally in this field for a little over three years now and have been working from home for roughly two of those years.When I was younger, I was completely convinced that I was going to grow up and become an architect.I would…

Name: Colin ChangLocation: Cambridge, UKOccupation: Producer (Video Games Industry)Room size: 9 m² (97 ft²)Cost of the setup: $6,1K (£5K)Social media: Instagram, TwitterHello! Tell us a bit about yourselfHi everyone. I’m Colin from the UK.I’m a producer in the video games industry for a developer called Flavourworks based in London. We’re best known for a title that came out a few years ago initially on PS4 called Erica.When I was in high school, I found that this was a viable career. I studied at Abertay in Dundee, Scotland.Ever since Colin was a kid, he’s always wanted to work in video games.…

Name: Josiah MontassiLocation: Melbourne, AustraliaOccupation: Part-time retail sales rep by day, Entrepreneur by night; Student at RMIT (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology)Room size: 4 m² (43 ft²)Cost of the setup: $6K (~$8,6K AUD)Social media: Instagram, Twitter, YouTubeHello! Tell us a bit about yourselfFirstly, I’d like to say thank you for this opportunity to share my setup and story here on MakerStations.ioI’ve been working in retail for the last three years in Melbourne. Two years before that, I was a DJ working for an entertainment agency.The biggest takeaway from working in these jobs was learning to communicate effectively with people.In my…

Double-decker bus drivers were twice as likely to have heart attacks as their bus conductor colleagues, who spent most of the day on their feet. That’s what researchers found in 1949.In 2018, the American Journal of Public Health reported that sitting down for more than eight hours can increase the risk of chronic diseases by 10-20%.At the same time, the research that assessed the health impact of standing desks, concluded: 47% of participants reported a reduction of discomfort in the upper back, shoulder or neck; 88% said that standing desks were convenient to use; 65% reported increased productivity; 65% reported…

Generous workspaces with multiple monitors, extra-long desks, and different lighting scenarios are great for productivity.But what if you don’t have room for a full-size home office? This is especially true for those living in big cities like London, Paris, San Francisco or Tokyo.Limitations spur creativity.Challenges we’re facing in our home offices can help us explore unconventional ideas and new ways of working we wouldn’t have arrived at otherwise.We asked fellow makers all over the world to share their challenges, successes and tips for working at a small desk or in a confined space.Here is what they said.Consider pegboardsDesk size: 119×61…