Instead Of Holiday Gift Ideas, How About Post Holiday Sales Ideas for Remote Workers?

By Stephanie Diana Eubank

Usually, this time of year, we are all bombarded with gift idea lists for Christmas.  I am a working mom that primarily works remotely, so a lot of those gift ideas that people publish just sound like something to crack a polite smile. Instead, I focus on what items an average work-from-home mom like me would want or need as we come to the post-Christmas sales.

• Wireless ergonomic mouse and keyboard.
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    • I personally love this cause fewer cords are great, and I can hold up my phone or tablet. Also, yes, I love most of my stuff being pink. 
• Speaking of tablets… the Amazon fire HD 10-inch tablet is awesome.
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    • I love this tablet.  I teach at a college campus, don’t have the luxury of keeping my materials in the class, and don’t always have enough time to run to my office and back.  So, keeping items lightweight is the key to being ready to teach.  I order all the textbooks for myself to teach, and as a Doctoral student on kindle, I can read digitally and have one light tablet instead of multiple heavy textbooks.
• As a working mom with small kids, these kindle kids’ tablets were a lifesaver.
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    • My kids had a durable tablet to mimic mommy and her work.  My boys loved to sit and work on my old laptops while I was working so they could work too.  It was like bringing your kids to work every day. But they needed something more durable, so these tablets were a great way to help them start to use technology safely.
• This keyboard adapter worked great with their kids’ tablets to give them a keyboard.
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    • Now that my boys are older, the keyboard allows them to do homework on their tablets and learn software that is helpful in the real world, like excel and word.  We have started on the basics.
• In remote work, no one likes people snooping.
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    • This is a handy tool to put behind you to ensure your zoom and teams backgrounds work well. Also, this helps keep managers and co-workers from judging your home. With so much in the media about bosses becoming alarmed because you travel and still work, a portable green screen helps reduce issues and keeps your business your own.
• I love the new stick-on wallpaper if you prefer a staged background in your home office. I have put links for a few options.
  • I personally love my brick wall design wallpaper. It looks so good. It gives the chic New York loft look out in the California Central Valley.

• I have learned that picking a green one is good if you use a filter on YouTube or backgrounds on Zoom or Teams. 
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• Speaking of keeping your business your own…
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    • This mouse jiggler helps address the flaw in most brassware that tracks if you are working by how many times your mouse moves to show if you are at your computer.  I think there needs to be a qualitative method to teach leaders about productivity and that breaks are productive until these attitudes change. We need to arm ourselves.
• This brings us to a phone recording logger.
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    • This phone logger protects against toxic bosses not on board with remote work because they say horrible things and choose to call because they think that’s not documentable. Unfortunately, as employees, we need to protect ourselves.
• I am a walk-and-talk kind of person.
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    • I don’t know about you when people use Teams as a phone. I love to walk and talk.  Even if it is to walk to the kitchen for coffee, get my door dash from the door, or whatever.  So remote headsets with wireless capabilities are lovely. 
• Blue light is horrible
  • https://amzn.to/3WGS6w9
    • I have migraines, and being on the computer with no blue light filter can make me sick.  I get the blokz lenses for my glasses, but for those who don’t like to wear glasses, the blue light monitor filters are a great trick to protect your eyes and migraines.

Hopefully these finds help you make your remote workplace more functional and help you set proper workplace boundaries.  Supporting your physical and mental health in the new year is a key aspect to a happy new year in the remote workplace.

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