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Working From Home? Here's the Best Home Office Equipment

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Working from home might seem like a great idea on paper. You can just roll out of bed and get down to work and you don’t even have to worry about commuting, traffic or even putting on pants. However, working from home also comes with a big drawback of having to build out your workstation all by yourself.

Without any office-provided desk, mouse, keyboard, or Internet, that’s a lot of gear to buy for just the basics. The good news is we know a thing or two about working from home and the best tech to get you through the day. Read on for the best home office equipment you'll need for working from home.

TL;DR – These are the Best Home Office Equipment

Logitech MX Master 3

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A computer mouse will always be infinitely more comfortable to use than a touchpad. The Logitech MX Master 3 wireless mouse features an extremely ergonomic design that makes it easy and painless to use all day.

It also features an electromagnetically driven wheel that automatically switches between gradual, click-scrolling to free-spinning when you flick hard enough so you can just fly through long webpages and documents. You also get a handy side scroll wheel for navigating horizontally and a programmable side button you can set to switch apps or return to your desktop.

Keychron K4

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Easily the next biggest ergonomic upgrade you can give yourself is a desktop keyboard. The Keychron K4 is easily the most full-featured and yet affordable option around. This keyboard supports both wired and wireless connections over Bluetooth.

You’re also able to choose from a variety of Gateron mechanical key switches or optical switches if you want a keyboard that lasts a little longer. One other thing we love about the Keychron K4 is its compact design and key layout, which pushes the number keys right next to the main group of keys for a smaller frame.

Dell UltraSharp U2415


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If you’ve already gone through with getting yourself a keyboard and mouse setup, you might as well go all the way and get a monitor to turn your laptop into more of a desktop setup. The Dell UltraSharp U2415 is an affordable desktop display that gives you a ton of extra screen real estate and it’ll save you from the eyestrain of having to squint at your laptop screen all the time. Best of all the Dell UltraSharp U2415 is a great looking screen with minimal bezels, good brightness, and factory-calibrated colors.

Furinno K6

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Now that you’ve got your eyes on a good looking monitor, you should also raise up your laptop to eye level so you can continue to use it as a second monitor. The Furinno K6 does an amazing job of this, lifting up your laptop to a maximum height of 22-inches, which should be more than tall enough to reach most people’s eye line. This laptop stand is also flexible enough to go anywhere, so it’s perfect for those who like to work from bed or a couch too.

Gunnar Optiks Enigma

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No matter what staring at screens all day is just not good for you, but getting a pair of Gunnar Optiks is one thing you can do to save your eyes. These computer glasses are designed to reduce the amount of constant bright blue light and glare that can harm your vision. What’s more, these glasses also help reduce any screen flicker you might have noticed otherwise while adding a slight bit of magnification to your vision.

Mount-It! Turcom AirLight

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A good desk lamp like the Mount-It! Turcom AirLight is one other great way of helping reduce eye strain while working. It’s always good to have a strong, steady light while you're working. It’s particularly handy on dreary days and when workdays stretch long into the night. One other added benefit you get from the Mount-It! Turcom AirLight is it also has a bladeless fan built-in, so keep cool while you work.

Logitech C920S HD Pro Webcam

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Working from means taking a lot of video calls, so you should upgrade from your basic potato-quality laptop web camera to a dedicated one like the Logitech C920S. This webcam records at a much higher quality 1080p resolution and 30 fps with better autofocus and low-light image quality than a dinky laptop web camera.

Bose Noise Cancelling Headphones 700

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Office noise can be annoying but sounds you might hear at home like your radiator going off all the time or your upstairs neighbor walking around in what sounds like high heels at all hours of the day can be downright infuriating. The best way to drown out the world, of course, is a pair of noise-canceling headphones like the Bose Noise Cancelling Headphones 700. They’re wireless and offer a customizable level of noise cancellation.

WD My Passport Wireless Pro 1TB

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Hard drives are great for moving your files from device to device, but what if you never had to plug it in and could have it connected to multiple devices at once? That’s exactly what the WD 1TB My Passport Wireless Pro is designed to do. With it, you can seamlessly send files between your laptop, desktop PC, smartphone and tablet.

Sure Google Cloud and Dropbox essentially do the same thing with cloud storage, but the Passport Wireless Pro also has the advantage of being able to produce its own ad hoc network, which comes in handy when there’s a network outage and or you’re in the middle of traveling. Of course, you can also use it as a plain old hard drive for the fastest data transfer speeds and it even doubles as a portable battery pack.

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Kevin Lee is IGN's Hardware and Roundups Editor. Follow him on Twitter @baggingspam

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