IndianaShep

Director of Sales and Marketing

What does your desk face?

I am about to redo my office setup. I'm lucky that I have a room all to myself in my house. I have a chair with ottoman, couch, coffee table, water cooler, and desk. it's posh af.

That said I need to move things up because adhd.

I am thinking of having my desk open to like the back of the couch or something. idk. I have always had my desk face a wall, but I kind of like the idea of being like a robber baron of the 19th century and just owning the room with my desk in the middle.

video conference sight lines, lighting, acoustics will be dealt with in time. But for now I'm curious, do we all just stare at pixels and a wall or what?

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SADNESSLieutenant

Politicker

Officer of ♥️

Facing a window is my goal. Thats the japanese feng shui way and I fuck with it

IndianaShep

Politicker

Director of Sales and Marketing

That’s what I’m thinking!

SADNESSLieutenant

Politicker

Officer of ♥️

opens up the energy and potential of the world to you.

aSaaSinator

Good Citizen

Sales Director

My windows are at a 45 degree angle to me on both sides. It's nice not having them right in front of me. I get better light, can still see outside, but I'm not as distracted because it's not right in my direct line of sight.

SADNESSLieutenant

Politicker

Officer of ♥️

thats tight too

Sunbunny31

Politicker

Sr Sales Executive 🐰

My actual desk is a corner desk BUT with a window on my left and on my right, a huge wall to wall window on my deck.

However, I gave that room up during pandemic and migrated upstairs and now face a room - I have French doors behind me and I command the room and can see our windows at the front of the house to watch passers by.

I’m closer to the kitchen and coffee now. :)

IndianaShep

Politicker

Director of Sales and Marketing

Being closer to the kitchen would be so dangerous for me…

Sunbunny31

Politicker

Sr Sales Executive 🐰

For me it’s just the coffee. :)

CuriousFox

WR Officer

🦊

I pick up my stuff and move to different areas of my house bc ADHD.

IndianaShep

Politicker

Director of Sales and Marketing

See how many seating options are in my office alone? I see you @CuriousFox

Sunbunny31

Politicker

Sr Sales Executive 🐰

Change up the scenery every time you feel like it.

braintank

Politicker

Enterprise Account Executive

Desk in middle, facing door, robber baron style

Sunbunny31

Politicker

Sr Sales Executive 🐰

Ready for action!

SaaSam

Politicker

Account Executive

Mine faces the door for the same reason I have to face the door whenever I sit down at a restaurant.

Fenderbaum

Politicker

Retired Choirboy🪕

Yeah, I like to know who's approaching or who just came in the restaurant with an AK47.

ThatNewAE

Big Shot

Account Executive - Mid enterprise

My desk faces my partners' desk.
Somebody needs to write a post on 'how to still be polite to each other after seeing each other 24*7'. Blame remote jobs in this case, haha! :p

IndianaShep

Politicker

Director of Sales and Marketing

My wife and I shared an office for like six months. She said I talk to people too much and I should focus on real work. Lol.

ThatNewAE

Big Shot

Account Executive - Mid enterprise

Hahaha ! I'm one call away from hearing the same from my partner.

Epad

Executive

Snr Business Development Executive

I feel this! 😂

tightlines

Politicker

Account Executive

Faces the window and some mountains (that was the main goal)

Sunbunny31

Politicker

Sr Sales Executive 🐰

Very nice!

SoccerandSales

Big Shot

Account Executive

Mine faces the window out to backyard and beyond, I can't do wall-facing anymore

Pachacuti

Politicker

They call me Daddy, Sales Daddy

I face a set of curtained french doors

Kosta_Konfucius

Politicker

Sales Rep

Very Chic

coletrain

Politicker

Account Executive

Directly facing sales training, to be right is a window 15 stories up overlooking a small park.

Changing next week due to team reorg so bleh

jefe

Arsonist

🍁

I love the idea of being in the middle of the room, but the room I'm in isn't quite big enough, so wall it is..

Ryscott0317

Politicker

Cloud Specialist

A wall now that I work from home

aSaaSinator

Good Citizen

Sales Director

My desk faces a wall with windows on either side. I've got a couch behind me that I keep pristine and then I have a 75 inch flatscreen on the back wall. This works for video conferences in that my room actually looks like a Zoom background, but I can also choose to turn the TV on and have stock tickers or cast a YouTube video of one of my products.

Epad

Executive

Snr Business Development Executive

I'm on a small desk, facing a wall, but have a sliding glass door looking out to my street on my right, my kitchen counter on my left, and my living room behind me, all open plan.

It's a ground floor basement suite.

Reminds me I constantly need commission 😂😂😂

Saleszilla

Opinionated

Sales Manager

My desk faces a window to get that natural light in!

If you want some advice from a professional lighting designer here is a good post. https://languageoflight.blog/2022/07/20/1thing-plug-in-home-office/

TennisandSales

Politicker

Head Of Sales

im lucky enough to have an office with windows, so my desk faces the window which looks out onto the front yard.

ChumpChange

Politicker

Channel Manager

Large green wall... window is to my left.

IndianaShep

Politicker

Director of Sales and Marketing

Needs a clean, but here I am.

aSaaSinator

Good Citizen

Sales Director

This is what people see in my Zoom calls:

IndianaShep

Politicker

Director of Sales and Marketing

I need to clean up my background now

TheOverTaker

Politicker

Senior Account Executive

A CVS Pharmacy sign that is 8 floors up. I also sometimes see youths on that roof who are smokin what appear to be jazz cigarettes

BourbonKing

Valued Contributor

VP of Sales

My home office doubles as a speakeasy. I'm surrounded on all four sides of my desk by a rather extensive and valuable bourbon collection.

WhoDey

Opinionated

VP of Sales

If possible, face a window. I turned mine to face a window and it's made a huge difference.

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IndianaShep

What does your desk face?

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