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When my employer offered to let me work remote he also offered to let me expense part of a larger apartment precisely because the job requires a large dedicated work space. I made it work in a 1br but it was tight.

Not an accountant, but I think if you use a home office for your employer's convenience, and you use it exclusively for business, you can apply a home office deduction to your taxes. Assuming you itemize your deductions rather than take the standard one.

Again, not an accountant, not your accountant, etc.

"exclusively for business" is the hard part. Unless you've chosen your home to include that dedicated work room. it's going to be difficult to have a room that you're not using for non-business.

It's >50% over the course of a year, so you do have some leeway, but you'd have to avoid, say, gaming in there on weekends, so it's not trivial.

Tax code allows for a specific amount to be deducted ($250?).