What costs?
Even people who work from an office still usually have a home study or office for doing their bills or whatever. Do you mean electricity costs to run your laptop? What does that add up to?
Even people who work from an office still usually have a home study or office for doing their bills or whatever. Do you mean electricity costs to run your laptop? What does that add up to?
Many, many people will come out of this with their backs ruined from being hunched over a laptop with no external screen for 8 hours a day.
* Heating and cooling
* Buying furniture and furnishings that are missing, or to replace worn out or unsuitable for full time work e.g. lights, computer chairs, headphones, monitors
* General office consumables, e.g. coffee, milk, pens, paper
The Australian Tax Office reckons (for tax purposes) this costs around 80 cents (AUD) per hour, or AU$1,500 per year.
Also, most people don't have a separate study or spare room they can use as a home office [1].
[1] https://news.stanford.edu/2020/06/29/snapshot-new-working-ho...
Having written this, I see this could be an impetus to get better at taking notes with software. But some remote jobs and people really benefit from keeping physical things close by.