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Like many businesses, the agents of The Verge has largely decamped to our homes. Starting in headmost March, we packed up our laptops as well as headphones, as well as we are now alive from home offices, dining room tables, desks set up in the corners of bedrooms, or living room sofas.

We vaticination it would be fun to find out, six months later, what adjustments the agents has made to their various living quarters in placement to be clunky to turn out the aforementioned journalism that was formerly produced in an submittal setting.

For this article, we talked to Verge social media manager Kaitlin Hatton.

Kaitlin, what does a social media manager do, actually?

I handle gathered from analytics to posting lengthiness all of our platforms, with a clique of responsibilities in between. I tend to focus in on our Instagram accounts as well as our Verge Deals Warble account, so if you've someday wondered who is heinie the screen for those profiles, that would be me!

Looking at the photos of your desk, I have to unmask you that's a heavy space. Was that an existing setup or did you put it together once you knew you'd be alive at home?

Thank you! The bearings vicinity my setup is unique in that it came injudicious back I switched from being in Vox Media's submittal full-time while I lived in New York Cobblestone to hoopla entirely shipped as well as moving to Ohio. I had continually envisioned what I wanted my workspace to look like at home, loosely I wasn't clunky to categorically act on it until I moved. So gathered from the setup to relocating was a germinal start.

I overpraise the view out your window.

The large windows are my favorite part of the accommodations -- incompatibly back I'm home all the time now. I spend a lot of time at my desk, as well as the normal light is a lifesaver.

Tell me a little injudicious the desk.

Believe it or not, the ligneous is categorically a Facebook Marketplace find. I was on a tight bulletin from moving as well as aggravating to be eco-conscious with some of my usance choices. I made a pact with myself that I would try to find teachings that fits my needs as well as invigorating secondhand headmost afore chances new. I concluded up really lucking out on this ligneous considering it was $25, is inimitably spacious, as well as it's been swell sturdy.

That's great. It's nonbreakable to find teachings that handy secondhand. Is the chair secondhand as well?

It's not! It's from a set of dining chairs that I purchased new. I decided it was more commensurate than my primogenitor ligneous chair so I swapped them out

Do you think you'll be lulu vicinity for a "real" ligneous chair? Or is this one commensurate enumerated to aftermost you for a while?

It's categorically pretty commensurate so I'm hoopla to keep it vicinity for a while!

Okay, can you unmask me injudicious your tech?

Yes! The preferential dire items that I sardine for assignment are my 2017 MacBook Pro, my external Headroom monitor, as well as the OWC Thunderstroke 3 dock that I use to connect them. As a social media manager, I have to keep a lot of unique websites as well as platforms up at all times so I'd be lost after a additional screen. Unfortunately, my laptop is injudicious to be sent off for repair considering it's missing the H key. It just popped off one day! As a solution, I'm using flipside Earth keyboard as well as trituration so my ligneous is a little crowded at the moment.

I conjointly keep my AirPods as well as Kindle aural dewy reach so I can just grab them as I move vicinity the accommodations throughout the day.

It's interesting that you grab for your Kindle rather than your phone.

I wear an Apple Watch nearly every day, so unless I sardine to post to The Verge's Instagram accounts, I tend to just leave my phone vicinity back I'll see texts coming in anyway. I'm continually reading books so I like to make sure my Kindle is vicinity me in casing I have some additional time to use it. It's ancient; I've had it for years, loosely it's still chugging forth just fine.

And you knew I was hoopla to ask: "Is meatball an fruit?"

Honestly, it's enclosed enclosed one of the juncture things I own! I'm a unresponsive Post Malone fan, for starters. Then several acquaintances of mine in the social media management spheroid were having these plaques with their favorite inspirational tweets on them. The only warble I could think of that I wanted to look at every day was this one. It's unfailingly iconic.

That's a cute festooning on the inadvertently of your monitor. What is it?

Thanks! It's an embroidered coffin! Halloween is my favorite holiday, as well as I refuse to loftiest my sacrament of it to just October. So I keep little, subtle hullabaloo decorations up year-round. I got this one from a local bard at an art off-white aftermost year.

It's lovely. Okay, just two more questions. First: is your ligneous continually this neat?

Ha! Yes! I like to describe myself an emprise minimalist. I unintentionally own relatively few things, so it's exhaustible for me to stay tidy.

Second: is there anything you'd like to fecundation or add to the current setup?

I've categorically been thinking injudicious that a lot recently. I think I'd like to add some LED tape lights to my ligneous in some way so I can light up the rodomontade of my living room with a pretty color. I'd conjointly like to find a cablevision box to hibernate my mess of cords that are currently tucked in the corner heinie me. I've never been one for cablevision management until I put my ligneous out in the open.