What do you need for your home office? The trendy question we have all been trying to answer. There are a number of electrical accessories such as outlet plug adapters, power strips, zip ties and proper office lighting that you may or may not have that are crucial for your home office setup. You want to ensure your home office setup is similar or better to your regular office for the utmost productivity. In order to help you do so, we have laid out the necessary electrical accessories you will need to ease your stress while setting up your new office.
Setting Up Your Home Office
Plug adapters are a great way to optimize your current outlets for your home office. You can utilize USB outlet plug adapters to convert your standard two outlets into multiple outlets, in addition to adding usb ports to charge your necessary devices. These are surge protected units that feature LED indicator lights to let you know the surge protection is active. Surge protection will protect your devices that are plugged into this unit from damage by high-voltage electrical surges. These are great devices for increasing capacity and organizing your electronics. You can easily increase the number of devices that can plug into your standard 2-plug outlets as well as add USB ports.
Power strips or surge protectors are another option when it comes to outlet space. Power Strips have a variety of power cord lengths allowing you to get to hard-to-reach outlets that may not be close enough to your desk area. These power strips should also be surge protected to ensure the safety of your devices. There are a number of different types of power strips you can purchase depending on your needs.
Outlet power strips with USB ports allow you to save outlet space when charging your tablets, phones and other devices. Wifi enabled power strips are another excellent option for your home office. These are voice control compatible allowing you to sync this strip up to an Amazon Alexa. When walking into your home office, hands full with your morning coffee and breakfast, you can simply ask your smart device to turn on your computer, second monitor, desk light and other necessary electronics so you can ease into your morning by the time you sit down. If you don’t have an Alexa, the smart outlets can be controlled by your mobile device from anywhere, any time. The free app also allows you to set schedules for anything plugged into the smart outlets allowing you to set your necessary electronics to turn on prior to when you will need them or as you’re brewing your morning coffee.
Power strips with digital timers will allow you to utilize multiple settings to turn your devices plugged into this strip on or off automatically according to your desired schedule. You can also mount this power strip utilizing the key holes on the back to better organize your work space or have the strip at a higher level for ease of plugging items into it.
Organizing Your Home Office
Zip ties, also called cable ties, are a secret tool to keep your wires organized and contained. Plugging in your desk lamp, computer, monitors, router, mouse, keyboard, phones and more can create a mess of wires under or around your desk. If all of your wires are setup under your desk you can end up getting tangled within your wires and unplugging important pieces of your setup at crucial times. These are available in 8, 10 and 12 inch sizes to be used depending on the thickness of the wire bundles you are wrapping together. With heavy duty nylon zip ties, you can neatly organize your electrical wires together and tie them back in areas that are hidden and tidy.
LED Lighting In Your Home Office
Upgrading your lighting is one of the easiest, most affordable and highest impact ways to save energy when working from home. LEDs use less energy, cost less to operate, and can last up to 25 times longer than conventional lighting options. By simply switching to LED products, you can reduce your lighting-related energy costs. In your home office, you should first determine what type of lighting you currently have. If you desk or floor lamps, you can simply switch to LED light bulbs. If you have high hats with light bulbs screwed into the ceiling cans, you can either replace those with LED BR bulbs, or snap retrofit downlights into the existing cans to accomplish a more modern recessed lighting look.