Upgrade your home office with these essentials that’ll help make your workday more productive

Updated Jan 27, 2025 1:29 am ET


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Working from home has its pros and cons. Sure, you can roll out of bed and start working immediately, but it also means you’re staring at a screen all day without any other IRL human interaction. No matter how long you’ve been working from home, it’s always a good idea to invest in your workspace. This can help you focus and be more productive during the day.

Adding a few key products, such as an adjustable standing desk or even a cord organizer, can help keep your space clean so you can focus on what actually needs to get done. Here are some products that’ll make your home office a place you actually want to be.

  1. Since you’re sitting at your desk for 8+ hours a day, you should invest in an ergonomic office chair. This one is adjustable, with a high back, headrest and flip-up arms, and it’s appropriate for people up to 6’2”.

>> Buy the Gabrylly Ergonomic Office Chair for $269.50 from Amazon

  1. If you want to get even more comfortable, try a crisscross chair designed with a U-shaped seat that relieves pressure on your waist and supports your hips as you sit.

>> Buy the Dumos Criss Cross Chair for $59.88 from Amazon

  1. Switch up how you work during the day with an electric L-shaped standing desk. It’s large enough to fit dual monitors, adjusts from 29.2 inches to 48.4 inches and can support up to 176 pounds.

>> Buy the Vivo Electric L-Shaped Standing Desk for $279.99 from Amazon

  1. Add a layer of protection to your desk with this large desk mat that also acts as a mouse pad. Plus, it’s waterproof and easy to clean if you accidentally spill your coffee because, you know, Monday morning.

>> Buy the K Knodel Large Desk Mat for $12.99 from Amazon

  1. Keep your cords close by and ready for use with this cord clip that sticks to the side of the desk. The two-pack has options for either three or five slots and will ensure you can always charge your phone when it dips below 50%.

>> Buy the Cable Clips Holder for $6.55 from Amazon

  1. Stay on top of your to-do list with this dry erase board keyboard stand. Not only will it help you reduce the amount of paper you use, but the top flips up to reveal sneaky storage for the collection of markers and pens you have.

>> Buy the Small Glass Desktop Whiteboard for $28.99 from Amazon

  1. Instead of heating the whole house (and wasting your hard-earned money), grab this Amazon Basics space heater to keep you toasty while you work. It has three fan settings and only weighs 3 pounds.

>> Buy the Amazon Basics space heater for $22.99 from Amazon

  1. If you’ve got dual monitors to stay on top of your work, you need this adjustable stand raiser that has a place for both monitors and space underneath to keep everything else neat and organized.

>> Buy the Bontec Dual Monitor stand riser for $29.99 from Amazon

  1. Keep your desk free of clutter with this two-drawer organizer. It has space for all your pens and miscellaneous office supplies that usually scatter your desk (and leave your brain feeling the same).

>> Buy the Marbrasse Pen Organizer for $9.99 from Amazon

  1. Add these sticky note holders to the sides of your monitor and you’ll look so prepared and on top of things during your meetings that you’ll impress your boss. The clear memo boards can also be used in other places around your office.

>> Buy the MDOZQ Monitor Memo Board for $6.98 from Amazon

Abby Kass

Abby Kass

Author McClatchy Commerce

Abby Kass is a Commerce Content Editor at McClatchy covering kids/babies, pets, beauty, and more. With more than seven years experience writing and editing shopping content, Abby has a strong understanding of how important commerce content really is and its important value to readers. She loves browsing online and finding innovative, unique, and just down-right cool products. Before McClatchy, Abby started her career working for Parents Magazine where she fell in love with writing about products. She then spent six years at BuzzFeed falling deeper into the shopping world writing more than 1,500 product roundups and reviews. She sees shopping as a sport and has worked hard at mastering it in order to help make people’s lives easier as they find cool and useful products.

Kayleigh Drake

Kayleigh Drake

Editor McClatchy Commerce

Kayleigh Drake is a Commerce Content Editor at McClatchy. She’s based in Birmingham, Alabama, and holds a bachelor’s degree in communications from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Kayleigh has written and edited content for numerous publications, with a particular focus on the food, kitchen, home and lifestyle verticals. When she’s not fulfilling her editorial duties, she loves record shopping, playing guitar, baking and buying entirely too many plants.