Home Office & Tech Setup Planner

Home Office & Tech Setup Planner — Plan a workspace that actually works: needs assessment, room layout, ergonomics, lighting and camera, sound, cables, power and network — plus a kit inventory workbook that adds up what you still need to buy.

A workspace either helps you every day or quietly costs you something, and the difference is mostly position rather than money. This planner works in the order that actually matters. It starts with a needs assessment, because a desk for two hours of admin and a desk for eight hours of video calls are not the same desk, and then puts the room on paper: sketch frames for the layout as it is and the layout you are proposing, and a two-page list of everything worth measuring first — including seated elbow height and seated eye height, the two numbers a desk and a screen should be set against and the two almost nobody measures. From there it works through the parts people get wrong most often: desk and chair height set in the right order, screen position, a fifteen-line ergonomics checklist that is honest that persistent pain is a conversation with a doctor rather than something a cushion fixes, working light and call lighting, camera height and framing, sound and the echo that soft furnishings fix better than equipment, a full cable-management pass, power and surge protection, and wifi placement. Then the kit: what you already own, what you actually need, and a page of improvements that cost nothing at all — several of which will do more than the first item on your shopping list. There are sections for small spaces, for shared and packed-away setups on a kitchen table or in a bedroom, and for the boundaries and distractions that no amount of equipment solves, plus a daily-to-annual maintenance routine and a setup log. The workbook holds two of the pages as live sheets: a Kit Inventory that totals what is still to buy, and a Room Measurements sheet ready for a tape measure. No brand, model or retailer is named anywhere, and no credential is ever recorded.

What's inside

• NEEDS ASSESSMENT: ten questions about what actually happens in the room, and what each answer changes about the setup
• LAYOUT: two large sketch frames for the room as it is and the layout you are proposing, plus the positioning rules that are free — window side-on, door behind you, power runs and clearance
• MEASURE FIRST: 18 measurements to take before buying a desk, a chair or a shelf, across two pages — including the seated elbow and eye heights that decide everything else
• DESK AND CHAIR: the order to set the height in, so a cheap chair set up correctly beats an expensive one set up badly
• SCREENS AND ERGONOMICS: screen position, and a 15-line ergonomics checklist — with a plain statement that persistent pain is a doctor’s conversation, not a checklist’s
• LIGHTING: working light and a separate page for call lighting and camera height, framing and background
• SOUND: why rooms echo, what actually fixes it, and the microphone rule that beats buying equipment
• CABLES, POWER AND NETWORK: a ten-step cable pass, a power and surge page that points at local electrical rules, and wifi placement including the guest-network habit
• STORAGE AND SHELVING, plus kit-I-have and kit-I-need working pages
• FREE IMPROVEMENTS: 14 changes that cost nothing, across two pages, to do before spending anything
• SMALL AND SHARED SPACES: working from a bedroom or a kitchen table, and a packing-away routine that takes one trip
• BOUNDARIES: start and end rituals, door signals, notifications and the household agreement
• MAINTENANCE: a daily-to-annual routine table and a setup log with a did-it-help column
• XLSX WORKBOOK: a Read Me, a Kit Inventory that counts what is still to buy and totals estimated, spent, on order and still to spend, and a Room Measurements sheet pre-listed with all 18 measurements

How it works

The PDF guide walks you through step by step, with ready-to-use wording you can adapt. The XLSX tracker comes pre-filled with example data — fill the gold cells and every total and status updates automatically.

Specifications

• Format: PDF guide + XLSX (live formulas) + read-me
• Works in: Word, Google Docs, LibreOffice, Excel, Google Sheets
• License: full rights — use, edit, rebrand & resell
• Updates: free for life

Full rights

Sold with full rights: use it personally or with clients, edit anything, and even rebrand and resell it — keep 100% of the income, no attribution required. Customise before reselling (marketplaces reject identical duplicates).

Please note

Productivity and digital-organisation templates for personal and business use. Example entries are illustrations to adapt to your own setup. Never record passwords, PINs, one-time codes or full card numbers in these files — keep secrets in a dedicated password manager. Any security checklist here is general good practice, not a security audit or professional IT advice. Digital download — delivered instantly, so all sales are final; future updates are free.