Short video clip of Katie McManus musing about buying a dedicated "work bed" for working from home. She describes enjoying working from her sleep bed for comfort and convenience but notes sleep-science advice that mixing work and sleep spaces can harm sleep by associating the bed with wakeful activity; she considers getting a secondary bed used only for work.
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I've decided something big, guys, and that is that I want to invest in a work bed, because I love working from bed. I work from home. What is cozier than curling up in your bed with your covers and, like, your bottle of water? And you have, like, all this space. I'm in bed right now. You have all this space to put, like, all of your papers and books and whatever you need for inspiration just everywhere, and you can see it all. And then if you have, like, one of those little, like, lap desks that's easy for your computer, and then you can just rearrange yourself to, like, be as comfortable as you want. But the sleep scientists say that that's bad because apparently your brain starts associating places with activities. And if you're using your sleep bed for work, then your brain, when you're trying to go to sleep, is like, we should work. And then it starts thinking about all the work, and that actually is a thing. So I need to just, like, get a secondary bed that I don't sleep in, but I work in. Yeah, I think. I think I'm gonna do this.