A woman has gone viral with her clever hack to avoiding screen glare while working from home in your garden or on your balcony.
Sarah Roberts, an insurance worker from Norwich, took to Facebook page Family Lockdown Tips and Ideas, to reveal the very simple trick to dodging the pesky reflection from the sun on your laptop screen, that makes it impossible to work.
The thrifty employee, who has been continuing her job remotely during the pandemic, shared a picture of her laptop placed in a simple cardboard box – shielding it from heat and reflections.
She wrote: ‘I saw this on LinkedIn – genius idea if you’re working from home!’.
The original post came from Tom Wood, managing director at Evans Denham, who first posted his cardboard box idea a week ago, racking up 50,000 likes and comments on his LinkedIn.
A thrifty UK employee, who has been continuing her job remotely during the pandemic, shared a picture of her laptop placed in a simple cardboard box – shielding it from heat and reflections
Sarah Roberts, an insurance worker from Norwich, took to Facebook page Family Lockdown Tips and Ideas, to reveal the very simple trick to dodging the pesky reflection from the sun on your laptop screen, that makes it impossible to work
She wrote: ‘I saw this on LinkedIn – genius idea if you’re working from home!’
And Sarah’s post also quickly went viral, racking up over 14,000 likes and 3,500 comments as other employees working from home reveled in the simple solution.
One follower wrote: ‘That’s amazing. Fab idea’, while another said: ‘Game changer!’, and one added: So simple! That’s me outside now.’
Another admitted: ‘Wish I’d seen this 11 weeks ago! What a great idea!’.
Elsewhere a woman shared a picture of her computer stashed in her plastic laundry box, and one shared her own contraption, writing: Got mine!’.
The original post came from Tom Wood, managing director at Evans Denham, who first posted his cardboard box idea a week ago, racking up 50,000 likes and comments
Tom joked: ‘The latest in “Work From Home Technology” When you are working from home and want to enjoy the sunshine, yet can’t see your laptop screen because of the sun! Get yourself the latest Technological break through….. The Cardboard Box. I can top up my tan and workout side, without any issues.’
Another warned: ‘Just be careful of hit overheating as there’s not much airflow round the laptop and the fans are likely blocked. Maybe cut holes where the fans are to allow air circulation. But otherwise fab idea’.
This follows research that revealed people will spend about 34 years of their lives staring at computer, phone or television screens according to a new survey.
A poll of 2,000 Britons found they spent more than 4,866 hours per year glued to screens, but most admitted that a lot of this time wasn’t ‘productive’.
And her revelation quickly went viral, racking up over 14,000 likes and 3,500 comments as other employees working from home reveled in the simple solution
Up to three-and-a-half hours a day is spent looking at TV screens, with at least four hours staring at laptops, and two hours and 25 minutes gazing at phones.
Of the people surveyed, 64 per cent admitted they wouldn’t know what to do without their screen time, especially during the lockdown.
The study, sponsored by Vision Direct and conducted by OnePoll.com, found that it takes less than 20 minutes for the average adult to look at a screen after waking up each day.
Elsewhere a woman shared a picture of her computer stashed in her plastic laundry box, and one shared her own contraption, writing: Got mine!’