The 17 Best WFH Gifts

Desk a cluttered mess? Dining room table you're using as a desk look like a tsunami victim? The guest bed you occasionally use as your WFH depot - oh Baby Jesus, the guest bed.... Just take a deep breath, and Welaxy.

Welaxy Drawer Organizer Trays are 8-piece sets of recycled PET felt bins that look as pleasing to the eye empty as they will be filled neat and orderly with your chaos of office supplies, random housewares, and hobby bits. The trays have a modern design and come in a handful of color combinations. Each set includes multiple round and rectangular shapes, all with an inviting fuzzy texture. Arrange them on your desktop in patterns pleasing to you, or Tetris the organizer trays into a drawer for tidy storage that remains out of sight.

Fellowes' new Elea suspended desk chair aims to get your workday in full swing - natural, supported, ergonomic swing - whether you're at the office or scooted up to the dining table in your makeshift WFH setup.

Like the STOIC Active Standing Mat, the Elea Chair goes for the design hat trick of physiological benefit, aesthetic interest, and fun & funky to use. The Elea uses Fellowes' patent-pending Omni-Kinetic Suspension Technology in a free-rocking seat that adapts to and follows along with your body's natural movements. This, according to Fellowes, both makes the chair more comfortable to sit in, and allows you to have a more active workday, even while in the butt-to-seat position.

The Livit Studypod, a prefab office for your backyard, is one solution emerging from the explosion in popularity (and, yeah, necessity) of working from home, plus the all-new phenomenon of going to school from home. Studypods don't come cheap, but they're a lot less expensive than some of their peers, such as the Pod Space prefab office cabins, and depending on how long the WFH and study-from-home trends continue, they could end up paying from themselves over time.

The Gaiam Balance Disc is mostly a wobble cushion for your desk chair, but also partly an accessory for core strength and balance exercises out of your chair. It's a great mate for anyone with visions of improving their posture, plus eases those with more lofty fitness goals into the process more gently than a Peloton bike.

The Levit8 is a portable standing desk that carries flat like folder, and then goes all geometric screensaver dance to twist out into an elevated work surface when you want to stand on two feet rather than sit on 2 cheeks to get shit done.

Levit8 flat-folding standing desks are available in 4 different heights, all with 9" x 9" square top surfaces. The small is 9" tall, medium 11.9", larger 14", and X-large 16.2". The origami desks are made of 100% waterproof nylon, and are strong enough to support items up to 20 times their own 2-ish-pound weight.

The Soul Seat is for those of you who long to sit cross-legged at your desk. Or in a half-kneeling position. Or with one leg tucked underneath you. Or like you're using a Squatty Potty at your desk. In other words, the Soul Seat is for all 11 of you out there.

Joking aside, Soul Seat creator Pack Matthews developed the chair as an alternative for people who want to stay active and shift between different sitting positions while they work. The Soul Seat platform and perch combo facilitates this without sacrificing body alignment and ergonomics. Crafted with input from a physical therapist, yoga instructors, fine woodworkers, and industrial engineers, the Soul Seat looks a little like an Alexia Meditation Seat, with more options for adjustment. Both the platform and perch raise and lower independently.

Whether you're nursing an injury, a hangover, or just a whole bunch of lazy bones, an overbed computing cart will help you complete your professional duties reclined comfortably on your mattress just as you would stuffed into your el cheapo IKEA chair.

Are you STOIC enough to work standing on a plank of nails? Cook as your feet and ankles stay active atop a Redwoods forest bed? Home school while balancing on and fidgeting through Flathead River rocks? monkii's STOIC Active Standing Mat challenges you to get stronger, healthier, more engaged through all of the above with the company's intriguing new take on incorporating movement into your day.

Open your laptops and open your laps to the Couchmaster CYBOT, an ergonomic lap desk for gamers, work-from-homers, social media socialites, online shoppers, and internet trolls alike. Designed specifically for high-output notebooks, the Couchmaster CYBOT doesn't just provide an anatomically-friendly design for use on a couch or in a chair, but it also brings a special ventilation grille to the table - literally. The top surface of the lap desk has a large circular grill cut out to encourage optimal cooling of gaming notebooks measuring up to 17".

The pinnacle of functionality and comfort and it looks like a scorpion? Starting at nearly $6,000, MWE Labs' Emperor line of workstations may require a CEO-sized wallet for purchase, but given that owning one may actually make me want to work 120-hour weeks from home...or at least 20-hour weeks...which would still be 4 times more than the 5-hour weeks I currently log...I'd probably recoup my costs within...I don't know, someone who's good at math story problems figure out the specifics. It probably wouldn't be very long and the initial investment would be well worth it is my point.

Because once I had the hybrid chair paid for, I would obviously redirect my efforts to contribute to the rat race to more important endeavors, such as using the Emperor as an aid and prop in becoming the next WFH Dr. Claw.