Guide

Monitors for home and open plan offices

5.5.2023

Translation: Patrik Stainbrook

When buying a monitor, there are a few points to consider. Below, we’ve listed some of the factors you should pay special attention to when buying a monitor for your home or open-plan office.

A look at our store and filters shows the many aspects that can be considered when buying a monitor. This article focuses on monitors used in home and open-plan offices. Looking for a gaming monitor? I’d advise you take a look at this page instead. While response time, refresh rate and resolution are essential for a gaming monitor, they aren’t very relevant for most office jobs. The majority of smaller monitors today offer Full HD (1920 × 1080 pixels) as a minimum anyway. QHD resolution (2560 × 1440 pixels) is the standard for monitors over 32 inches. Therefore, factors such as brightness and contrast, energy efficiency, ergonomics as well as screen size and number are of more interest than resolution when purchasing office monitors.

Number and size

The number and size factors are closely linked. A typical modern workstation comes with either one slightly larger or two small monitors. Parallel work using different programs as well as an increase in online meetings justify a setup that goes beyond one lone monitor. An open notebook often rounds out the setup, both as a computer and second or third screen. I personally work in the office with two 24-inch monitors as well as an open notebook. I bought a 34-inch widescreen monitor for home use. The combination of two 24- or 27-inch models or a single 34-inch widescreen monitor are also the most frequently requested solutions among our business customers. In order to avoid unnecessary cable clutter as well as a connection bottleneck on the notebook, daisy chain technology is recommended when using multiple monitors. In a daisy chain, hardware components are connected to each other serially. Only the first component is directly connected to the computer system. Further devices are each connected to the one before, forming a chain. We also recommend using a docking station. Among other benefits, this also helps avoid a connection bottleneck on the notebook. My colleague Zeynep wrote more about using docking stations here.

Monitors for home and open plan offices

Number and size

A selection of 24-inch monitors

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A selection of 27-inch monitors

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A selection of 34-inch monitors

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