Desk

Searches for office Christmas decorations jump every November. If you spend most of your day at a desk, a little decoration there does more for your mood than another thing at home you see for an hour each evening. The trick at work is to stay small, tidy and easy to take down. Check first Before buying anything, find out: Whether your office allows plug-in lights. Many don’t, because of fire rules. Battery lights are almost always fine. Whether you can attach things to walls or cubicle panels. Whether there are rules about candles, real greenery or scents. Assume no. A small tree A 2 ft tabletop tree (on Amazon) fits on most desks without getting in the way. Pre-lit and battery powered is the easiest. If your desk is tiny, a set of bottle-brush trees (on Amazon) grouped in one corner gives the same feeling in less space. ...

A desk has to stay usable in December. Whatever you put on it should either sit somewhere you don’t work, like the top of the monitor or the shelf above, or take up less room than your coffee mug. Off the desk surface A slim garland along the top of the monitor. About 2 feet long and no more than 2 inches thick; a fat garland looks like the monitor is wearing a hat. Hold it with two small clips on the back edge of the monitor, not on the screen. You see it every time you look up, and so do people on your video calls. ...