When the first lockdown hit the U.K. in 2020, Matt Alexander, an associate director at an IT development company, turned a spare room in his Essex, England, home into an office. The centerpiece was a three-monitor setup.
The multiple screens were meant to make it easier for Alexander, now 42, to address work emails, juggle spreadsheets, and keep track of developments his team made to software. “I made sure I made something quite nice,” he says. “I had them set up so you couldn’t see the gaps between them.”
