Wrike-Up Wednesday: Your Desk Must-Haves! 🖥️🌱
Happy Wednesday, Wrikers! 💚
This week, let’s recognize and celebrate the little things that help us get through the workday—our desk essentials! Whether it’s something practical, quirky, or sentimental, we all have that one item on our desk that makes a difference.
What to do:
What’s one essential, unusual, or favorite item on your desk that makes your workday better? Share a photo or description and tell us why it’s special!
I’ll start:
My work-from-home desk favorite is a small money plant I got as a gift. It’s the only plant I’ve managed to keep thriving—probably because all it really needs is a bit of water every now and then. I have this theory that as long as my money plant is happy, my luck with money will be too, so it always gets a prime spot and a little extra attention on my desk! 😅
Now it’s your turn! What’s your favorite desk companion? Drop your photos or stories below 👇
Basudha Sakshyarika Community Team at Wrike Wrike Product Manager Станьте экспертом в Wrike с Wrike Discover
Basudha Sakshyarika Wrike Team member Станьте экспертом в Wrike с Wrike Discover
A keep cup, for my coffee is all I need :-)
Mine is a post-it-note with the words "This was identified early on as a likely outcome"
Photo of my fianceé and coffee. Both is a non negoabile.
In the winter, I like to burn a smelly candle (which unfortunately has left black smoke on my teal walls - oops). And my remote "Co-worker" who needs to be reported to HR for sleeping on the job.
Of course, the usual water bottle, boogie board for quick notes, and family photo. I also have a Star Wars Force N Telling Vader that keeps me company and predicts the future...
Coffee and background music
A rotating cast of fidget toys. I’ve unintentionally trained myself to associate each one with a different work mode. Squiggly one = pay attention to this meeting. Magnetic balls = deep thinking/problem-solving time. The one that makes clicky noises = probably time to get up and take a walk.
My felt pens so I can color-code notes in my planner. That way I can see at a glance which departments I'm supporting and look for trends, like an increase in support for a specific department or my capacity in general.
Ohhh fidget toys, cat stress ball, COFFEE ... and a SCREAMING GOAT! lol
Stress ball, and an array of random books and notepads.
This is a boring and common answer, but headphones are a must-have in the office or at home.
I have a rugged, yet smooth rock that I collected from a river while backpacking in the Sierra Nevada mountains. It reminds me of the outdoors and the spirit of adventure.
photos of my family!
I have a 3D printed fidget cube (the ones that have the never-ending fold) that a friend made for me.
The shoes I painted with my teenage son two years back. Brings good memories of the special time we had together and my favorite poem (https://www.wowzone.com/prints2.htm).
Stress Ball
A bottle of water and my kids photos
My 2-litre water bottle - without hydration I struggle. I try to drink at least one of them a day and sometimes hit two.
A cute coffee mug, water bottle and headphones. Plus my desk tends to be where the team lolly jar lives.
My walking pad below the desk.
There are three essentials for my desk: music, coffee and a footrest!
And we also have a screaming goat, LOL! Shelly Erickson
For me, it's a framed photo of a smudging that one of my work experience students did for me of a trout tile that was at one of my staff's homes.
I also have a small money tree, and two other plants. It took a few tries to find plants that grow happily in the office!
Plants on my table is all i need
Water bottle always, and desk dinos for company.
And if you're wondering what desk dinos are, when I first went remote I had some tiny dinosaurs that I would fiddle with during my work day. They've been migrating back and forth and I have many more dinos now than I did in 2018.
A fan, a space heater, and my water bottle!
On my desk, the most essential is my coffee cup.
A drink or 5! Coffee, water anything but I need to have something on my desk