TIANLICHUJU — PERSONAL VERIFICATION WORKSHEET
A Home with Two Workstations and One Living Room
https://tianlichuju.com/journal/a-home-with-two-workstations-and-one-living-room/

PROPOSED CHECKS — NO MEASURED RESULTS SUPPLIED
Date: __________________  Units: __________________
Room / product reference: __________________

1. Overlapping work schedules
Where: In a shared review of both workers' representative days and actual call times.
Record: List equipment, concentration needs, call overlaps and finishing times for each person; distinguish visual distraction from confidentiality and speech-privacy requirements.
Your observation: ______________________________________________
Interpretation: Two equal desks cannot resolve jobs whose essential conditions conflict in one open room.
Alternative: Agree a credible alternative call location or change the work allocation before buying fitted furniture.

2. Occupied workstation territories
Where: At both desks with users seated, chairs pulled back and household routes active.
Record: Measure useful worktops and remaining movement with units; mark drawers, equipment and the positions where chair movement collides with passing or the other worker.
Your observation: ______________________________________________
Interpretation: Fair provision follows each job's actual needs rather than identical-looking furniture or tucked-away dimensions.
Alternative: Change orientation or desk arrangement and trial suitable seating before sacrificing daily comfort.

3. Independent light and reset
Where: At each user's task light, suitable power and closing storage destination.
Record: Record glare, accessible controls, cable movement and every item left out at the day's end; note devices requiring particular operating or storage conditions.
Your observation: ______________________________________________
Interpretation: The room returns to leisure only when both work setups have a realistic closing sequence.
Alternative: Provide useful personal storage or acknowledge a neat permanent work presence instead of unsafe concealment.

PRACTICAL TRIAL
1. Trial an overlapping working period with real calls and breaks rather than testing the desks on separate quiet days.
2. Check each chair and surface for the actual user and equipment, using appropriate individual guidance where needed.
3. Rehearse the evening reset for both people and revisit the agreement whenever either job's schedule changes.

COMPARE THE SAME SCOPE
- Two independently useful compact permanent desks
- One appropriately shared table with a genuine closing destination
- Custom storage only after call and circulation trials succeed
Cost drivers: Suitable chairs and actual equipment footprints; Independent task light and appropriate power provision; Closing storage and any separate privacy or acoustic work
Choose another route when: Do not promise two private offices within an open living room when both jobs require incompatible simultaneous speech privacy or confidentiality.

EVIDENCE BOUNDARY
The schedule and occupancy trial reveal practical conflicts; they do not establish ergonomic compliance, sound isolation or confidential-working approval.

PHOTO REFERENCE
A small workstation sits below shallow shelves, with plants and objects distributed around the working surface.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Grovemade_2017-04-13_(Unsplash_dS62MvK4CtM).jpg

DECISION CONDITIONS
choose: Choose two permanent stations when both users can arrange their actual equipment, vary posture and move their chairs without borrowing the other's space or blocking the shared route.
alternative: Use a genuinely shared table with identified closing storage when work schedules do not overlap substantially and the changeover is practical.
stop: Reject the open-room arrangement when simultaneous confidential speech or incompatible call schedules require separation that the room cannot provide.

PUBLISHED REFERENCES
CCOHS: Space requirements for office work
https://www.ccohs.ca/oshanswers/ergonomics/office/working_space.html
CCOHS describes workspace needs through tasks, equipment access, chair movement and privacy as well as furniture dimensions. Map those needs separately for each worker, including where a drawer opens or a chair moves into the other person’s area.
Scope: The source supplies office-planning considerations, not a measured capacity for this living room or proof that confidential calls can coexist.
Photographer: Grovemade grovemade
Licence: CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en

Notes: ________________________________________________________