Laptop holding techniques in the office - Quartz at Work:
They walk among us in just about every office: People with their laptops open, bound for conference rooms and common areas, many keeping their devices ajar to avoid losing those precious few seconds of computer wake-up time.
While we cloak our phones in shock-proof plastic and their screens with tempered-glass shields, laptops rarely get similar protection. Considering these pieces of hardware are some of the most expensive items we work with, it's a little shocking to see how cavalier we can be toward our one essential work device.
But since when has safety outweighed looking cool?
Over the past few weeks, we've been observing Quartzians in their natural habitat and have tried to make sense of their odd office rituals in porting their laptops from one meeting to the next. Here are some of our findings.
This is some silly fun. I know which one I am ("The Clutch") and which I'd like to be ("The Vacationer").