Checklists

Home Office
Setup Checklists

Free, printable checklists for setting up a home office, getting your ergonomics right, looking sharp on every video call, taming desk cables, and starting a new remote job. Each list is built for one specific job — no overlap, no fluff. Run through it once with the page open on your phone, tick items off as you go, and you finish with a setup that holds up for years.

The lists below are ordered from “start here” (home office setup) to specific single-purpose lists (video call, cable management). If this is your first time building a home office, start with the home office setup checklist; everything else assumes the basics are already done.

Every list here is a checklist on purpose, not an article with checkboxes bolted on — each item is a single, unambiguous action you either did or didn't do, phrased so you don't have to interpret it. That's deliberately different from the gear-guide pages, which explain trade-offs and help you pick a product. Checklists assume you've already decided what to buy and just need to confirm nothing got missed on setup day.

Every checklist here prints cleanly from the browser, and the home office setup checklist has a dedicated downloadable PDF for keeping alongside gear as it arrives. Printing and physically checking items off catches more misses than scrolling a page does. The home office and ergonomic setup checklists are the two most reused; readers tell us they come back to the ergonomic one every few months as a posture reset, not just on day one.

The full pillar guide that ties every checklist together is our complete remote work setup guide — read it first if you want the reasoning behind each item, then come back here for the fast, no-explanation version to run through on setup day itself.