Work from multiple locations in the office

[Dujith]

So in december we are changing to a bigger building (yay!), and we are gonna have around 6 work spots.

Now in the old office there were fixed places so 1 computer for each one.

But in the new building we want to be able to be flexible and switch between spots. Like a standing table if you want to work that way.

 

Atm we have 4 computers each a i7 7700, 2 of those are running quadro's for some lite Autocad stuff. (Buildings stuff)

Most work will be MS Office, and calculating software for our jobs. But will also run a version of Autocad lite (Stabicad) for those installation drawings.

 

Nothing special tho that would require a really powerful workstation.

 

So what direction should i look into? remote desktop to the PC's we already have? or is there a better way

[jaslion]

A laptop would be the best solution here by faaaar.

[Dujith]

@jaslion

Moving will be expensive enough without buying 6 good laptops, plus some kind of dock for the 2/3 screens everyone has now.

We already have 4 decent computers, that would a waste tbh.

[Dujith]

2 minutes ago, Abyssal Radon said:

Having local access to hardware is a better solution, thus either see if your company would buy you a laptop/desktop or see if they’ll let you borrow one of those desktops for working from home. I was in a similar predicament, but my company set us home with workstation laptops to work from home with. However, one annoying thing is that we’re required to sign into a VPN to access the company’s file system for storing/creating files. This is mostly for security reasons. 

This will be in the same building, no working from home for us.

Plus storage is already handled by onedrive

[Kilrah]

Then put those 4 desktops on 4 of the seats, and get more for the others so that there's one computer on each and set things up so anyone can work from any of them. 

[Dujith]

1 minute ago, Kilrah said:

Then put those 4 desktops on 4 of the seats, and get more for the others so that there's one computer on each and set things up so anyone can work from any of them. 

We did that in W7 days. But profiles became to large and it seems W10 does not like this feature.

 

 

[Falcon1986]

1 hour ago, Dujith said:

We did that in W7 days. But profiles became to large and it seems W10 does not like this feature.

Try testing a remote desktop solution (Teamviewer?) on one of your more powerful laptops to see if the WiFi and computer hardware can keep up with real world tasks in your office.

 

When I first saw your post, CoWs (computers on wheels) came to mind. We use them in hospitals and the ICU. Then again, they're not powerful enough to run the kinds of tasks you need, but I'm sure you can modify them as you want.