 Hello everyone, this is Amit Dan of amitdan.com. Today I'll have another episode of TIFFs and Tricks video and I'll talk about how to go back to work after lockdown. If this is your first time or a bid visit, thank you for your support on this channel. I'm always trying new and different ideas. If you're into thinking outside the box, this is the channel to subscribe. If you're looking for more TIFFs and Tricks videos, there will be links in the description box below. So today I'll give you some tips about first time going back to work after the lockdown and you're going to have to take some accessories with you because you know work has changed and this is not going to be the same office or work as the way it used to be. And I'm going to go over some of the items that I felt are necessary to take with you whenever you're going back to work. So the way my own office changed is that now we cannot just go back to work like before. So we have to book via a system which is online and then it assigns you a desk and then you know you can go to that desk and you have to take like you know some items but some of the items are provided and I'm going to just like you know go over whatever you may need to take. The best thing would be to talk to your HR before going back to work and also most likely they're going to tell you what to bring and what not to bring. This is my own experience. I'm going to go over some of the stuff always you should be taking and hopefully this video is going to you know help you going back to work. So the first thing is that you need a work bag. I'm using this bag right here which is an American twister. You can just get any other bags as long as it you know suits your needs. Then what you need to take is a Bluetooth earbuds. This is to connect you know at your office laptop to talk to someone else or pick up phone calls. Also if you'd like you can take a corded you know set. This is just a USB phone which you can connect to your laptop and you'll be able to talk via team or phone. I get my phone calls on my laptop so if you have the same system then you can use this too. So either you can just take something wireless like a Bluetooth earbuds or you can just take a corded earphone or a corded USB phone and then you'd require a wireless keyboard set. I use the Arctic wireless keyboard but you know at our office they don't provide keyboard due to you know COVID situation so you have to get your own keyboard. The problem with the laptop keyboard is that you know it's going to be kind of like you know close to the monitors. You have to kind of bend a little bit to reach the keyboard. That's why I use an additional keyboard and then you would require a mouse pad which I have it right here and for the same like you know COVID situation they stopped providing the mouse pad and also the mouse. So here I have a small wired mouse which I use at work and this is just right here. So this one you know you can have any mouse but either wireless or you know wired so this is just a word a small kind of travel mouse and this is enough for my needs and don't forget to take your laptop. So this is my work laptop. So what happened before we used to have workstation at work and each one had separate workstation but we don't have that anymore. So now we have our own laptop because everyone's working from home and whenever you go to work we just you know connect this laptop to the monitor big monitor at work so that's that's why you know you have to take your laptop unless your work has separate system where you don't need to take your laptop and you still have access to workstation with a computer or laptop but I like you know most of the works now they're just switching to a laptop. Then you may need to take Ethernet cable so this is just to connect your laptop to the internet and you know wired connection if you need but most work provides wireless you know Wi-Fi but I just keep it in case like you know if I need to use it but I never had to use it but this is something you know you need to consider if you would like to connect it to wired internet at work and they don't provide dongle to connect to wire you know Ethernet via Ethernet cable. And then definitely don't forget to take a pen and some index cards or you know scratch papers to take notes and stuff because definitely there's not going to be like you know sticky pads or index cards or notebooks at work so this is something else to take and also I keep a power bank this is just to you know power my charging my phone or my bluetooth device if they have low battery so definitely keep a power bank and then something you may need is the laptop cable or laptop charger although at work I have a dongle which I can just connect to my laptop and just like you know charges my laptop but still I keep one in case like you know something happens to the work one or if it's gone so for you know security I keep one but I'm thinking of not taking this anymore because now I see that my work has a dongle at every you know desk which are actually we call it floating desks because you can just book any desk you want so each you know department has separate section and you can book your own desk within that section so there's these are like you know floating desks and each desk has a dongle so I don't need to take this anymore so I took it initially to charge my laptop and then another handy thing you might want to take is a small dongle I took it for the first couple of times going back to you know connect my laptop to the HDMI port or to USB but I don't need that anymore because I noticed that there's a dongle at every desk now so I just connect it to the dongle and it does the job and another very handy thing you might need is a laptop cable or computer cable so the reason this comes in handy because you know every time you get off your desk and go to washroom or kitchen to make coffee then if you don't have this then you may need to like you know put your laptop close your laptop and put it inside a locker so that's a big headache I don't want to do that so what I do I just use a cable lock to lock my laptop to my desk and that way I don't have to like you know put my laptop inside the locker every time I get off my chair so definitely this this is one of the best items you know you may you want you can take when you are going back to work to lock your laptop and also don't forget to take your entry card so if you definitely going to be needing your entry pass or entry card to enter the office so if you forget this then the whole trip is going to be ruined you cannot enter the building or the office anymore so don't forget to take your pass card or entry card and also I think I mentioned about the pen definitely keep a pen handy with you and it looks like these are all the main accessories you'd require when you go back to work and what happens if you go back to work for the first or second time then just like you know from your experience you can cut some items which you do not need anymore so for example I do not need the Ethernet cable anymore so I don't have to take that this one the dongle I don't need anymore so I don't have to take that and also the laptop charger this one I don't need it anymore because you know the dongle does everything and except these three I'm taking all these three and everything else because that's what I need so based on your experience slowly you can like you know cut down on some stuff that you don't need to take every time with you so basically that's how you prepare yourself to going back to work and then you know you can add some items or cut some items based on your own experience and your own needs that's all for today thank you for watching this video there'll be more videos coming up so see you shortly