Is it a good idea to put your desk facing a window?

I find putting your desk facing a window a bad idea

Apart from the seemingly insignificant fact, that it can be extremely distracting, placing a desk to face the sun burns your retina and you can go blind in the long-term

Having the window behind you is also a bad idea because it can reflect the light off of your monitor and make the image more โ€œdirtyโ€ which is bad for the eyes too

Because of that, the best decision would be to have the screen placed left or right of you

If you want to go a step further you can reduce the Blue Light that your monitor emits and remove the PWM flicker so that you can have a better sleep and less eye strain

There are programs that can do this for you, probably the best one is

Download Iris

 

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