Making your space feel like home

I wish I could do this, or even leave something at my desk for the next day. But with agile seating I don't even get a cubicle to myself anymore! Awesome! So motivated to be productive!

Agile seating?

Wtf does that even mean? Yall just switch places everyday or something?
- It's "productive" musical chairs designed by assholes.
- It’s how they are dealing with an employees being in the office for a couple days a week instead of every day.
  
  Everyone shares desks so you don’t need to have 2/3 of the office empty every day just so everyone has their own place.
  
  Can’t leave personal items since you can’t claim desks, since there wouldn’t be enough if everyone claimed them.
- Also known as hoteling or hot seating, amongst other terms. Basically all cubicles are identical and you just sit at whichever is free that day.
- AKA hybrid seating
- Yeah I thought we called it hot desking. Or even better the "sit wherever there is space" policy
You need to show up every morning like those japanese street vendors that unpack a whole fucking restaurant out of a wheelbarrow
- Lmao yep, waste like 10 minutes every day unpacking my whole office setup and dealing with the inevitable little issues with the provided dock and monitor

To be fair, if it's my personal office space that I have to put up with 40-60 hours per week, you're damn right I want it to feel homely. I'd have me some nice slippers under the desk, too.

Tangent, but I hate how the word "homely" in English means both:

having a feeling of home; cozy and comfortable

And

lacking in physical beauty or proportion

And then we have "homey". It's all so confusing.
- Definition two seems to be an American addition. I don't think it exists as a definition outside the US.
- Sarcasm can be a bitch sometimes. Overlook the Nimrod's strike, for example.
Mate if you're even reaching 40 hours you've been there too long. If you're racing 60 hours then it's basically your home!
- I do 40 hours a week. It's average isn't it?
  
  Although yeah I admit it's too long. But I used to do 60 houses a week and that's unhealthy.

Heat being that person, but…

Why do people need to make up stories like this? The picture is cool enough as it is. No new guy did this after asking to decorate their desk. It makes the entire thing cringy.

How much heat?
- D’oh! Gonna leave it.

I can see HGTV using this as a premise for a new show: Cube Wars!

Not gonna lie I’d binge watch a season or two of that
That sounds like a fun watch, good idea

Looks neat but also like a horrible office workplace.

If you didn’t specify constraints, you’re lucky that’s all they did.

Dude must be planning on staying awhile.

Ironically, he spent so much time decorating his cubicle that he didn't get his work done and got fired.
- heyyyy, you're not OP

Cubicles are still in use? Because they combine the worst points of all solutions.

Space heater is probably the only thing that would be an issue. It’s not only a potential fire hazard, but also going to be a big power draw.

Could just be a novelty light
Space heaters are limited to 1500 watts, which runs on average .20/hr. If they are run constantly while the employee is present (8 hours/day, but not likely) then it would cost the employer $32/mo. Granted, a non-zero number of employers are stingy enough to make this an issue, but realistically, it's not a big deal. Also they have safety systems in place which make them not particularly hazardous. Most have thermal fuses that burn out/disconnect power at temperatures significantly below what is needed to start a fire.
- Space heater is never a cost issue, it's an issue because it gets plugged into a circuit with a dozen office PC's, which will now trip constantly. And some people like to aim them at their feet next to the office PC and melt the case.

Sign me up for your newest team member's cube decorating service!

Hmmm...million dollar idea?

With a whole new line of products

The wallpaper could be a large piece of canvas that's held up with pushpins? Or maybe its patterned cloth and you can still pin things up. Why stop at a mini fireplace?

You can also donate surplus to elementary school teachers and so they can bulletin boards look nice. Donate because they are on thin budgets already, but you can justify it to the board with something like "getting future customers familiar with our service early on"