At my job, I am constantly talking on the phone.
Working from home, you have to be available for phone calls and video conferences throughout the day.
Sometimes, I am unable to hear the person on the other line because of the noisey window unit AC in my office. I moved my desk to be located directly under the window unit AC because the room is very warm in the afternoon, and I can easily reach the power button to turn it off when I get a phone call. I do not think that it is necessary to keep the window unit AC on all of the time, but during the afternoon, the sun shining through the windows is very intense. The heat from the sun warms the office to nearly 85 degrees, at times. The windows are large and my desk is positioned to look out of the windows out to the street in front of my house. The first day of moving the desk to under the window unit AC went well. I didn’t receive too many calls that day, so I wasn’t having to turn the AC off and on all day. The office remained a comfortable temperature throughout the day and I was able to hear all of my phone calls. As the week moved on and got much busier, I found myself having to turn the AC off more and more throughout the work day. This started to get annoying and I ended up leaving the AC off most of the afternoon.