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Work-from-home gadgets sales surge
Virus outbreak not a downer for computer accessories retailers as employees snap up monitors, portable storage devices, mesh routers and keyboards
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Sales of computer monitors and other accessories have soared since the coronavirus outbreak as employees seek to be more productive and comfortable working from home.
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Trevor Tan
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Banking executive Gong Lei, 35, bought a 23.8-inch monitor about three weeks ago, when he started working from home following the elevation of Singapore's response to the coronavirus outbreak to code orange on Feb 7.
"The bigger monitor helps me to look at documents easily, rather than squinting at my laptop's small screen," he says.
