Check out Total Spaces (https://totalspaces.binaryage.com/) for Mac. I use this with dual monitors and love that each monitor can have its own virtual desktop.
I have my left monitor as a communications hub. It has only one virtual screen. I also keep my browser there.
I agree that VoIP is tailor-made for working from home, but I’m not sure about using VoIP over wifi. VoIP is very sensitive to internet issues and wifi connections can be quite unstable. Furthermore, the issues caused by the wifi connection would be intermittent so they’d be extra hard to diagnose.
VoIP Spear is a service that monitors your internet connection and uses network performance data (e.g., latency, packet loss, jitter) to estimate what your voice quality is at any given time.
VoIP Spear is useful because most network issues are intermittent, meaning that the issue has resolved itself by the time you contact support. VoIP Spear can give you information about problems that occurred in the past.
These days, latency is very low for most calls in North America. In fact, when we calculate MOS (which is a score for your call quality), we don’t even use latency if it’s under 100ms.
These days, I find more call quality issues are a result of issues on the LAN rather than the Internet. More specifically, I see voice quality degradation caused by routers/firewalls that are not quite able to deal with the volume of traffic being pushed through them.
I have my left monitor as a communications hub. It has only one virtual screen. I also keep my browser there.
I have a 3x3 grid on the right hand monitor.