Freestanding desktop storage unit for support of a privacy panel

In combination a privacy panel and two storage elements, namely a first storage element and a second storage element:

• each storage element comprising:
• a front,
• a back,
• a top extending between the back and the front,
• a bottom spaced vertically from the top extending between the back and the front,
• a first end extending between the top and the bottom and between the back and the front, and
• a second end between the top and the bottom opposite the first end and between the back and the front;
• a vertical outer rear wall panel forming the back of the storage element;
• a storage comportment open forwardly to the front and defined between the top, the bottom, the first end, and the second end;
• a slide pocket defined forward of the inner rear wall panel parallel to the outer rear wall panel;
• the pocket open to at least one of the first end and the second end via an access opening in a respective one of the first end and the second end;
• the privacy panel comprising a thin sheet member with a first end and a second end;
• the privacy panel removably coupled to each storage element with a first captured potion of the privacy panel including the first end received within the pocket of the first storage unit, a second captured portion of the privacy panel including the second end receded within the pocket of the second storage element and with a free portion of the privacy panel between the first captured portion and the second captured portion external of the pockets extending out of the pockets via the access openings and between the first storage element and the second storage element;
• the first captured portion horizontally slidable in the pocket of the first storage unit through the access opening,
• the second captured portion horizontally slidable in the pocket of the second storage unit through the access opening,
• wherein when the first storage element and the second storage element are supported on a support surface with the outer rear panel of the first storage element disposed in the same plane as the outer rear panel of the second storage element, with the first captured portion of the privacy panel received within the pocket of the first storage element and the second captured portion of the privacy panel received within the pocket of the second storage element, engagement between the privacy panel and the pockets maintains the privacy panel disposed parallel to both the outer rear wall panel of the first storage element and the outer rear wall panel of the second storage element.