I work in an Austrian company (in Austria). My laptop has a German keyboard layout. My USB keyboard has an American layout.<p>I have them both mapped to British layout and my fingers just &quot;know&quot; where things are. However, my conscious brain might not. I actually had to think really hard about where the &#x27;#&#x27; key is. On the American layout, it&#x27;s printed above the number 3 (Shift-3), but actually produces the &#x27;£&#x27; symbol. The hash is above the return key and is printed as &#x27;\&#x27;. On the German keyboard it&#x27;s actually in the &quot;right&quot; place, just to the left of the return key.<p>The biggest key I have problems with switching between American and British keyboards is the @ symbol. If I don&#x27;t remap the keyboards, I&#x27;m forever typing &quot; or @ incorrectly. On un-remapped German keyboards it&#x27;s Y and Z.<p>I still try to buy my personal laptops from the UK, so I have the correct keyboard. It&#x27;s a surprisingly big productivity loss to have incorrectly mapped keyboards.