Standing desks

[Damon]

Anyone get any experience of extended working at a standing desk?

I like the idea of it as I find myself choosing the higher seats in coffee shops or meeting areas in the office. You can vary your setup, stand or sit on a higher chair etc. You also can't slouch as much if you are sat on a higher chair compared to a normal office chair.

I have also started to suffer a little with lower back pain so it helps me change position and manage it. Research into health impacts of sitting all day is pretty mature and the more vertical position helps me maintain a better posture.

Good reading on it here....


The Best Standing Desks | The Wirecutter

“It doesn’t matter if you go running every morning, or you’re a regular at the gym. If you spend most of the rest of the day sitting — in your car, your office chair, on your sofa at home — you are putting yourself at increased risk of obesity, diabetes, heart disease, a variety of cancers and an early death. In other words, irrespective of whether you exercise vigorously, sitting for long periods is bad for you.”

[evilagent]

Don't know if it's an urban myth, but I read that you burn 50 calories an hour more when standing.

[MPwannadecentincome]

These are popular in Scandinavia - the office I worked at in Stockholm only about 10% of people would stand from what I could see. Those that did seemed to like it.

[Old Greg]

Anyone get any experience of extended working at a standing desk?

I like the idea of it as I find myself choosing the higher seats in coffee shops or meeting areas in the office. You can vary your setup, stand or sit on a higher chair etc. You also can't slouch as much if you are sat on a higher chair compared to a normal office chair.

I have also started to suffer a little with lower back pain so it helps me change position and manage it. Research into health impacts of sitting all day is pretty mature and the more vertical position helps me maintain a better posture.

Good reading on it here....


The Best Standing Desks | The Wirecutter

I like to slouch.

[mudskipper]

I like to slouch.

WHS.

Jobs that require you to be on your feet are generally low paid:

McDonald's crewperson
Binman
Care assistant
sandwich board wearer.
Dog walker

There's a good reason we're paid a premium - it's danger money for our bad backs.

[anonymouse]

Link :-

http://forums.contractoruk.com/techn...ding-desk.html

I've got a 6 foot desk, half with laptop on a shelf above the desk, with chair for sitting down. The other side has a footstool on top of the desk, this gives a nice height for typing, the picture you showed has the keyboard too low for me. Windoze duplicated from laptop to monitor, so no messing about there either.

I've knackered knees, so it works well for me, I just use the half I feel like using, and move the keyboard from one side to the other.

[hyperD]

Mate of mine (working from home office) decided to do this. After a few days of painful legs and ankles said that this was actually quite good. Mind you his wife is into S&M so perhaps not an unbiased opinion.

Probably where that pikey airline CEO got his ideas from.

[northernladyuk]

WHS.

Jobs that require you to be on your feet are generally low paid:

McDonald's crewperson
Binman
Care assistant
sandwich board wearer.
Dog walker

There's a good reason we're paid a premium - it's danger money for our bad backs.

The old man has had a career on his knees, but funnily enough it's his ankles that went.

Mind you, who would have thought that a lifetime of working on his front would leave MF with a prolapsed how's-your-father.

[d000hg]

I quite like mine, standing all day is rather tiring though.

[RSoles]

Great idea, but they must come with the right equipment.