Anyone's office moving to "Standing desks"?
Anyone's office moving to "Standing desks"?
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Sitting for most of the day is apparently really not good for you. When we design assembly cells at my new place standing and moving is now to a requirement, regardless of necessity (this caused some grumbling from the floor). Now there's kind of a "suggestion" that you can have a "standing desk" if you want one (I don't). I'm wondering how long until standing while working is a requirement for office personnel too. A company would probably reap health benefit rewards from implementing such a policy. Has anyone's company took the plunge yet?





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My last company started an ergonomics program, and after that, about half the engineers requested a standing desk, and I only saw about 10% of any one of those actually use it.
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My job is mostly thinking, and I can't think on my feet...
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RE: Anyone's office moving to "Standing desks"?
One thing I recommend is one of the "standing mats" that you sometimes see in front of kitchen sinks (only much bigger). Standing on a concrete floor all day is tiring without one.
More to the OP's question, everyone one in my office has a stand/sit desk, but I'd say most just sit at them.
Are the desks being implemented standing only? Or do they move up and down?
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another day in paradise, or is paradise one day closer ?
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Again, I don't really have a 'body type' that would make this sort of chair all that practical.
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Was he an engineer? If he was and he dies that way, he sort of deserves it!
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The boss set up his desk in stand-up fashion a few months ago, so now there's no way you'll convince me to go stand-up. I'd just look like a brown-noser!
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That giggles my cables too
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Skip,
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RE: Anyone's office moving to "Standing desks"?
I normally sit all morning, and then stand for a while to start the afternoon. It keeps me awake!
If I find myself fidgeting I'll so back to sitting.
The change of position is what is good for you.
The only thing that I don't like is that the lower tray for the keyboard makes the KB a bit too high for me when sitting.
I might just remove it. There is room in front of the monitors to place the KB there when standing.
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I only had to use it a couple of times, but I think I would not have liked to work like that all day, every day. Of course, in 1977 we got our first CAD/CAM system and we had a large format pen plotter so from then on virtually all of the burner-templates were 'plotted', ink-on-Mylar.
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