Before you tell me how you regularly use yours, I am saying you’re a minority, not that you don’t exist
Every desk in my work office is a standing desk. A handful of people use them, the rest don’t. And personally I believe that’s enough to justify buying them all.
So even if youre right that a majority are unused, I disagree with the implication that they are a waste.
The facilities team at our office would previously build a C-shaped box out of MDF or plywood to sit a regular, fixed-height desk on top of.
To be fair they did a nice job, they were sturdy and would have recesses for the desk’s legs to sit in to prevent sideways movement. But the problem then became “what about when those people wanted to sit”, so tall office chairs - that didn’t match the rest of the chairs in the office - had to be bought, undoubtedly at considerable expense.
The new, all-standing-desks use-it-if-you-want-or-don’t-it-doesn’t-matter-to-us regime seems to just avoid a lot of unnecessary shifting of furniture.
That’s like any other accessibility feature honestly. If it helps a good amount of the population and doesn’t hurt anyone else, then it’s a net positive. It saves the company in workers comp complaints overall I’d imagine.
It’s not primarily for standing though, more like easily adjustable
I use mine with utmost regularity: once every 6 months
I forgot mine can stand. Oops
I don’t use a standing desk.
Personally I’m waiting for someone to come up with the laying desk. I want to be fully reclining, with a couple of monitors suspended above my head, and the two halves of my split keyboard on little tables under my handsI have one at home but I don’t stand at it much, just for a few minutes here and there. But it’s still useful that it moves. Its good to have it at the exact right height and raising it makes moving cables easier. I plugged in a new USB dock on my static desk at work the other day. It was a pain in the arse, the hole of which I almost exposed to the whole office when I got up off the floor.
They are still great for cable management
I switch position more now that I’m at home. I’ll more likely stand when I’m tired, as they taught us in the army.
Yup, I’m here to agree. Got one at home and work, only used it about twice in a day for all of 5 minutes
Start with it standing in the morning. Lower it when you feel like it. Then after lunch start standing again, lower over time.
Now that’s a great routine, will try it!
I set an alarm that goes off after a couple hours on my work computer, it’s been working for me
We have them where I work. I’ve used the standing function, oh, maybe 2-3 times. Is that enough to count?
I use mine every day in sit-mode.
Samesies! We should be careful about hanging out in social media echochambers though.
Some standing desks have an interface that can be used to setup diverse automations. For I example I made it automatically rise when it detects that it was on seating position for more than 40 minutes.
fancy!! mine is adjustable by hand crank. (And yet I alternate b/w sitting and standing setup more frequently than my colleague whose desk is electrically powered).
I have a standing desk. I use it all the time. Reading about all these people who just sit down while they work on stuff feels weird, like, how do you get anything done? I don’t even have a chair, it would be pointless. If I want to sit, I just go to the couch.
I might be in the minority but I love my standing desks. I’ll sit once in awhile but I’d guess that 90% of my day is standing.
And to those who think standing is just being in one position all day and therefore is just as bad as sitting, I completely disagree. In practice I’m constantly shifting around, moving one leg back or forward, or walking in circles when I’m talking during a meeting and don’t need to look at my screens. Sometimes I’ll bring a chair over and put one knee on the seat for a few minutes to stretch my quads and hip flexors. It also helps if you get a soft pad to stand on or shoes designed for being on your feet all day.
My desks even go really low, which I squat at for about an hour a day. Full heels on the ground squat, keyboard and screens low enough to work without cranking my neck.
I’ve been working behind a desk for 25 years, and next to a true ergonomic keyboard I think my standing desks have done the most to keep my body from breaking down.
You’re pretty right. I even got myself one for home because I thought it would be useful. Now I only usually extend it if I’m doing cable management.
Though what’s also really nice is being able to make little micro adjustments to get the right height. For example I change it by 2 cm depending on whether I’m wearing house shoes, so my knee fits better.
I think this comment convinced me to get a standing desk. For some reason, I can never get my legs to fit under a desk comfortably, even if I adjust the chair height
I use different heights depending what I’m working on. I never stand at the thing, but setting it high to do detailed electronics work, setting it low to comfortably use music electronics on, or setting it just high enough to wheel my full 88-key weighted keyboard under but still use my computer makes it absolutely worth it.
I work in an office full of engineers, and all of these freaks use them standing all the time.
I mostly agree with you, though. I been a lot of places where they all stay at the same height.
Mine pretty much only gets raised when I need to tuck my office chair under it (basically never)
