Standing Desks
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@RoguePacket said:
@ambarishrh Article has a couple good points—
- Standing is being treated as the new smoking
- Adjustable desks are good to allow one to sit when tired
I also liked the bit about they felt the more abstract work was better done sitting. Would be interesting to see a more scientific test done for longer than a week.
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@JaredBusch Check this article from lifehacker http://lifehacker.com/5881393/one-year-at-my-standing-desk
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I would like to try it. Not sure whee it would fit into my collection of workspaces though.
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I've been wanting to try it. There's a filing cabinet in my office that is the perfect height to use as a standing desk. I've persuaded my boss to go standing, which he's been doing for about a month now. The biggest thing that puts me off is that my co-workers would think I'm nuts. Either that, or they'd think I'm just copying my boss to suck up to him. Or probably both.
I'm really looking for a setup that allows me to spend half my time sitting and half standing, but that's difficult with two monitors.
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Fog Creek was famous for having convertible desks so that people could switch back and forth all day.
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We're going to have convertible sit/stand desks at our new facility; I'll post some pictures once we get settled in next month!
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I am getting a new mount for my monitors that I can raise and lower easily so I might thing about a small stand for my keyboard mouse so I can change back and forth. Might be worth it.
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@Minion-Queen said:
I am getting a new mount for my monitors that I can raise and lower easily so I might thing about a small stand for my keyboard mouse so I can change back and forth. Might be worth it.
We were on the verge of getting the Versa-Desks for that; a little chunky but might be worth looking into!
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@MattKing nice. Look forward to feedback on those.
What kind of price are they?
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@scottalanmiller Honestly I wasn't involved when we were looking at them; looks like Amazon has them for $275 on the small one.
Note: Called the Vari-Desk.
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As long as you can switch between standing and sitting, it seems like a good idea to me. It's being in the same position for an entire workday, whether it be on your feet or on your bum, that causes problems.
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At least on your feet you can shift around more.
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@MattKing said:
We're going to have convertible sit/stand desks at our new facility; I'll post some pictures once we get settled in next month!
That will be cool.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@MattKing said:
We're going to have convertible sit/stand desks at our new facility; I'll post some pictures once we get settled in next month!
That will be cool.
I'm actually really pumped, I'll post some pictures of our new facility as well... I don't think they'd get the same appreciation on my Facebook haha.
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What is the new facility?
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Haha I don't want to ruin the surprise but I'm very excited. We're working with ~40k sq feet and a small office right now. The new facility is much bigger with a lot more bells and whistles. It's great to see us come this far.
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Very cool.
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I am going to rearrange my current desk to be a standing desk tomorrow.
we'll see how it goes, now:
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New layout. It is not quite tall enough, but I need to get work done this afternoon.
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Nice let me know how you end up liking it.
