Standing desks are like gym memberships. Plenty of people (and offices) pay for them but never use them

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• 2910000@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  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 hands

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• NotJohnSmith@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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

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  • MBech@feddit.dk ⁨46⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    My biggest use for my standing desk is to set the precise perfect height.

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  • bestboyfriendintheworld@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Start with it standing in the morning. Lower it when you feel like it. Then after lunch start standing again, lower over time.

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    • NotJohnSmith@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Now that’s a great routine, will try it!

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• Stillwater@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Every desk in my work office is a standing desks. 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.

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• dotdi@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I use mine with utmost regularity: once every 6 months

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  • setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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  • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I forgot mine can stand. Oops

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• pipi1234@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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.

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• SethranKada@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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.

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• VitoRobles@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I have been using standing desks since 2010.

  Originally not by choice, because the only spot in the office that didn’t smell like farts was the high tops near the kitchen. The chairs weren’t very good and I was used to standing long hours anyways when I was a server.

  I’m still using standing desks. And i love seeing standing desks everywhere.

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• cloudless@piefed.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I have a daily alarm to remind myself setting it at standing position at least once a day. Sometimes when I am busy I ignore the alarm and forget.

  Thanks for your reminder, I have it in the standing position now. Usually keep standing for around 30 minutes until I get tired.

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  • abbadon420@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Lunch is usually my alarm. After lunch I raise the desk

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  • BertramDitore@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Same, I really try to raise mine up at least once a day, but it doesn’t always happen. Your alarm idea is a good one, think I’ll try that.

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• Hadriscus@jlai.lu ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Who doesn’t use them ? the only user of a standing desk that I know besides me (got it two years ago now) was a coworker, a programmer who used it on the daily. I don’t see why you wouldn’t use it, it’s so much better in practice. Perhaps you need to have experienced long hours at the desk in an intensive IT role before you jump. That’s certainly what drew me to get one

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  • XeroxCool@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Because sitting takes less energy, standing muscles are underdeveloped, and constant back pain is just the 8th natural wonder

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    • Hadriscus@jlai.lu ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s true. When I get lumbar pain, I shiver thinking of the lush hanging gardens of Babylon. When my tailbone gets crushed by hours upon hours of sitting, I remember the might of the Temple of Diana and think myself lucky to even sit next to her -figuratively.

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• infinitevalence@discuss.online ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Dozens of us use our standing desks! I know two people in my office that use them daily, and one who uses his frequently.

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• Pechente@feddit.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  They are still great for cable management

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• lowspeedchase@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  When I was considering buying one I researched the health benefits and from what I could tell - there are none. Most studies/researchers seem to agree that sedentism is bad, either standing or sitting.

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  • Lazylazycat@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s changing position that’s beneficial.

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  • cloudless@piefed.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The health benefits come from movement and posture variation, instead of just keeping the standing position.

    Walking desks would be ideal (for health), but that take up too much space and I think walking distracts my work.

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• corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I switch position more now that I’m at home. I’ll more likely do it when I’m tired, as they taught us in the army.

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• lightnsfw@reddthat.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Can confirm. I inherited one when I changed jobs, never use it. I do stand at my desk often but I am very short.

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• IWW4@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This is a spot on showerthought!

  My joint has a standing desk, but it is positioned so my back is to my door and it is under the glaring over head lights.

  So I set up on a desk that allows me to see my door and to offer some cover from the overhead lights.

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• Witchfire@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  They’re unreliable and break constantly. At least, I’ve had to call in support for my Uplift desk twice now, and my desk at work has also stopped working. I don’t know why they’re so shitty.

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  • chickenf622@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Sounds like a low quality one then. I’ve had zero issues with mine at home and work (used them for years), so I’m adding this brand to my avoid list.

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  • grue@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’ve never understood why people think they need a motorized desk when they could just get a desk that’s fixed in the high position and a stool-height office chair.

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  • Pechente@feddit.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Never had an issue with my Desktronic desk at home or the ones we used at work.

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  • cloudless@piefed.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I have the Ikea UPPSPEL gaming desk and it has been sturdy without issues.

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  • TheRedSpade@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    How does a desk stop working? Did it just fall to pieces?

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    • Witchfire@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The motors stop working

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• toynbee@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I got one then, the week after it arrived, I broke my ankle. It hasn’t really properly healed in three years so, while I’ve tried, I can’t really stand long enough for the desk to be useful in standing configuration.

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• FUCKING_CUNO@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Mine pretty much only gets raised when I need to tuck my office chair under it (basically never)

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• stupidcasey@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That’s because standing sucks, this isn’t me being lazy moving around doesn’t suck doing something doesn’t suck but standing in one position all day does suck I would say you should put a treadmill under it and it’s probably better than standing in one position but it still sucks and is impossible to work.

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