[makecheck]

I prefer to take frequent walks, which also helps to clear my head and forces me to do other exercises like climbing stairs. A “standing desk” just seems like a really complex solution that doesn’t even address any part of the problem except the sitting.

Also, standing desks are really weird in a cubicle situation where suddenly your neighbor is towering over the wall for an hour, peering into your space.

[ghthor]

Standing desks in open offices make me feel uncomfortable. I get pretty bad anxiety when I feel like I'm bothering someone else so I tend to try and only stand when my neighbors are standing.

At home office desk is 100% standing, DIY table mounted on top of 2 wooden chairs. If I'm getting tired of standing and leaning around, time for a walk. My productivity is so much higher at home compared to my companies open office. Wish I could convince them to let us just make team "rooms" in the open office, ala Valve style.

They bought us all standing desks with wheels, but were not allowed to roll them around. VP of engineering jokes that after I brought it up all the desks would be wheel-less come Monday. Little does he know that if those wheels aren't gone next week my desk is moving were ever I find a space I feel more comfortable, anarchy in the engineering wing, eyes open, no fear, be safe everyone.

[markrages]

Reminds me of the Peopleware story about cubicles being sold as modular furniture, but God help you if you actually reconfigure the cubicles to suit your team's organization.

[ghthor]

It's like giving a kid a prebuilt Lego model and expecting them to never take it apart and build something else. No sane parent would expect that, I wonder why I keep all my creative ideas to myself and struggle with motivation problems and execution inititive...huh... can't be that I have zero agency granted to me in arranging my workspace. Heh

[ghaff]

I work mostly at home and I mostly just get up and down a lot. A lot of what I do is writing and I find that writing a few paragraphs and then getting up and thinking about where I might want to take things next is a pretty effective workflow for me.

Other times, I do focus for a longer period of time.

I have a multi-monitor setup in my office but these days, I mostly work on a laptop that I'll take to different rooms around the house.

[greglindahl]

Cubes come in more than one height, are you talking about the short ones?

Also, does having a standing desk stop you from talking frequent walks? Have you seen someone who advocates standing desks recommend not having any other mitigation?

[EpicEng]

>Cubes come in more than one height, are you talking about the short ones?

I've never seen cubicle walls higher than ~5'. Most people (and we're talking software devs here, so men) are a fair bit taller than 5'.

[greglindahl]

I've had a couple of offices where the cube farm required me to stand on my toes to see over the top, and I'm 5'9".

[brianzelip]

I can second the awkward towering co-worker.