| Thanks for the nice post. I'm already a convert. I was suffering from some neck pain issues, which have gone away. In fact I'm kinda the "standing desk guy" at my workplace. Here's the remaining problem. I work in an open-plan office area, I've got a desk that can be raised and lowered. But my desk is next to a hallway with a lot of traffic. When I'm standing to work, I'm face to face with a colleague who is very curious about what I do, and likes to get into conversations. And I think that because I'm standing up, everybody who walks buy thinks that I am the receptionist for my entire work group: "Is Bill here today? Do you know if Steve went to his meeting? When does Chris usually come in?" And when someone comes to ask me a legitimate question, all of my colleagues feel free to join the discussion, sometimes answering my question -- wrong -- before I can get a word in edgewise. These are more open-office issues than standing-desk issues, but I'm just offering a warning that y'all in open plan offices may have some additional issues to contend with when you switch to a standing desk. Style-wise, I'd love to have one of those gray metal foreman's desks that they had in old the fashioned factories. |