Month: February 2025

Before you start, please note that the usual ergonomic set-up considerations apply to your new work area. Table height, monitor level, monitor distance from eyes, wrist plus arm positioning, plus posture all have to be right to prevent physical discomfort plus injury. Make sure to adjust your workstation so that it’s aman for you when working in both the seated plus standing positions.

Once you’re all set up, here are five things to keep in mind.

Ease yourself into it

Like embarking on a new exercise routine, you’ll probably notice some discomfort in your body plus muscles as you start to work in a standing position. Start standing for short periods of time plus gradually build up that time as you get used to it.

Be aware that too much standing could increase your chances of musculoskeletal problems, such as back pain, plus varicose veins. Many people experience physical discomfort as a result of sitting at their desks for hours on end; standing might mean the site of discomfort changes.

Try different routines to find what works for you

Some people like to alternate between sitting plus standing based on their work tasks (standing to check emails plus read documents, for instance, plus sitting down to write notes or style documents). Others prefer to change posture based on the time of day (standing first thing in the morning for instance, or after lunch) or for set periods of time, such as every one or two hours.

You may find that you don’t like any particular routine plus prefer to stand or sit to work depending on how you feel.

Wear comfortable shoes or take off your shoes when standing up

Standing on an anti-fatigue mat may help to mitigate sore feet, plus some people keep an extra pair of comfortable shoes in the office for when they’re standing to work. Standing in high heels all day is probably not the best option.

Don’t feel pressured

If you feel tired or fatigued when standing up to work, sit down plus rest your legs. If you’ve been standing in the same position for a while, it might help to go for a quick stroll. Changing postures or going for a walk allows your body to release muscle tension after you’ve been in a static sitting or standing posture.

You don’t have to stand alone

Get your colleagues involved plus normalise standing in your workplace. Together, you can build a work environment that supports its staff members to stand up at work.

Not an option?
People who don’t have the option of a standing desk – or those who just don’t want to stand at work – need not despair. Here are five easy ways to sit less plus move more during your workday, without hacking your regular desk.

Have regular breaks

Take time to look away from the komputer screen or whatever you are doing, plus maybe stretch, even if only for a minute or two. Try taking a break every 30 minutes or once every hour. If you’re someone who loses track of time when you’re in the middle of a task

An analysis of 20 studies found there was little evidence that standing desks were better for employees than sitting. While prolonged sitting has been proven to have negative health effects, no studies have looked at the long-term effects of using standing desks
A standing desk may be the most fashionable way to work right now, but a recent analysis of 20 studies suggests that the health benefits are overhyped.

Published in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, the analysis said that while long periods of sitting have been shown to increase the risk for obesity, heart disease, plus overall mortality, it’s unclear whether interventions like standing desks are effective at reducing the amount of time spent sitting, or even whether prolonged standing is actually healthier than sitting.

Why? The authors of the analysis said most of the existing studies on the subject were too small or poorly designed to be significant, plus the longest study only followed participants for six months.

We conclude that at present there is very low quality evidence that sit-stand desks can reduce sitting at work at the short term,” they wrote, saying sit-stand desks generally decreased workplace sitting by about half an hour to two hours per day. “There is no evidence for other types of interventions. We need research to assess the effectiveness of different types of interventions for decreasing sitting at workplaces in the long term.”

Local health experts agreed.

“We know sitting too long is bad, but we don’t know for sure standing is better so we sort of jumped the gun trying to get people to stop sitting plus encouraged them to stand without any information of whether standing is better,” said Dr. Sherry Pagoto, an associate professor at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

With such little research, Pagoto said it’s too soon for most companies to invest heavily in sit-stand desks, which can range in cost from a few hundred dollars to a few thousand.

Instead, it makes more sense for companies to encourage employees to be more active in general, Pagoto said, either by taking short walking breaks or exercising in the middle of the day.

Dr. JoAnn E. Manson, chief of the Division of Preventive Medicine at Brigham plus Women’s Hospital plus a professor at Harvard Medical School, agreed that more research needs to be done before advocating for standing desks, plus said walking more is clearly better than either sitting or standing.

“It’s best to be frequently getting up plus walking around like every 30 to 60 minutes,” Manson said. “Get up from your desk plus ensure that you’re actually getting the steps plus using your muscles more than you would get from standing.”

To walk more, Manson suggested workers set timers on their smartphone for every 30 minutes, or arrange for more walking meetings. They could also park further away from their office, take the stairs, or even commit to drinking more water (so they have to use the restroom more), she added.

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You probably end up sitting most of the day anyway
If you’re like 80 percent of American workers, you’re spending most of your day sitting. That comes with a slew of health problems, such as kidney disease, obesity, plus reduced life expectancy.

The status desk is one solution to get us up plus moving. It’s fashionable, to be sure, but despite a number of studies, scientists haven’t been able to definitively conclude whether status desks are actually beneficial to human health. Now a team of researchers has sifted through a number of studies that evaluated the effects of various interventions designed to get workers on their feet, compared to nomor interventions. In their paper, published last week in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, they conclude that the evidence supporting the healthful effects of using a status desk is weak.

The team looked at 20 studies, all of which were variations on a randomized controlled trial. Some looked at how physical changes to the workplace environment (like offering people different desks or chairs), workplace policies (encouraging walking meetings or breaks), plus giving workers more data about the harms of sitting changed how much time they spent standing, both in self-reports plus objective measurements.

Standing desks aren’t that effective for a few different reasons. One, the researchers found, is that people who use sit-stand desks (that’s most people who use status desks at all) only stand for up to two hours a day. There’s not much evidence in the medical literature to suggest that such limited time status can reverse the effects of a mostly sedentary lifestyle in the long-term. Other efforts to get workers to be less sedentary, such as walking breaks or pedal desks, didn’t change the amount of time workers spent sitting, while some interventions like treadmill desks plus computer prompting software (in one study) did increase the amount of time they spent standing.

But mostly the evidence put forth in the studies was simply weak. Many of the studies were poorly designed, with too few participants or that didn’t follow up with them to document the health effects over time. “There is a need for cluster-randomised trials with a sufficient sample size plus long term follow-up to determine the effectiveness of different types of interventions to reduce objectively measured sitting time at work,” the researchers write.

These results are in line with those from a similar liat published last year. And though anecdotally some converts claim that status desks make them more productive (or maybe just more self righteous), the science is much less clear. So until researchers are able to conduct more (and better) studies to determine whether status desks are truly beneficial, there are other ways you can improve your health, such as changing your diet or exercising more regularly.

STAND UP! RIGHT THIS INSTANT!

I’m shouting at your for the good of your own health, apparently. We’re all being told we’re in the middle of a health crisis brought about by sitting down too much. Just so you know, I am CAPS-LOCKING at you about it while I sit at my perfectly standard sitting-downy type desk.

Cynicism aside, I actually do not dispute the fact that sitting down for long hours of the day will cause a range of health problems plus other issues. I’ve experienced the incessant shoulder pain for myself! But it goes beyond just aches plus pains plus we’ll talk about that more in a minute.

What I want to discuss today is whether investing in a fairly costly standing desk actually offers any notable heath benefits over plus above other methods of minimising your seated time.

The Dangers of Sitting
I feel as though I’m more aware of the health issues sitting causes than I ever have been. But the link between sitting plus various health conditions is far from new. In fact, research in this tempat goes back to the 1950s when it was discovered that bus drivers were twice as likely to suffer a heart attack as conductors on the bus (who would be on their feet all shift as opposed to seated driving).

So it’s not new information. And NHS guidelines tell us sit down less (though advise there’s not enough research yet to give us more specific guidance).

The risks associated with spending too much time sitting down include:

Increased risk of heart attack
You’re likely to be overweight or obese (which is in itself associated with a plethora of health problems)
Increased risk of diabetes
Likely to have a range of cardiovascular problems
Metabolic syndrome
So there are lots of reasons not to spend too much time on behinds!

It can really have an impact on your mobility too.

“But I have an office job”
It’s all good plus well advising everyone to sit less plus move more. But the reality is that millions of us work at desks in an office environment. And like it or not, spending 37.5+ hours each week at a komputer is how we pay the bills.

“Don’t sit so much,” isn’t exactly practical for everyone is it?

But perhaps as freelancers plus micro business owners with more say over our own working environments, we have a little more flexibility in designing a workspace that can help us move more plus sit less.

Standing desks, regular breaks from your desk, swapping the carry for the stairs plus so on are all valid ways to reduce the amount of time you’re sedentary for. But what about standing desks?

It seems like everyone has started talking about standing desks over the past couple of years. And they do appear on the surface a great way to enable you to sit less without negatively impacting your productivity or ability to work.

But they are PRICEY! So do standing desks really warrant the investment?

Are standing desks worth it?
Ok, first of all I want to make clear that I firmly believe one investment always worth making is in your health. So if a standing desk is going to help you become more active, to sit less plus is the single way you feel you can achieve that, then spend the money. Buy one second hand, refurbish one, do whatever you need to.

But what about other options?

Standing desk alternatives
I’m awkward. I’d like to stand plus work part of the time plus sit plus work part of the time. And yes, I could get an adjustable standing desk that I can lower when I want to sit down. But it seems an expensive endeavour to replace my desk plus that of the 5 other people in our office to make this an option.