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I'm having increasing trouble with back pain sitting at my desk all day. It's not so bad in the summer as I'm more active in the evenings but this time of year there's less incentive to get out in the dark and cold after 10 hours on my arse.
Basically I need to spend more time standing, but there's only so many tea rounds I can do. Has anyone any experience of these desktop raisers? Are they useable, easy to adjust from sitting to standing, big enough for a laptop and a screen?
Any suggestions and recommendations welcomed.
Some guys at work have them - varidesk I think - they seem to like them.
We have these at work, have been using someone else's for a while as my back was aching after a pulled muscle in the gym. They raise high enough for some of the very tall people we have here (head ducked through doors tall), they are easy enough to move up and down and either extend out or go directly up. My main problem with it was the stability when up, the monitor shook a little as I typed.
I'd look into the full desk risers though as I would hope they are more stable.
Use an adjustable desk at work, can raise the height from stupid low to near perfect height for my 6'1" bad posture and it is great but I've not been standing for a while now...need to sort that.
Ikea do them. We have one, works fine.
standard issue here in sweden. they are great. i tend to stand for an 1 , sit for 30 mins , the up again
repeat until i retire
I've just installed one of these in my home office - along with a monitor arm to raise the screen to the correct height, and as I've been saying on the bad back threads, a HAG Capisco chair.
It's good because as well as being able to do the standing up thing, you can sit at the correct height. I'm 6'4 and standard desk heights are way too low.
It's been great for me and the chair is incredible. Feels odd at first but I'm doing all-day stints with no pain or even aches (and I have a bulging disk at L-5).
Raiser desks at the work office were no good for me - without the monitor arm to lift the screen up to a good height, I was just getting a stressed/painful neck from looking down. Plus, I felt like a dick being the only one up so high while everyone else was sitting. But at home, standing feels natural.
But now, I'm dreading having to go back to a client office and use their desks.
We're introducing them where I work. I like them. Currently we've a mix of the desk top raisers and the ones where the whole desk electrically raises and lowers. Of course the latter is significantly better, but also significantly more expensive (can't believe how expensive office furniture is).
The desk top ones are fine when you're standing but not so great if you're sat as they're a good 20cm or so thick sat on top of the desktop. Beware, some swing outwards as they raise, they're a PITA compared to the better ones that raise and lower vertically.
We're slowly adding them at work as well - they are great. The ones from IKEA seem to work just fine and are sensibly priced compared to some of the stuff out there.
All desks in our place. I vary between sitting and standing, run two monitors plus USB dock and laptop itself, loads of room. Ours are stupidly expensive ones from a dedicated office furniture supplier (can't remember who off the top of my head), pretty much best of breed, but aside from maybe not having neater cable runs I'm not sure a cheaper one would be any the worse.