> In our field studies of sit-stand workstations we have found little evidence of widespread benefits and users only stand for very short-periods (15 minutes or less total per day). Other studies have found that the use of sit-stand stations rapidly declines so that after 1 month a majority of people are sitting all the time.
So sit-stand desks are a bad solution because people don't actually use them? What's wrong with this logic?
Of course when they are a novelty, people will try them out and then fall back into old habits.
Here in Denmark practically every office worker in every workplace has a sit-stand desk, and so I have many years of experience observing this. About ten percent (my rough estimate) actually use them, but those that do use them a lot, and stand between 25-50% of the time.
I would not work anywhere without one, simple as that. I even got one for my home office (they are available from many dealers here).
So sit-stand desks are a bad solution because people don't actually use them? What's wrong with this logic?
It's not bad logic if you consider more contexts than just you deciding whether or not to use a sit-stand desk on your own. If most people don't actually use the standing feature of these desks, then this would make the desks a bad solution for an organization trying to find ways to boost the health and morale of its employees. Why spend the money if nobody will use it?
However, for a motivated individual who is willing to use them (like me), it is irrelevant if "most" people don't bother to use the stand feature of their sit-stand workstations.
Swede here. Close to everybody has had electric sit-standing desks at my workplace for as long as I know. I've been using sit-standing desks for close to ten years. My use has increased over the years. Now I find it more comfortable to stand than to sit and i use it roughly 80% of the time.
I'd estimate around 25% of the other workers actually use them for standing.
So sit-stand desks are a bad solution because people don't actually use them? What's wrong with this logic?
Of course when they are a novelty, people will try them out and then fall back into old habits.
Here in Denmark practically every office worker in every workplace has a sit-stand desk, and so I have many years of experience observing this. About ten percent (my rough estimate) actually use them, but those that do use them a lot, and stand between 25-50% of the time.
I would not work anywhere without one, simple as that. I even got one for my home office (they are available from many dealers here).