Guy Osmond Managing Director

STAND MORE OR SIT LESS?

The Great Sit-Stand Debate

Putting things in perspective

Sit-Stand Workstations

• What’s all the fuss about?

• What’s the right message?

• So do I need sit-stand desks or not?

• What are my product choices?

• What else should I be thinking about?

What’s all the fuss about?

What’s all the fuss about?

• Are sit-stand desks new?

• Is “getting up” a new thing?

• The “Sitting Disease”

What’s the right message?

• This is not a binary choice (sit or stand)

• It’s about sitting less

• Think about all

the ways you can

do that

So do I need sit-stand

desks or not? • Seeing the wood for the trees

– Orderly approach

– Systematic implementation

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So do I need sit-stand

desks or not? • Culture and training

– Risk of misuse (or disuse) if not properly

implemented

– Use of software & wearable devices?

What are my product choices?

• Sit-stand or sit-sit, electronic, gas-lift or

crank

• Adapting an existing sitting desk

• Treadmill & cycle desks

Whole Desk Options • Sit-stand

– EU: 650-1250mm

– US: 560-1220mm (22” – 48”)

• Electronic, gas lift or crank

• Single or two stage

• Sit-sit, typically 650-850mm

Adaptations

Treadmill & cycle desks

© Episodes, BBC 2

What else should

I be thinking about? • Saddle seats and perching stools

Successful implementation

& a healthier workplace • Train users to understand how to use the desk, when to make posture changes and what

good posture feels like (sitting and standing)

• Raise the desk up too high at the end of the day. It makes life easier for cleaners and forces

you to reposition it in the morning.

• Raise the desk when colleagues approach and have your conversation standing up.

• Stand for telephone conversations, especially those when you need to be assertive.

• Stand to sort papers and files.

• Install “poseur tables” for short standing meetings (gas-lift height-adjustable versions are

available)

• Have walking meetings.

• Park as far away from the building as possible.

• Wear a pedometer and track your steps. Compete with yourself to improve your average!

• Assemble a team to take part in the Global Corporate Challenge.

• Use the stairs, not the lift (some organisations slow the lifts down to encourage stair use)

• In Hot Desking areas install a pair of sit-stand desks at the end of each set of standard

desks. This will work very well provided good policies and procedures are in place (and the

Hot Desking facilities are properly implemented and managed).