It's your usual work day, so you sit in front of your desk, ready to chip away at your long list of tasks. The next thing you know, your lower back hurts, your eyes are sore, and your legs are numb. You look at the clock, and lo and behold, two hours have passed!
If that's your daily work life, now is the time to transition to an electric standing desk with drawers. A standing desk benefits you by helping you avoid prolonged sitting, which can be harmful, especially if done for at least eight hours daily. As the Mayo Clinic explains, researchers link prolonged sitting with health woes like obesity, high blood pressure, and high blood sugar.
To that end, our team at Uncaged Ergonomics put together this guide on finding the perfect electric standing desk with storage compartments. Read on for practical tips on improving your ergonomics!
Consider Adjustability Range
Prolonged sitting is bad enough for your health, but poor posture and other ergonomic hazards can compound the problem. So, for your new desk to help you combat these concerns, it must have adjustable heights. You must be able to adjust it to a level appropriate to and tailored to your height and work or use requirements.
Standing Height and Posture
As an article published by RUSH.edu explains, good posture involves:
- Ensuring the head is on top of the body and aligned with the spine
- Keeping the shoulders down and the back straight
- Maintaining the neutral position of the back, hips, and knees
- Placing the feet shoulder-width apart
- Distributing body weight evenly
Now, imagine your computer screen on top of your new standing desk. To maintain proper posture, you must keep your head straight and your eyes aligned with the top of the screen. When laid flat on the desk, your forearms should be at a 90-degree angle with your upper arm.
So, your new desk should allow you to set it to a level wherein you can maintain the above-described posture and position.
Sitting Height and Posture
Good sitting posture is pretty much the same as good standing posture, with a few additions:
- Keeping the spine aligned and supported by a chair's backrest
- Sitting with the knees at or just below the height of the hip
- Ensuring the feet can reach and stay flat on the ground
Minding those guidelines, you should be able to determine the height of your new desk when you adjust it to accommodate your sitting position.
Uncaged Ergonomics manufactures adjustable desks with drawers designed for users of varying heights. Our smooth, tempered glass-topped Rise Up Glass Electric Standing Desk is a perfect example. It has a wide adjustment range of 28.5 to 46.3 inches, making it ideal for standing or sitting while studying or working.
Factor in Desk Organization and Drawer Accessibility
For many, clutter is one of the biggest productivity drainers, detracting from focus and impairing attention. Indeed, Verywell Mind says clutter can have adverse effects, like interfering with concentration and creating stress.
As you can imagine, work and study areas can quickly become messy and disorganized with papers, pens, notebooks, and other knickknacks. If your current non-adjustable desk looks like this, it's time to take control and switch to an adjustable electronic standing desk with a 3-glide drawer.
Why 3-glide?
First, as a gliding drawer, this part of your desk will smoothly slide in and out of its compartment. Unlike traditional runners that could quickly get stuck, 3-glide drawers run on tracks that allow them to move as you please. They also let you fully open the drawers, giving you easy access to the very back without removing everything in the front first.
Mind the Nifty Tech Features
With electronic standing desks, you can say goodbye to the need to crank a manual adjustable desk to get it up or down. With the touch of a button, you can control the descent and ascent of your innovative motorized desk without huffing or puffing. Its electric motor and lifting columns let you easily switch from sitting to standing and back.
All those features make electronic standing desks a game-changer, but some models have taken things up several notches higher with extra tech features. Take Uncaged Ergonomics' Rise Up Glass Electronic Standing Desk as an example. We've fitted these with extra nifty tech to keep you powered up, including:
- 1 x USB-C
- 2 x USB-A
- 2 x AC Outlets
- LED display
- A memory keypad for saving up to four preset heights
- One-touch operation for saved heights
Our standing desk is also impressively quiet. It moves silently and generates sound only at 46 decibels (dB).
Keep Safety in Mind
Imagine you have a small filing cabinet under your sit-stand desk, which is currently in a standing position. For some reason, you or someone else put a mug on the cabinet and forgot about it. Thinking nothing could go wrong, you set the desk to a sitting position.
Unless your desk has Gyroscopic Anti-Collision, lowering it could tip the mug, causing a mess. And it's just one example; many other incidents, like the desk hitting another object on its way up or down, can happen.
For those reasons, it's best to consider investing in an electronic standing desk with a Gyroscopic Anti-Collision system. The system uses sensors to detect tilting or obstructions along the desk's path. When it does, it stops the desk's ascent or descent and drives it in the opposite direction, helping avert potential property damage and safety risks.
Luckily, you don't have to look far and wide for a desk with such technology, as Uncaged Ergonomics' Rise Up Electronic Standing Desk comes with Gyroscopic Anti-Collision.
Find the Perfect Electric Standing Desk With Drawers Today
Consider height adjustability, drawer style, additional tech features, and anti-collision technology when buying an electric standing desk with drawers. With these factors and tips in mind, you should be able to find the perfect desk for your needs and preferences.
Uncaged Ergonomics is your premier choice if you're ready to invest in a durable, long-lasting, and feature-rich desk that can help you avoid sitting for prolonged periods and transform how you work or study. We've manufactured high-quality furniture since 2010, assisting people to achieve better ergonomics.
Browse our broad selection of ergonomic office furniture today to start studying or working more productively!