(If there is one caveat with this desk, it’s that it takes a bit more assembly than others. The rest of the frame is equally sturdy, with square metal legs that are reinforced with a bottom crossbeam that can be situated across the back to allow you to slide a chair in. It’s designed for the bumps and bangs of hammering, drilling, and sawing, so the occasional mashing of your keyboard will hardly make it flinch. It’s durable, not at all like a lot of the other inexpensive desks I considered, which are made of plastic or particleboard - cheap materials with cheap veneers that bubble and peel the moment your coffee cup collects a single drop of moisture. Since it’s designed to be used in a garage or workshop, the surface is made of solid wood. (Although the 52-inch desk is currently sold out, it also comes in 46-, 62-, and 72-inch-wide varieties.) And the 24-inch depth is similar to any office desk I’ve ever used. I have the 52-inch-wide version, which is perfect for setting up a monitor, some speakers, and whatever else you keep at your workstation. So when a friend told me about the workbench he’d been using as a standing desk, I decided to check it out.Ī workbench may not sound like the perfect WFH solution, and yet it is now where I do all of my work. Most of the standing desks and the contraptions that sit on top of desks to turn them into standing desks cost $400 or more, even the cheaply made ones. Now that I was at home, without an office mate across from me, the only person I affected by standing up would be me.Īs you might have inferred from me buying the cheapest chair on Amazon, I wasn’t looking to spend a ton of money. But when my former track coach suggested it as a possible solution to my pain, I decided it was finally time to give it a try. I didn’t like the idea of forcing so much of myself into the peripheral vision of the person in the cubicle across from me. That’s when I decided to give up on chairs entirely and switch to a standing desk.Īt my last office job, the two or three people who had switched to standing desks were constantly talking about how great it was, but I wasn’t ready. Surprisingly, it was better than the chair, since it forced me to sit up straight, but it wasn’t exactly comfortable. In a moment of desperation, I even sat on a wooden crate for a spell, since it was the only other seating option I had. I tried switching to a nicer, hipper desk chair a friend gave me for my birthday after hearing me complain about my back, but that didn’t work either. To be fair, this was my fault: I had bought the cheapest chair I could find on Amazon, and all the sitting at my desk was wreaking havoc on my lower back. The thing that surprised me the most, however, was the awful pain in my back. Feeling weird about my bed being in the background of Zoom calls? Constantly. I expected a lot of issues when I transitioned to full-time WFH near the start of the pandemic.
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