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The whole thing is bad. We're chimpanzees chained to desks and they're trying to figure out if it's the chair that's killing us.
Humans are nothing like chimpanzees physiologically. Homo sapiens has a semi-aquatic mammal build.
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You can keep working with your (aka thinking) head while moving around. Sometimes change or setting can give birth to now ideas or approaches.
Not necessarily. I can sometimes take my problem with me and sometimes that's even the best thing to do, but not always and certainly not every 20 minutes. If you're in a typical office environment it's a complete non-starter as someone at the water cooler will smash your flow into tiny pieces.
Gluteus medius tendonitis. https://health.clevelandclinic.org/no-joke-your-desk-job-pro...
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My last company a number of people had treadmills. The walker always looked like they were headed toward me on calls. Group Zooms became hilariously ominous as more people marched toward me in unison.
Can people really type quickly and accurately on a treadmill at their desk? I tried that last year, and saw the error rate in my documents explode.
There you have it, the science is settled: work is bad for you.
The sad thing is that we could reduce the work week to three or four days and be perfectly fine. Yet we're not doing it.
On the bright side, my standing desk is great as an adjustable desk. It's nice to be able to get the height just right.
'The best posture is the next posture,' as they say.
Here's an article [1] from a few years ago from Cornell ergonomics researchers that is still relevant the discusses the pluses and minuses of both sitting and standing desks. Here is their recommendation: > Sit to do computer work. Sit using a height-adjustable, downward titling keyboard tray for the best work posture, then every 20 minutes stand for 8 minutes AND MOVE for 2 minutes. The absolute time isn’t critical…
That essentially reads to me as "you can't both be focused on computer work and be active enough to be healthy" Break my concentration EVERY 20-30 minutes to move around for at least 2 minutes? That's at least halving my productivity. It's a total non-starter. It's the sort of advice that everyone pays lip service to, but almost no one is actually able to follow.
