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As someone who has bad wrists from working on shitty desks, I can assure you that it matters. A good desk a fraction of an employee's annual cost. If you can't afford a desk, you can't afford to hire.
A desk is just a sturdy flat thing, how can that go wrong? Did you have chairs that didn't adjust to its height?
Typically the problem is that the desk won't adjust to my height.