[beckit]

Almost every job I've worked in the past twenty years around Seattle has let me have the choice of a standing desk. I know that some of my coworkers definitely preferred to have the stand up style of desk and were fairly productive in them. I took the standing option once and after two years of it, I found I prefer to sit "most of the time", especially so when I'm working on code. I found that after requesting the standup desk, I found a bit of guilt as I didn't want to stand most of the time. I compromised with a tall chair and a large foot rest instead of having facilities switch the desk back to sitting. This let me have a sitting desk that I could stand on occasion, but I could tolerate hopping down from the tall chair for only two years. I went back to sitting full time. Towards the end of my tenure my employer purchased sit/stand desks for everyone. Those were quite nice but pricey - I'd like to find one for my home office, but in the mean time, a sit down desk and taking regular walking breaks in the neighborhood seems to work for me.