Jul
26
Standing for higher productivity
Posted under Productivity
I have been thinking alot about how much I have to sit to do my work. Programming and networking usually isn’t a whole lot of running around unless you are doing it wrong! But sitting for such a good portion of my day is probably is not good for me. And considering the recent back pain and muscle aches I have been experiencing lately, it even feels worse. So I am considering how to implement a stand-up desk that I can work while standing up.
I could go for the stationary desk which is like an architect’s table or purchase/make a desktop stand-top. I’d probably lean toward the stand-top since it’s more versitile and can be moved around easily if I don’t like where I am currently working.
Link: How To Stand Up Desk Top.
How to work more productively at your desk:
Think on your feet
Are you sitting down? Most of us spend the lion’s share of our workday seated. Yet have you tried standing for short periods throughout your day?On your feet: a Churchillian feat
In the evolutionary scheme of things, we were meant to stand up and walk. Thoreau accomplished great thoughts on his rambles around Walden. Winston Churchill and Douglas MacArthur didn’t walk so much as pace, and we have Churchill to thank for showing us how to be phenomenally productive while working at a desk standing up. The homemade, stand-up trunk top that he used at his country estate of Chartwell is the one that inspired our portable Stand-Up Desk Top. “When he went to work, usually late at night, he would shut himself in his study, ban loud noises, summon his stenographers and arrange his papers at his stand-up desk,” says Richard Langworth, a Churchill historian and the founder of The Churchill Centre (www.winstonchurchill.org). “Then he would pad up and down in his slippers and reel off prose into the wee hours.” (Franklin Roosevelt called them “the Winston hours.”) He once produced 3,000 words of a book in two days, thinking and pacing beside his stand-up desk.
Do you work standing up? Do you feel more or less productive because of it? Tell us your story!
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