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We have a crank standing desks at work. Everyone has the same pattern. Once they crank it up, they stay standing for days. And once it gets cranked down, they sit for days. I'd love to have this motorized option.

I was surprised at the shape of the desk. Anyone care to speculate as to why they didn't go with a plain rectangle shape? I'm a big fan of the plain rectangle, not sure I want to spend $500 on something else.

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We've got electric motor ones in the new office I moved to recently. It is quite nice to switch back and forth throughout the day. 2 or 3 days per week, I will move to standing 2-3 times for 30-45 minutes. The other days I'm seated the whole day, but those seem to be the days that I'm moving to and from meetings.

Generally, I would say that 75% of people stay sitting most of the time, 15% will stand for about an hour per week, and the last 10% (including myself), stand fairly regularly.

I particularly like to raise it when I have others visiting my desk, it is nice to have everyone on the same level (literally, then hopefully figuratively).

Many of the legs and desktops for Ikea desks are interchangeable. So it maybe that the video just features the corner style. In fact within the Bekant line, I see quite a variety of desktops. Since Ikea has pulled the motorized legs off of the site, it is hard to say if they are compatible with any/all of the tops.

http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/categories/departments/wor...

A motor is a lot better than a crank but still a little tedious. Make sure you can hit the button once, do something else for a minute, then come back to find the desk at the right height.

My favorite so far are the pneumatic/spring desks. Someone walks into your office, two seconds later you're standing side-by-side pointing at things. When you're done, it's just as easy to go back down.

There's still a lot of room for improvement though, no matter which desk you end up with.

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