Standing Desk - Limitations

Limitations

While most modern desks are a standard height, there is no set height for standing desks. Users of a "sitting desk" are fairly immobile so it is relatively easy to adjust the height of a seat to compensate for variations in the individual height of the users. Users of a standing desk move around a bit more, so it is not practical to have them stand on a small pedestal or some other object. Thus, standing desks tend to vary greatly in height.

It was common in the past to have a standing desk made to measure to the height of the user, since only the rich could afford desks. One way to get around this problem when one had many users for a single desk, was to give an angle or slant to the writing surface, as was common on the typical drawing table. The other alternative, to produce a desk with adjustable legs, was less popular, but it was frequent enough to give birth to a precise desk form, the "table à tronchin" or "table à la tronchin".

The modern solution is presently found in the ergonomic standing desk, which can be adjusted to the height of most standing persons, and offers other possible adjustments, as is the case for a typical ergonomic desk.