Standing desks vs sitting: why sitting ISN’T slowly killing you
You’re *sitting* at your desk working away, deep in flow, when you notice out of the corner of your eye someone staring at you.
Ignoring it at first, you continue to type away at your computer, but as the feeling of staring daggers grows stronger, it gets harder and harder to resist the urge of looking up and seeing who the culprit is.
Finally, you glance away from your screen and lock eyes with Susan in accounting — who is standing upright with perfect posture at her brand spanking new standing desk.
With complete confusion, you raise your eyebrows and mouth “what” — an appropriate response for someone who has felt like a zoo animal for the past fifteen minutes.
She stares at you a little longer, sadly shakes her head and then continues to work.
With growing insecurity you take a moment to ponder what’s going on — then it hits you. You’re sitting.
After a quick WebMD search you realize that at any moment you could drop dead in your office at the young age of 32 — that night you spend a grand on a standing desk.
