Standing desks may not improve the health risks associated with sitting at your desk all day, a new study has found.

However, studies on whether standing desks are beneficial have been sparse and sometimes inconclusive. Further, prolonged standing can have its own risks, and data on work-related sitting has also been mixed.

If anything has boomed in the work-from-home space in the last five years it's standing desks (the standing desk market size was valued at $7.8 billion in 2023). With the rise of COVID in 2020, more people than ever traded in their morning commute to the office for a mid-day shuffle to their living

Standing desks have been trendy for over a decade, due in large part to their claims of increased health for those of us who use a computer for hours every day. A new study with years of data and tens of thousands of participants throws cold water on those claims, suggesting that standing desks aren’t helping with some core health problems.

Sit-stand desks reduce sitting but don’t lower blood pressure, and prolonged standing without movement may harm cardiovascular health, according to a recent study. A study led by an epidemiologist fro

A new report suggests that far from helping our health, switching from a sitting to a standing desk can be harmful. So what’s the truth?

A large new study found that standing for more than two hours a day doesn’t protect against the cardiovascular risks of too much sitting.

Over the years, numerous startups have gained traction by designing, making and selling standing desks as part of a workspace innovation trend to promote