The StandDesk was developed by millennials, is marketed right at millennials, as well as has been gobbled up by millennials in impressive volumes. While it carries a ten-year guarantee (the lengthiest of any type of Chinese-made base), in this instance it’s not necessarily a dependable indication of the expected helpful life of the lifting columns. But also for the price, the StandDesk is a great lower-cost option to the UpLift, Jarvis as well as other Chinese-made workdesks. Regardless of its stability issues this is a far much better item than the Autonomous SmartDesk or IKEA Bekant can ever before wish to be, and a good value in general. It’s the mid-priced offering in the broad category of Chinese-made workdesks that is swaying consumers from both its more affordable and more expensive peers.

StandDesk Building And Construction, Configuration, and also Devices

Developing the desk is quite direct if you adhere to the detailed guidelines. Every one of the screws, bolts, washing machines, and also spring washers come in different bags that are noted with their location: table top, structure, as well as spares. There’s a consisted of hex tool for fastening all of the bolts into the structure, or, appear a hex little bit into your power device– simply take care not to over-tighten.

Every one of the parts have a high quality surface to them with rounded corners to avoid cut hands. Below is a shot of all the bolts that are secured to the leg assembly– it’s not going anywhere!

Standdesk-Leg

The foot assembly likewise consists of height-adjustable turning equipments to maintain the front-to-back movement of the desk, which was very useful for the carpeted office flooring. I’m likewise making use of a flooring mat to secure the carpeting from chair wheel damages at resting elevation, as well as push the chair when I’m transitioning to standing height.

Standdesk-Foot

The luxurious controller was worth the investment. The switches are all variable stress set, implying the backwards and forwards arrowheads will readjust the height by 1/10th of an inch with a solitary press, or continually readjust the height by around 0.7 inches per second if you hold the switch for two seconds. The memory buttons are comparable in layout: press to remember the height setting, or hold the button down for five secs to save a brand-new height value. I’m using switch 1 for my resting setting and button 4 for my standing setting, which provides me 2 as well as 3 for anything I may need in the future.

Standdesk-Memory-unit

Using my Standdesk

I’ve been using the new workdesk for a couple of weeks as well as have actually documented my preliminary impressions:

The motors are quiet but can be listened to in the following area over. It takes probably 25 seconds for the desk to completely transition from sitting to standing based upon my presets.
I use an Ergotron side-by-side keep track of arm (particularly this LX design), creating the desk to get a little rough when I change my weight against the key-board. In hindsight, I must have acquired the crossbar upgrade for my workdesk after establishing the weight of my displays. If you plan to do a twin monitor arrangement, obtain the bar.

Because gravity compresses the discs in a human spinal column, I require to raise the desk higher in the early morning and reduced it at night.

An anti-fatigue mat is absolutely essential for long period of time standing. I acquired an Octagonal floor covering from SmartCells, utilizing rubber “cells” that are envisioned below.

Performance

Regardless of any kind of problems I might have had with the mobile or the cookie-cutter design, practically every one of those problems gotten rid of when I actually came down to using this point.

I really did not assume it was also possible, the StandDesk in some way takes care of to be even extra stable than the Jarvis, both at sitting and also standing elevations. Many days I like to run my Jarvis at max height while pressed versus my wall surface; not always because it’s that wobbly, but even if I desire as much stability as I can get.

The StandDesk one ups the gambit even additionally, proving to be equally as steady on its own at standing height as the Jarvis is with wall support. This is all without the business’s bar addition, which they claim includes even more security when purchased as a part of the bundle deal.When it comes to weight resistance, the StandDesk shares yet a lot more stats with the Jarvis, being ranked for as much as 350 lbs of weight capacity.

I have actually been making use of the desk for regarding 3 weeks currently for everyday job (and adhering to standing desk best practices), whether it’s inputting out testimonials similar to this one from our desktop computer or a laptop computer every now and then. The desk stands up well versus non-coastered beverages, as well as the finish in addition to the desk still really feels just as smooth and glossy as the day I opened it despite days of sweaty wrists wresting on it and also several wipe downs with a cloth.

I never ever deliberately attempt to damage any type of workdesks also hard, during some lighter tests (throwing a collection of secrets onto it from a distance, for example), it still held up without also many visible indicators of damages.

Finally, when I measured the noise result of the desk while it climbed from a resting setting to standing and back once again, it was without a doubt the quietest we’ve evaluated yet. I might barely get it to make more than regarding 9.5 dB of sound, so if your greatest concern is the whirr of your motor, this is most definitely the one for you.

Client service

Currently, normally I don’t consist of much concerning the client service support of any type of provided firm, only because I feel that in general if a product works the means its meant to, I should not ever before have a reason to call them in the first place. As well as while I desire I can state that held true throughout my experience with StandDesk, I simply can not complete this evaluation without pointing out the various, apparently endless issues I came across attempting to get my desk assembled.

For starters, the desk I was sent really did not have any memory phone included originally, which suggested I had no other way of in fact regulating the up/down function on the desk itself. I got in touch with StandDesk about this issue, that got back to me around a day later with an apology and a promise that a new one would be shipped out soon.

Standdesk evaluation handset

The source of all our problems …
Regarding 4 days later a handset got here in the mail. The phone at first turned on, yet it wasn’t long prior to I observed that none of the programmable switches functioned, neither did the down button, but also for some factor the “memory” button handled the down feature simply great. I called the business again, and also they apologized for the mixup as well as said they would certainly have a brand-new panel and also control box out to me within the week.

Over two weeks later on my new panel and also control box got here. When I mounted them both the desk lastly began working the means it was intended to, yet not after nearly a month of waiting and also back and forth with a company that couldn’t keep in mind to deliver a core part of their product inside the very same box from the start.

Points to Consider

Regardless of its bankable features, this stand up workdesk likewise has its very own drawbacks. Because no singular stand workdesk could record all of the features that you may need, you might consider these in your decision-making.

Lack of a Crossbar as standard

Not having a supporting bar is absolutely not a deal-breaker, particularly thinking about a few of our other favored workdesks such as the Fully Jarvis likewise don’t have one. This workdesk does have one if you want, yet it is a paid add-on (more on this later on as well).

The bar is seen by some as an obstacle, making it more challenging to place your legs easily below the desk. Others, on the other hand, locate that they give included security, commonly important when workdesks are fully extended.

We have not review any kind of issues of the security of this desk, so we don’t believe its something to truly be worried regarding, although if you truly wanted a workdesk with a crossbar then we recommend you have a look at the Varidesk ProDesk 60 Electric.

StandDesk does use a different add-on crossbar that you can include to the workdesk yourself, simply for an extra $49.95.

Security

The security of a standing workdesk is among one of the most vital elements of these workdesks. Without a secure workdesk you’ll locate it tough to focus, which could cause you ending up being less curious about using the desk at standing elevation. To obtain the most effective return on your investment, you’ll want to enjoy when utilizing the desk.

Due To The Fact That the StandDesk Simple is the initial desk that I have actually checked with an optional cross assistance, I will break down my stability tests into 2 sections. Both tests will consist of the typical front to back rocking examination and also a delegated best wobble. The very first will certainly lack the cross support as well as the secondly will be with it. Simply to note, StandDesk.co claims that the addition of the cross assistance can raise stability by approximately 15%. I have no concept how they generated that number.

Without Cross Assistance

Left to Right: The wobble test was a different scenario. StandDesk Simple was the 2nd workdesk that I checked that tottered at the bottom with weight on the desktop. The very first was the IKEA Bekant. By the time it reached 36″ the rocking motion was bad. Yet factor it would certainly affect your work.

With Cross Assistance

Front to Back: Adding the cross assistance does not impact the rocking motion. The StandDesk Simple began to experienced a shaking motion at 36″. By 41″ the shaking motion was bad.

Delegated Right: Including the cross support to the StandDesk boosted the wobble motion for lower elevations. With the cross support the wobble activity didn’t start till you reached 35″. By 39″ the wobble activity came to be poor.

Keep in mind: It’s really crucial with flexible standing desks to totally tighten all equipment. If there is hardware that is not completely limited, the motion experienced when extended to standing elevation will be exaggerated. This is especially true with a desk structure that includes 32 screws, there are far a lot of points at which the desk has a possibility to move.

Final thought

Like all the Chinese bases we’ve examined in our labs, we have to narrow our referral on the StandDesk Pro to shorter customers with narrower desktops, as the stability simply isn’t there for a huge mass boosted high off the ground. American-made desks will be better matched to these applications, as well as for a rather evident reason. Essentially all American-made bases are made in United States factories that are had by Swedish, Danish or German firms that created this industry, and their typical people are a lot taller than the typical Asian consumer, so they began making longer-stroke training legs a long period of time ago. And also they have even more robotic automation, laser-cutting tools, and large experience making standing workdesk bases, needless to say.

If you’re not too tall, don’t have an extreme amount of heavy devices on your desktop, and don’t require too wide of a workdesk, the StandDesk Pro will certainly give you good bang for your buck.

All that might alter with Yu’s promised StandDesk Pro 2.0 style that he anticipates to launch at some point in the future. Initially we were informed we ‘d see it by June 2018. More than a year later it has yet to materialize, as well as Yu states he’s had trouble getting the product quality he requires out of a number of Chinese factories he’s tried collaborating with. The brand-new style is apparently going to be a lot easier to assemble and have a heftier bar design, to name a few refinements. He states the brand-new base will be supplied in both a “T-Leg” and “C-Leg” configuration, minimizing our issue concerning side-load stressing on the lifting columns.

If this brand-new base ever before involves market we’ll upgrade you here. However we’re not holding our breath any type of longer as the most current news on the company is that Yu shut the little Los Angeles office as well as has transferred it to join with all its various other employees in southeast Asia.

In the meantime, a brand-new $399 standing desk with impressive performance has actually been present via the new joint venture in between US-based iMovR as well as China-based Eureka, the i1 electric standing desk. While limited in dimension as well as color options, it has actually taken the mantle away from StandDesk’s long-ago status as the very best standing workdesk under $400.

The StandDesk was created by millennials, is marketed right at millennials, and has actually been gobbled up by millennials in excellent quantities. While it carries a ten-year guarantee (the longest of any kind of Chinese-made base), in this case it’s not necessarily a dependable indicator of the expected valuable life of the training columns. But for the price, the StandDesk is a fantastic lower-cost choice to the UpLift, Jarvis and other Chinese-made workdesks. Regardless of its security issues this is a much much better product than the Autonomous SmartDesk or IKEA Bekant could ever before wish to be, and a good value in general. It’s the mid-priced offering in the wide classification of Chinese-made workdesks that is swaying clients from both its less costly as well as more expensive peers.

StandDesk Building, Setup, and also Gadgets

Building the desk is quite easy if you comply with the comprehensive instructions. Every one of the screws, bolts, washers, and springtime washers come in different bags that are marked with their location: table top, structure, and spares. There’s an included hex device for attaching every one of the bolts into the structure, or, pop in a hex bit right into your power device– simply be careful not to over-tighten.

All of the components have a high quality finish to them with rounded corners to prevent cut hands. Below is a shot of all the screws that are fastened to the leg setting up– it’s not going anywhere!

Standdesk-Leg

The foot setting up additionally includes height-adjustable turning equipments to support the front-to-back motion of the desk, which was really useful for the carpeted office floor. I’m likewise utilizing a flooring mat to protect the carpet from chair wheel damage at resting elevation, and also push the chair when I’m transitioning to standing elevation.

Standdesk-Foot

The deluxe controller deserved the financial investment. The buttons are all variable pressure programmed, meaning the up and down arrowheads will change the height by 1/10th of an inch with a solitary press, or continuously readjust the height by about 0.7 inches per 2nd if you hold the switch for 2 seconds. The memory switches are similar in design: press to recall the elevation setup, or hold the button down for five secs to store a new height value. I’m making use of button 1 for my resting setting and also switch 4 for my standing position, which provides me 2 and also 3 for anything I might need in the future.

Standdesk-Memory-unit

Utilizing my Standdesk

I’ve been making use of the brand-new desk for a few weeks as well as have jotted down my initial impacts:

The electric motors are quiet however can be heard in the following area over. It takes perhaps 25 seconds for the desk to completely transition from resting to standing based upon my presets.
I make use of an Ergotron side-by-side monitor arm (specifically this LX design), creating the desk to obtain a little rough when I move my weight against the key-board. In knowledge, I ought to have purchased the bar upgrade for my workdesk after establishing the weight of my displays. If you plan to do a twin monitor setup, get the crossbar.

Due to the fact that gravity compresses the discs in a human spine, I need to raise the desk greater in the early morning and also reduced it in the evening.

An anti-fatigue mat is definitely essential for long duration standing. I bought an Octagonal mat from SmartCells, using rubber “cells” that are visualized listed below.

Performance

Regardless of any kind of issues I might have had with the mobile phone or the cookie-cutter layout, pretty much all of those worries gotten rid of once I really got down to using this thing.

Although I didn’t assume it was also feasible, the StandDesk in some way manages to be much more stable than the Jarvis, both at resting and standing elevations. Most days I like to run my Jarvis at max elevation while pressed against my wall; not always since it’s that shaky, yet just because I desire as much security as I can get.

The StandDesk one ups the gambit also further, showing to be just as stable on its own at standing elevation as the Jarvis is with wall support. This is all without the company’s bar addition, which they claim includes much more security when acquired as a part of the package deal.When it concerns weight resistance, the StandDesk shares yet even more stats with the Jarvis, being ranked for approximately 350 pounds of weight capability.

I have actually been using the desk for concerning 3 weeks now for everyday work (as well as following standing workdesk best methods), whether it’s keying out reviews such as this one from our desktop computer or a laptop every now and then. The desk holds up well versus non-coastered drinks, and the finish on top of the desk still really feels equally as smooth and also glossy as the day I opened it despite days of perspiring wrists wresting on it and multiple wipe downs with a dustcloth.

Though I never purposefully attempt to damage any type of workdesks also hard, throughout some lighter tests (tossing a collection of keys onto it from a distance, for example), it still stood up without way too many visible indicators of damages.

When I determined the noise result of the desk while it rose from a sitting position to standing and also back again, it was by far the quietest we have actually examined. I can barely get it to make more than regarding 9.5 dB of sound, so if your greatest concern is the whirr of your motor, this is certainly the one for you.

Client service

Currently, normally I do not include much concerning the customer support assistance of any kind of given business, just because I feel that generally if an item works the means its meant to, I should not ever before have a factor to call them to begin with. As well as while I desire I might state that was the case during my experience with StandDesk, I simply can’t complete this evaluation without stating the numerous, seemingly countless issues I experienced trying to obtain my desk assembled.

For beginners, the desk I was sent really did not have any kind of memory mobile phone consisted of initially, which implied I had no chance of really regulating the up/down function on the desk itself. I called StandDesk concerning this problem, who returned to me around a day later on with an apology as well as a promise that a brand-new one would certainly be shipped out soon.

Standdesk evaluation handset

The resource of all our problems …
Concerning four days later a handset arrived in the mail. The phone originally turned on, yet it had not been long before I noticed that none of the programmable buttons functioned, neither did the down switch, but for some reason the “memory” switch handled the down feature simply great. I got in touch with the business once again, as well as they excused the mixup and said they would have a brand-new panel and control box out to me within the week.

Over 2 weeks later on my brand-new panel and control box got here. Once I installed them both the desk ultimately started functioning the method it was intended to, yet not after almost a month of waiting as well as to and fro with a company that could not keep in mind to ship a core part of their product inside the same box from the start.

Points to Think about

Despite its bankable features, this stand up workdesk additionally has its very own drawbacks. Since no singular stand desk could capture all of the attributes that you may require, you might take into consideration these in your decision-making.

Lack of a Bar as requirement

Not having a stabilizing bar is absolutely not a deal-breaker, particularly considering several of our various other favorite desks such as the Completely Jarvis also do not have one. Actually, this workdesk does have one if you desire, but it is a paid add-on (much more on this later on as well).

The crossbar is seen by some as a limitation, making it more challenging to position your legs conveniently below the desk. Others, on the other hand, locate that they offer included stability, often important when desks are completely expanded.

We have not review any type of complaints of the security of this desk, so we do not think its something to truly be concerned concerning, although if you truly desired a desk with a bar after that we advise you have a look at the Varidesk ProDesk 60 Electric.

StandDesk does provide a separate add-on crossbar that you can add to the desk yourself, simply for an additional $49.95.

Security

The stability of a standing desk is just one of the most important facets of these workdesks. Without a stable desk you’ll discover it difficult to focus, which might lead to you coming to be less thinking about using the desk at standing elevation. To obtain the best return on your investment, you’ll wish to enjoy when utilizing the desk.

Since the StandDesk Simple is the first desk that I have checked with an optional cross assistance, I will break down my stability examinations into two areas. Both examinations will consist of the regular front to back shaking test as well as a delegated right wobble. The initial will be without the cross support as well as the secondly will certainly be with it. Simply to keep in mind, StandDesk.co states that the enhancement of the cross assistance can increase stability by approximately 15%. I have no concept just how they came up with that number.

Without Cross Assistance

Left to Right: The wobble test was a different circumstance. StandDesk Simple was the 2nd desk that I checked that tottered near the bottom with weight on the desktop. The initial was the IKEA Bekant. By the time it got to 36″ the shaking movement was bad. Beyond this point it would certainly impact your job.

With Cross Assistance

Front to Back: Adding the cross support does not influence the shaking movement. The StandDesk Simple began to experienced a shaking motion at 36″. By 41″ the rocking activity misbehaved.

Entrusted to Right: Including the cross support to the StandDesk boosted the wobble activity for reduced elevations. With the cross support the wobble motion didn’t begin until you reached 35″. By 39″ the wobble motion ended up being negative.

Note: It’s very vital with flexible standing workdesks to fully tighten up all hardware. If there is equipment that is not entirely tight, the activity experienced when extended to standing height will certainly be overemphasized. This is especially true with a desk framework that includes 32 bolts, there are far way too many points at which the desk has a possibility to move.

Verdict

Like all the Chinese bases we’ve checked in our labs, we need to tighten our recommendation on the StandDesk Pro to much shorter individuals with narrower desktops, as the stability just isn’t there for a huge mass elevated high off the ground. American-made workdesks will certainly be much better matched to these applications, and also for a relatively apparent reason. Essentially all American-made bases are made in US manufacturing facilities that are had by Swedish, Danish or German firms that designed this industry, as well as their ordinary people are a great deal taller than the typical Eastern customer, so they started making longer-stroke lifting legs a long period of time earlier. As well as they have much more robotic automation, laser-cutting equipment, and also sheer experience making standing workdesk bases, obviously.

However if you’re not too high, don’t have an inordinate amount of heavy equipment on your desktop computer, and also do not need as well wide of a desk, the StandDesk Pro will certainly provide you good bang for your buck.

All that may change with Yu’s promised StandDesk Pro 2.0 design that he anticipates to release sometime in the future. Initially we were informed we would certainly see it by June 2018. Greater than a year later on it has yet to emerge, and Yu states he’s had difficulty obtaining the product high quality he needs out of a number of Chinese manufacturing facilities he’s attempted working with. The brand-new style is supposedly mosting likely to be much easier to put together as well as have a heftier crossbar style, among other refinements. He states the brand-new base will be offered in both a “T-Leg” and also “C-Leg” setup, reducing our concern concerning side-load stressing on the lifting columns.

If this new base ever comes to market we’ll update you below. We’re not holding our breath any type of longer as the most recent news on the company is that Yu closed the tiny Los Angeles office as well as has actually relocated it to join with all its other staff members in southeast Asia.

In the meantime, a new $399 standing workdesk with outstanding performance has actually been present via the new joint venture in between US-based iMovR and also China-based Eureka, the i1 electric standing desk. While limited in size and also color choices, it has actually taken the mantle away from StandDesk’s long-ago status as the most effective standing workdesk under $400.