Sitting all day can kill you. Sit down and think about that for a moment. Then press a button on your SetMe Bench Desk, stand up, forget about that paranoid whiff of death, and continue working the healthy way. Some call them sit-stand desks. Others call them height-adjustable desks. And there’s that one guy who calls it an ergonomic, electric, motorised table lift.
Whatever your preference, the bottom line is that sitting on your bottom all day is bad for your health. Changing it up with an electric height-adjustable desk is the easiest way to fix it.
The Sedentary Problem
We sit a lot. You sit in the car, on the bus, on the train, or in the Uber on the way to the office. After greeting Felix at reception, you sit at your desk, at the conference table, and in the restaurant at that lunch meeting. Then you do everything in reverse until you get to the couch at home where all you want to do is sit down and relax until you lie down and go to sleep.
Why Sit-Stand Desks Are Good for You
According to the Mayo Clinic, sitting leads to a host of lifestyle diseases: “They include obesity and a cluster of conditions — increased blood pressure, high blood sugar, excess body fat around the waist and abnormal cholesterol levels — that make up metabolic syndrome. Too much sitting overall and prolonged periods of sitting also seem to increase the risk of death from cardiovascular disease and cancer.”
That’s why the NHS recommends that adults in the UK get up every 30 minutes, work standing, and stand or walk around while on the phone.
A Problem with the Walking Cure
Hang on. It’s time for a short walk. I’ll be right back. Okay. Where were we? Oh, yes. Sit, die. Stand, live.
Like the NHS recommends, strolling around the office every 30 minutes is always a good idea when you’re a desk-bound knowledge worker. Unfortunately, getting up from your desk has much the same effect as a colleague leaning over curiously with the phrase, “You look busy, but can I ask you a question?” Flow-state… interrupted. Reset time required: 15 to 30 minutes.
Creatives and programmers know all too well that the best work happens when you can string together two or three hours of uninterrupted peak productivity. This state of being in the zone is called flow. Alice Robb from the BBC reports that “Flow is associated with subjective well-being, satisfaction with life and general happiness. At work, it’s linked to productivity, motivation and company loyalty.” Productive, motivated, loyal employees are a great reason to help your people maintain flow.
Unfortunately, brisk mountain-climbing lunges and a fart every 30 minutes don’t fit well in the average corporate office and take everyone out of that happy, productive zone.
We hear you shouting to the heavens: “What could I possibly do to keep the workforce healthy without disrupting their productive flow? Is there a solution that will inspire even more loyalty in my office workers?”
The Sit-Stand Office Bench Desk Solution
European laws have made it mandatory in many countries to provide employees with sit-stand desks. It does cost a bit, but the money saved on public health costs and lost productivity makes up for it.
British law hasn’t yet caught up. Employers aren’t legally required to give every employee a height-adjustable sit-stand desk. That doesn’t mean we can turn a blind eye and pretend Sally in HR doesn’t have back issues. (Heaven knows, she talks about it enough.)
Sit-stand desks can be expensive—but we have the perfect solution.
SetMe Bench Desks Let You Gradually Adjust Your Office Culture
At the outset, let’s set the scene: SetMe isn’t just a subset of bench desks. It’s an asset in the set and setting of your office. It’s a workplace set piece you can pre-set, reset, and set up with ease. It’s a desk that adjusts to your mindset to offset the unhealthy setback of hours in a chair as you become increasingly heavyset.
If you thought the benchmark in office bench desks had already been reached, we can raise that benchmark with the push of a button—or you can choose a set height at setup. The SetMe height-adjustable bench desk is a trendsetter in the office furniture market.
It’s time to upset the status quo. Ready, SET, go! Okay, enough of that.
You can choose a desking solution that upgrades over time. With SetMe sit-stand bench desks, you can add pneumatic tops gradually as needed. Instead of crushing the piggybank, start with a mix of static, fixed-height desks and motorised, pneumatic desks. Every SetMe workstation has the gliding mechanism built into the robust frame. When you’re ready to upgrade, simply add the control panel and motor to convert it to a height-adjustable desk.
How to Integrate SetMe Sit-Stand Desks into Your Office
Here’s what that might look like: suppose you need a dozen sets of six-person bench desks (72 workstations). You can specify that each six-desk island has three static fixed-height desks and three pneumatic sit-stand desks. One fixed-height desk can be standing height while the other two remain seated.
With hot-desking a hot topic, your employees can swap and take turns to stretch their legs while staying productive. When you see the benefits of a healthier workforce, next quarter, raise one more fixed-height desk per island with the SetMe drill-operated desk jack.
Did that productive, loyal workforce turn a bigger profit by midyear? Reward them with another dozen electric upgrades to show you care.
Let’s Accessorise Your Bench Desk
What would the most versatile bench desk solution be without accessories? Exactly—less versatile. With SetMe Bench Desks, you can have your pick of everything!
Choose fabric divider screens in blazer materials like Happy, Buddha and Angel, or go for upholstery that screams “quiet focus”, like Retreat, Solace, and Shelter. Hook paper trays, bookshelves, whiteboards and pen pots onto the top accessory rail.
Add monitor arms, electrical accessories and CPU holders. Get a set of mobile under-desk drawers and a tall cubby to store the 71 whiteboard markers you borrowed from Sally last year. For flexible seating options, pair your setup with the Agent Bar Stool or the Arran Bar Stool—perfect matches for height-adjustable desks.
You don’t even have to stick with a rectangular bench. Go for 120-degree desks with a beechwood MFC finish, a ply-effect edge, and smoked glass dividers. Whatever your company’s flavour, SetMe Bench Desks will fit right in.
You have a choice—and it’s not just which of the 31 fabrics you want for your divider screens. The choice is between a productive, healthy workforce who feels valued and the traditional, sedentary office that’s been killing people since the dawn of sitting. Tough choice, right?
Get in touch with the Furnify team. We’ll SetYou up for greatness with SetMe Bench Desks.