Staples Union & Scale Electric Standing Desk Review: Micro Movements

The height of the office varies from 25.5 to 51.1 inches, and the double engines slide effortlessly from top to bottom, and they are not too noisy. You will want to be careful when you lower it – there is collision detection, and he managed to prevent the office from crushing a stool after putting it below, but it seems to depend on where the object is under the office. I rolled my seat so that the arms of my chair are directly under the office, and when I pressed the preset of the lower height, the office continued and would probably have broken the arms of my chair (or tilted forward) if I had not forced it to stop. Maybe if I hadn’t stopped it, the sensor would have taken a break automatically, but it was a little too close to my taste.

I have not noticed a lot of vacillating when the office goes up and down, but if you put the pressure at the front of the office (maybe you lean forward with your elbows on the surface), there is a slight change forward. This has not caused any problems.

Staples offers a seven -year warranty for the engine and the legs, as well as a few other parts, but the control box, the cables, the control panel and the office are only covered for five years. It is almost the same as what you will find on a flexispot, although short of offices like The branch duo It doesn’t cost much more. The right thing about the purchase of Staples is that the yields are always free, and you can deposit it in a retail store nearby (although you should always disassemble it).

Photography: Julian Chokkattu

Photography: Julian Chokkattu

Small quarter of work

The middle of the control panel button activates on the micro-movement mode, and at the beginning, I thought it did not work, but it was because I did not know how micro movements were. Once on, the office will go up 2.36 inches in five minutes, stop for two minutes, then descend the same amount in another 5 -minute increment. This will be repeated after 48 minutes and cycle four times for four hours.

Staples says that it will help reduce fatigue and encourage movement – subtle changes in posture and muscle commitment – but the only reason I started to notice it because my arms felt pinched. I perfectly put the desk on my height and my seat – my elbows poured at the level with the desk without touching the surface. But for a few minutes with this lit function, my elbows suddenly rested on the edge of the table, and it was not pleasant. It works a little better when you are standing, although you will always feel your arms rest on the table while the desk is slipped up.

I did not find the micro-around function useful. I did not feel like I was encouraging movement, and I am always tired, well, everything. The best part of a standing office is that it allows you to get up, which, hopefully, will then produce a real movement throughout your working day. Micro-movements feel similar to active media, which has I never felt particularly effective.

Fortunately, it is an optional feature, and you can ignore it. And you should probably if the budget is in your mind, because Staples has other 55 -inch double engine offices without this feature, but they are no less expensive. You can cut The 48 -inch standing officeBut it has only one engine.

This union and this scale are a solid office for money, with easy assembly, a simple configuration and a double engine system that works smoothly. That said, Flexispot offices Have more desktop, sizes, colors and accessories customization options you can add, and they cost about the same, if not less. I had more problems with the flexispot assembly process in the past, however, if that is worth something.