VOLKSKRANT - AWAY WITH THE OFFICE CHAIR, THE OFFICE DESK IS HERE
No longer hanging on your chair all day, but standing up behind a height adjustable desk. In an increasing number of offices, the standing desk is expanding. Is it really in our advantage or is standing working just a hype? That sitting is "the new smoking", Istvan Haarman (42) had heard more often. But only when the Twentse contract manager read an article 2 years ago about the harmful effects of sitting all day, that it does harm to your health, he was convinced. And so he asked his employer for a standing desk. "I was the only one in the company, so my my colleagues thought it was a little strange.
