I am a researcher and work full time for a university remotely. I also spend a lot of my leisure and hobby time on my computer or iPad. We’ve been somewhat nomadic for the last few years (something to which I’m sure any of you who are also an early-career academics can also relate) so I’ve never invested in any decent office furnishings. Now that we are somewhere more-or-less permanently, I’ve splurged on the right furniture to ensure I am productive and ergonomically safe. The computing stuff has been with me for the long haul, but the furniture is new.
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I cheaped out on the chair but prior to moving to my current home I had been using the same chair from amazon and it worked just fine. At some future point I may invest in a multi-hundred dollar chair but for now this does the job.
I try to spend about 1/3 to 1/2 of my day standing and the Jarvis makes that super easy.
I still haven’t gotten my cable management quite dialled but I only got my office set up this weekend. I think I’d like to mount a power strip to the bottom of the desk or replace the cable grommet with a power grommet. Not sure where I’m going to take this aspect of my workspace.
I am also in need to a desk lamp. The Wirecutter suggests the Lumen LED desk lamp also from Fully, which looks fantastic but it a bit spendy (though since this is where I spend more than a workday’s worth of time at this desk every day, I’m not afraid to spend a bit). Looking around at other options and kicking myself for not getting it along with my desk since you save nearly 50% when you buy the lamp with the desk…
And of course I still have at least a hundred books that have not been unpacked and don’t have any book shelves to put them on yet! So that’s not pictured, but that’s next on the furniture agenda!
Anyhow, so far so good. Loving having a desk that isn’t wobbly, is at the right hight, and makes standing easy. It is a true treat, my previous desk was too shallow, wobbled like a drunk, and was at the incorrect height, which exacerbated my RSI. And just prior to moving here I spent three months living with family in a different country (for visa reasons) and working at a kitchen table, which was also far from ideal. So I feel absolutely pampered!
I’d love your suggestions for desk lamps, power management, etc!
We have the same desk only one size larger, also bamboo, with the curved front. It’s an excellent desk.
When we ordered the desk, we also ordered the lamp from Jarvis. We liked it, so we decided to get more. I discovered that there are a whole bunch of places you can get these; they all appear to be the same lamp with different company names stuck on them.
You can get the same lamp by Taotronics at Amazon for $30. I bought three and they all work great and appear identical (other than name and price) to the one from Jarvis/Fully.
Wow thanks for this! I had seen the other Taotronics LED desk lamps that had clunkier bases and features I didn’t need, but indeed, this is identical!
As I write this, I just heard back from Fully who are giving me the bundled price for the lamp ($35, rather than $75), so I’ll be grabbing the Fully-branded one anyhow (though I was just about to click “Buy with 1-click” on the Taotronics! They’re phone call came just in the nick of time!).
I sure could! I don’t mind the corner, honestly, largely because the window is right next to me. But I may fiddle around with the placement of the desk – the room is currently completely empty other than the desk and chair (and a few boxes) so the world (or the room…as the case may be) is my oyster!
That desk was seen in many episodes of Two and a Half Men after Ashton Kutcher replaced Charlie Sheen, if you’re curious about what it looks like outside a catalog photo. Example
I am curious at what level your laptop screen and external keyboard land when the desk is in standing mode. Just eyeballing it, it looks like the laptop screen would be too low when the keyboard is at an ergonomic height?
That’s accurate, good eye! I’d say it needs to be at least another 3 or so inches higher. I’ll be on the lookout for another stand or some other elevation system to remedy this. In the meantime, this is a huge ergonomic improvement over my previous setup (a cheap $40 desk that was too high and shallow) and the work setup I had been using during my 3 months of visa-limbo (a dining room table in someone else’s house).
So I’m chipping away at ergonomics one step at a time!
I like it! You only have what you need on there. I’m working on reducing clutter in my office. Sometimes I walk into some people’s offices and I have no idea how they find anything.
Yeah the Amazon Basics chair is definitely not a forever chair, but it really does the job. I think it’d be easy to spend 2x as much on something functionally equivalent.
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been my daily driver for the better part of ten years and, just like the actual pots, it keeps going and going!