Did you know that, on average, you will spend around 12 years of your life working?
Scary, right? But what’s more frightening is the fact that for the majority of those 12 years, our bodies are idle, with glutes glued to chairs and backs hunched over computers.
As the demands of the intense, often cut-throat world of work competing for our attention, we often ignore the importance of good posture, regular exercise and mental health. And the result? Our well-being gets relegated to the backseat.
At HumbleWorks, we are no strangers to long workdays and poor habits. After endless hours cramped up in small offices and packed coffee shops, straining our backs and necks huddling over laptops, we decided that enough was enough. We realised that working well and keeping well didn’t have to be mutually exclusive, so we decided to make a change.
Who are we?
We are a fresh-thinking, proactive team of designers that exists to produce ergonomic, portable, sustainable standing desks that serve to improve people’s well-being. At HumbleWorks, we believe that good posture is conducive to a happy and healthy life. Our unique, visually stunning standing desks are designed to help achieve exactly this.
Whether you're a freelancer working from home, a budding entrepreneur, a junior at a multinational company, or a university student, we want to help you make your time at work as comfortable, healthy and inspiring as possible. After all, 12 years is a significant amount of time!
The virtues of being vertical
Small changes can truly transform your physical and mental well-being at work. By using a standing desk and adopting a good posture now, you will soon be well on your way to a better and healthier working life. While the benefits of standing are endless, some of the main advantages include:
- Lowering your risk of weight gain and obesity
- Helping maintain healthy blood sugar levels
- Reducing back and joint pain drastically
- Increasing productivity by up to 46%
But it’s not only about standing up: you need to maintain good posture, healthy nutrition, and regular screen breaks. All of these elements play a big part in a quality working life!
Improve productivity & well-being by focussing on good standing desk posture
Standing up as a means of keeping healthy is often overlooked. Believe it or not, standing is just as effective as walking! It increases energy, burns extra calories, tones muscles, improves posture, increases blood flow and ramps up the metabolism.
According to expert cardiologist Martha Grogan, a sedentary lifestyle increases the risk of cardiovascular disease. Shockingly, for people who sit for most of the day, their risk of heart attack is equal to that of regular smokers.
Taking a stand is therefore one of the best things you can do to safeguard your well-being now and in the years to come. By changing your work habits with either our Stan 1 or Stan 2 desks and focusing on adopting a good stand-up posture, you can save yourself from a plethora of health risks and begin to mine the endless benefits it brings.
Standing up at work may sound challenging, but much like any other habit, it will seem like second nature before long. The trick is to take it slow. For every two hours of sitting, we recommend standing for one hour. You can gradually increase this over a period of time until you’re standing for an entire workday. Just find whatever works for you and go with it!