are standing desks or moving every 30 minutes "special accommodations"?

[Anonymous]

In my fed office there are several people with standing desks. No doctor's note required but they bought them themselves.

[Anonymous]

I'm a Pre-K teacher; I'm constantly getting up and moving. I love it; it's a job that keeps me healthier than almost anything else out there. We got out daily down to 25 degrees as long as it's not raining too, which is often the highlight of my work day (not to mention all the health benefits of doing so).

[Anonymous]

Fortune 500 employee...they asked when I started and gave have s whatever desk setup I wanted. Probably 50% of my company has standing desks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Huh, never actually got my actual questions answered. That is why I posted here.

So are you going to contact your husband's HR dept and say he needs a reasonable accommodation? You're nuts. Please don't have children, being a helicopter wife is just too much.

[Anonymous]

OP here, another angle on the same information. Again, the questions were about workplaces in general.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/12/opinions/our-workplaces-shouldnt-have-us-sitting-on-our-butts-so-long/index.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Huh, never actually got my actual questions answered. That is why I posted here.

So are you going to contact your husband's HR dept and say he needs a reasonable accommodation? You're nuts. Please don't have children, being a helicopter wife is just too much.

Ok, so you think you are so smart. I'm going to (possibly) waste a few moments setting you straight. First, I never said anything about my husband needing special accommodations, and he doesnt. What I wondered, however, is if alternatives to standard desks are still rare, and it seems they are.

The other point of my original post, which someone undoubtedly sitting at a desk somewhere when they should be working felt the need to troll and then hound me to my next post here, was that IF we want as a society to follow this piece of health advice, then workplace culture would have to change such that it would be a normal thing for all people to get up every 30 minutes and walk around. Because I could see some bosses putting pressure on people to stay put, so, if a person wanted to say HEY, I need to move around every 30 minutes, they might encounter resistance only solved by a special accommodations request. But really, a person shouldnt have to ask permission to do this any more than asking permission to breathe.

Its not "nuts" to want to live. Its also not nuts to care about the health of not just your own spouse but of others in general. So, if you sit a lot, eventhough you are a nasty piece of work, I'd rather you not let your ignorance blind you from this health risk. Remember at one time people who were exercising every day were called nuts.

But you did give me a good idea. If my husband ever does have another life threatening clot, then it would in fact be entirely reasonable to ask for some kind of treadmill desk, if he decided that is how he wanted to do it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Fortune 500 employee...they asked when I started and gave have s whatever desk setup I wanted. Probably 50% of my company has standing desks.

I can see how it would be costly to do treadmill desks. Did you read the article? It appears the evidence for standing desks being a whole lot better is not there. Of course we have known for a while that standing for long periods of time is ALSO bad.

[Anonymous]

In my company (Fortune 100) we get a choice of what kind of desk we want, and can change pretty much whenever. Probably 1/3 of the men have standing desks, but I can't think of a single woman who has one. No doctor's note required, no cost to the employee.

[Anonymous]

Fed Employee here. In our office they provide a special room with some standing desks that we schedule for an hour or so here and there.

If we want them as our primary work desk we have to buy them ourselves.

Personally, I thought the idea was stupid until this year when I started to have major back issues and it hurts to sit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Huh, never actually got my actual questions answered. That is why I posted here.

So are you going to contact your husband's HR dept and say he needs a reasonable accommodation? You're nuts. Please don't have children, being a helicopter wife is just too much.

Ok, so you think you are so smart. I'm going to (possibly) waste a few moments setting you straight. First, I never said anything about my husband needing special accommodations, and he doesnt. What I wondered, however, is if alternatives to standard desks are still rare, and it seems they are.

The other point of my original post, which someone undoubtedly sitting at a desk somewhere when they should be working felt the need to troll and then hound me to my next post here, was that IF we want as a society to follow this piece of health advice, then workplace culture would have to change such that it would be a normal thing for all people to get up every 30 minutes and walk around. Because I could see some bosses putting pressure on people to stay put, so, if a person wanted to say HEY, I need to move around every 30 minutes, they might encounter resistance only solved by a special accommodations request. But really, a person shouldnt have to ask permission to do this any more than asking permission to breathe.

Its not "nuts" to want to live. Its also not nuts to care about the health of not just your own spouse but of others in general. So, if you sit a lot, eventhough you are a nasty piece of work, I'd rather you not let your ignorance blind you from this health risk. Remember at one time people who were exercising every day were called nuts.

But you did give me a good idea. If my husband ever does have another life threatening clot, then it would in fact be entirely reasonable to ask for some kind of treadmill desk, if he decided that is how he wanted to do it.

You're crazy. And if your husband needs an accommodation let him take care of it himself.

[Anonymous]

Accommodations aren't "special." They're just accommodations.
Sorry, pet peeve of mine.

[Anonymous]

Some companies require a doctors note in order to obtain a motorized standing desk.

[Anonymous]

People who have them just use them sporadically

[Anonymous]

In my small office, you can get one if you want one, no charge to the employee. I'd say about half of us have them. I use mine for hours every day.

[Anonymous]

Apparently this woman's dh can't even buy pants, so this is like rocket science.