Staples Union & Scale Electric Standing Desk Review: Micro Movements

The table tallness ranges from 25.5 to 51.1 inches, and nan dual motors glide effortlessly up and down, and they're not excessively loud. You'll want to beryllium observant erstwhile lowering it—there's collision detection, and it successfully stopped nan table from crushing a stool aft I put it underneath, but it seems to dangle connected wherever nan entity nether nan table is. I rolled my spot successful truthful that nan arms of my chair were straight nether nan desktop, and erstwhile I pressed nan little tallness preset, nan table kept going and would person astir apt surgery my chair arms (or toppled forward) had I not forced it to stop. Maybe had I not stopped it, nan sensor would person paused nan cognition automatically, but it was a small excessively adjacent to my liking.

I haven't noticed overmuch wobbling erstwhile nan table goes up and down, though if you put unit connected nan beforehand of nan table (maybe you're leaning guardant pinch your elbows connected nan surface), there's a flimsy guardant shift. This didn't origin immoderate problems.

Staples offers a seven-year warranty for nan centrifugal and legs, on pinch a fewer different parts, but nan power box, cables, power panel, and desktop are only covered for 5 years. That's astir nan aforesaid arsenic what you'll find connected a Flexispot, though short of desks for illustration the Branch Duo that don't costs that overmuch more. The bully point astir buying from Staples is that returns are ever free, and you tin driblet it disconnected astatine a adjacent unit shop (though you'll still person to disassemble it).

Small Shift

The mediate fastener connected nan power sheet turns connected Micro Movement mode, and astatine first, I thought it didn't work, but that was because I didn't recognize really micro nan movements are. Once turned on, nan table will move up 2.36 inches wrong 5 minutes, extremity for 2 minutes, past move down nan aforesaid magnitude successful different five-minute increment. This will repetition aft 48 minutes and rhythm 4 times passim 4 hours.

Staples says this will thief trim fatigue and promote movement—subtle shifts successful posture and musculus engagement—but nan only logic I started noticing it was because my arms felt pinched. I group nan table up perfectly to my tallness and seat—my elbows sat level pinch nan desktop without rubbing nan surface. But for a fewer minutes pinch this characteristic turned on, my elbows abruptly were resting connected nan separator of nan table, and it wasn't pleasant. It useful a small amended erstwhile you're standing, though you'll still consciousness your arms resting connected nan array arsenic nan table creeps upward.

I didn't find nan Micro Movements characteristic helpful. I didn't consciousness for illustration it encouraged movement, and I'm still fatigued from, well, everything. The champion portion of a opinionated table is that it enables you to guidelines up, which will hopefully past induce immoderate existent activity passim your workday. The Micro Movements consciousness akin to nan progressive seating hype, which has never felt peculiarly effective.

Thankfully, it's an optional feature, and you tin disregard it. And you astir apt should if fund is connected your mind, because Staples has different dual-motor 55-inch desks without this feature, but they're not cheaper. You tin size down to the 48-inch opinionated desk, but it only has a azygous motor.

This Union & Scale is simply a coagulated table for nan money, pinch easy assembly, elemental configuration, and a dual-motor strategy that operates smoothly. That said, Flexispot's desks person much desktop customization options, sizes, colors, and accessories you tin adhd on, and they costs astir nan same, if not less. I've had much problem pinch Flexispot's assembly process successful nan past, though, if that's worthy something.