Standing Desk Converter

Standing desk converters against a full standing desk

A converter sits on the desk you already own and raises the screen and keyboard when you want to stand. The desk stays exactly as it is; only what sits on it moves.

That makes it the answer when the desk is worth keeping, or when replacing it is not on the table. It also suits anyone who would rather alternate through the day than stand for all of it, which is what most people actually do once the novelty passes.

Standing desk converter size and fit

The trade against a full standing desk is footprint and weight. A converter occupies part of the desktop permanently, so a small desk gets smaller, and the mechanism has a weight limit that a full desk does not. Check that limit against your monitor before ordering rather than after.

These run 31.5 to 32 inches wide and 16.5 to 17 deep, which takes a monitor and a keyboard comfortably and two screens only if they are small. Measure the desk depth before ordering: a converter needs its full depth on the desktop, and a shallow desk leaves nothing in front of the keyboard tray.

Setting a standing desk converter to the right height

All of these carry a separate keyboard tray below the screen platform, which is the part that makes standing work. Without it the keyboard ends up at screen height and your shoulders take the difference.

Set the screen so the top of the display is level with your eyes and the keyboard so your forearms are level with the floor. Those are two different heights, which is exactly why the tray is separate. Start with an hour or two of standing a day rather than a full day, since standing badly for eight hours is not an improvement on sitting badly for eight.

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