Every desk in my work office is a standing desk. A handful of people use them, the rest don’t. And personally I believe that’s enough to justify buying them all.

So even if youre right that a majority are unused, I disagree with the implication that they are a waste.

I use mine with utmost regularity: once every 6 months

I don’t use a standing desk.
Personally I’m waiting for someone to come up with the laying desk. I want to be fully reclining, with a couple of monitors suspended above my head, and the two halves of my split keyboard on little tables under my hands

I have one at home but I don’t stand at it much, just for a few minutes here and there. But it’s still useful that it moves. Its good to have it at the exact right height and raising it makes moving cables easier. I plugged in a new USB dock on my static desk at work the other day. It was a pain in the arse, the hole of which I almost exposed to the whole office when I got up off the floor.

I have a standing desk. I use it all the time. Reading about all these people who just sit down while they work on stuff feels weird, like, how do you get anything done? I don’t even have a chair, it would be pointless. If I want to sit, I just go to the couch.

This is a spot on showerthought!

My joint has a standing desk, but it is positioned so my back is to my door and it is under the glaring over head lights.

So I set up on a desk that allows me to see my door and to offer some cover from the overhead lights.

Yup, I’m here to agree. Got one at home and work, only used it about twice in a day for all of 5 minutes

I use mine every day in sit-mode.

I might be in the minority but I love my standing desks. I’ll sit once in awhile but I’d guess that 90% of my day is standing.

And to those who think standing is just being in one position all day and therefore is just as bad as sitting, I completely disagree. In practice I’m constantly shifting around, moving one leg back or forward, or walking in circles when I’m talking during a meeting and don’t need to look at my screens. Sometimes I’ll bring a chair over and put one knee on the seat for a few minutes to stretch my quads and hip flexors. It also helps if you get a soft pad to stand on or shoes designed for being on your feet all day.

My desks even go really low, which I squat at for about an hour a day. Full heels on the ground squat, keyboard and screens low enough to work without cranking my neck.

I’ve been working behind a desk for 25 years, and next to a true ergonomic keyboard I think my standing desks have done the most to keep my body from breaking down.

I switch position more now that I’m at home. I’ll more likely stand when I’m tired, as they taught us in the army.

Some standing desks have an interface that can be used to setup diverse automations. For I example I made it automatically rise when it detects that it was on seating position for more than 40 minutes.

We have them where I work. I’ve used the standing function, oh, maybe 2-3 times. Is that enough to count?

I use different heights depending what I’m working on. I never stand at the thing, but setting it high to do detailed electronics work, setting it low to comfortably use music electronics on, or setting it just high enough to wheel my full 88-key weighted keyboard under but still use my computer makes it absolutely worth it.

I work in an office full of engineers, and all of these freaks use them standing all the time.

I mostly agree with you, though. I been a lot of places where they all stay at the same height.

I got one then, the week after it arrived, I broke my ankle. It hasn’t really properly healed in three years so, while I’ve tried, I can’t really stand long enough for the desk to be useful in standing configuration.

I have two. One, in my office where I work. It rarely, if ever, moves. Mostly it lifts for cleaning.

The other is in the living room. It is always on max height because I have small kids so it stays on ‘out of reach mode’ any time I am not in my chair.

Out of reach mode has paid for itself many times over compared to whatever I get out of standing.