Standing desks aren't exactly a new idea. Leonardo Da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin, authors Ernest Hemingway and Virginia Woolf, and former U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld used them. In regular office settings, however, they were more or less curiosities. Not any longer. Standing -- or stand-up -- desks have been riding a wave of increasing popularity in recent years, especially as studies mount about the cumulative negative impact of sitting for hours every day, year after year. The desks
Jan Swoope is the Lifestyles Editor for The Commercial Dispatch.
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