Work standing up

For heath and productivity reasons, I like to work standing up. My employer is rather slow at providing such accommodations, so I using the following setup made from printer paper:

Then, someone raised a concern that in a minor earthquake, the monitor might fall onto my neighbor or out the window and requested I take down my setup. So I did, but then I found a solution to that problem by moving it over a bit on my desk.

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Anonymous said…
working standing up is kinda hard for me, my back starts aching after an hour :(
2/25/2009 5:52 PM
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