Five years into hybrid work and most home setups still haven't moved past "wherever the laptop landed during lockdown." We see it constantly in assessments: people who'd never tolerate a bad office chair happily working from the couch, the kitchen bench, or a dining chair for six hours a day, five days a week. Here's what those setups are actually doing, and why the body keeps the receipts. The Couch The single worst common setup, and one of the most popular. Soft, unsupporti

Sit-stand desks have become the default answer to "how do I fix my desk setup." Buy the desk, problem solved. Except in most workplaces we assess, the desk is there, and it's making almost no difference, because it's being used incorrectly or barely used at all. The Actual Case for Standing The argument for sit-stand desks isn't that standing is good and sitting is bad. It's that static posture, held for hours, is the problem, regardless of which position you're static in. St

Sciatica gets blamed on everything, old injuries, "wear and tear," a bad night's sleep. Rarely does anyone point at the chair. But for a huge portion of the office workers we see, the chair, the desk, and eight hours of poor sitting posture are exactly where the problem starts. What Sciatica Actually Is Sciatica isn't a diagnosis in itself, it's a symptom. It a pain that travels along the path of the sciatic nerve, the longest nerve in the body, running from the lower back th