One of the things we learned during David Rubenstein’s interview of Tim Cook, posted in full yesterday, was that all employees at Apple Park are getting standing desks.
The desks allow employees to switch between sitting and standing.
As Business Insider notes, Cook has previously described sitting as ‘the new cancer.’ He made the comment back in 2015 when talking about the stand reminders on the Apple Watch.
No details have yet been shared on which desks have been chosen, but we have seen them in interior photos of the campus. They have minimalist up/down controls, and my guess is that they were custom-made for Apple.
To accompany the desks, Apple opted for Vitra chairs rather than the Aeron ones chosen by most large organizations, in part because the company didn’t want staff getting too comfortable sitting for long periods of time.
@businessinsider “Apple reveals top secret detail: Apple Park has custom standing desks, images of which have yet to be seen.”@WIRED and @dezeen: “We photographed two variants of these desks a year ago, including close-ups of the buttons underneath that control them.”🙃 pic.twitter.com/jR3BsAaX72
— ㅤ (@domneill) June 14, 2018
We reviewed the chair and were impressed. We’ve also tried out a few standing desks, from FluidStance, UpDesk and UpLift.
