It's prime cold and flu season, which means many of us are at home re-familiarizing ourselves with the workstation known as the sickbed. This has two adjustable positions: seated, with your back ...

You've heard of the stand-up desk and maybe even the treadmill desk. Now there's a "zero-gravity" desk that lets you lay down on the job. Maria Pasquini is a Senior News Editor for PEOPLE, covering ...

Only Slate Plus members can gift Slate stories. Become a member to share 10 free articles a month. “I am a completely horizontal author,” Truman Capote told a Paris Review interviewer in 1957. “I ...

I’m a big fan of standing desks. Although their direct benefits over sitting are somewhat iffy, they encourage you to move around and be just a little more active. And yet, even though I’ve spent most ...

"It looks," I thought when I first saw the Altwork Station, "like a dentist's chair." That might not be your first inclination when shopping for new office furniture, but the team behind the unusual, ...

If you are looking for the ultimate computer workstation to use whilst working on your computer, you might be interested in a new solution called Altwork. The Altwork allows you to use your preferred ...

Most of us sit hunched over at our desks to get work done. Others are convinced that sitting will lead us to our early graves and have switched to standing desks. You can usually find me on my couch ...

Standing desks are all the rage in modern offices these days, thanks in large part to plenty of research that claims sitting all day is detrimental to your long-term health. And you can spend a lot of ...

The Standard and Altwork are showcasing the workstation together at the 2018 DMEC Annual Conference, which will be held Aug. 6-9 in Austin, Texas. The breakthrough design of the Altwork Station offers ...

The Altwork Station can be used when sat down, stood up or laid down Altwork First we sat at our desks, then we were told it was healthier to stand. Now one startup believes we should all be lying ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lying down on the job is generally frowned upon, but could zero gravity be the secret to creating a more comfortable way to work?