Your shoulders are up around your ears by four in the afternoon. The usual advice is to strengthen something, stretch something, or remember to sit up straight.
Try the other direction first. Shoulders creep up when the desk is too high for the chair, or the armrests are set above elbow height, or the mouse is too far away to reach without lifting. That isn’t a posture failure. It’s your body doing the only sensible thing given where the furniture is, and no amount of remembering will out-argue it for eight hours.
This site is about the furniture. Chair, desk, monitor, keyboard, mouse, laptop, footrest, light — what each one is for, how to tell when yours is wrong, and how to fix it with the objects already in the room. There’s an order to it, starting at the floor, because every adjustment constrains the next one.
No measurements to hit, because your body isn’t the average the numbers were derived from. What you’ll get instead is a check for each object: something you can observe about yourself in thirty seconds that tells you whether the setting is working.
Latest posts
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Chair height starts at the floor
Your chair height isn't set by your legs — it's set by your desk. Why that's backwards, what it does to your shoulders, and the fix that costs nothing.
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Monitor height and distance
Your head goes wherever the screen makes it go. How to find the right height and distance by checking your own eyes rather than measuring anything.
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Where the keyboard and mouse go
Reach is the thing to fix, not wrist angle. Why the number pad pushes your mouse away, and how to find the position that lets your shoulders stay down.
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The laptop is the problem
A laptop puts the screen and the keyboard on the same object, so one of them is always wrong. The fix is separating them, and the cheap version works.
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What a standing desk actually fixes
A sit-stand desk doesn't fix your setup — it gives you a second one to get wrong. What it genuinely solves, and how to set the standing half.