Jarvis Monitor Riser Review

[Editors’ Note – April 21, 2023 – MillerKnoll, the $3B parent company of Fully.com, officially shut the company down on April 20th, 2023, after an 18-year run. Indeed, Fully’s phone lines and chat function have already been disabled, and the only way to reach customer service for product support is via email. We first reported this on March 8th after being notified by a number of Fully’s suppliers that the company was discontinuing operations.

Founded by ergonomics industry pioneer David Kahl in 2006, the company – which was originally known as ErgoDepot before a rebranding a few years ago – was acquired by Knoll. Knoll itself was shortly thereafter acquired by Herman Miller. This cataclysmic event is the latest in an ongoing set of challenges the industry has endured since the pandemic.

As a consequence of the company being wound down, we have taken down the scores for all of the Fully products we’ve reviewed to 0.5-star (including the Jarvis Standing Desk, Jarvis Standing L-Desk, Fully Jarvis Reclaimed Wood Standing Desk, Fully Jarvis Albright Standing Desk, Fully Jarvis Evolve Standing Desk, Fully Remi Standing Desk, Fully Jarvis Whiteboard Adjustable-Height Conference Table, Fully Jarvis Bamboo Adjustable-Height Conference Table, Fully Jarvis Tabletops For Standing Desks, Jarvis Monitor Riser, Jarvis Bamboo Desk Drawer, Fully Jarvis Single Monitor Arm, Fully Jarvis Dual Monitor Arm, Fully Jax Single-Display Monitor Arm, Fully Floatdeck Balance Board, Fully Sidekick Mobile File Cabinet, Fully Cable Management Kit and Fully Cable Management Tray). Fully has sadly been added to the Office Fitness Industry Dead Pool.

Ostensibly, Fully’s, “most popular products,” i.e. those that they still have a lot of inventory remaining, are being offered through the Herman Miller and Design Within Reach websites. We checked these listings and they are at full list price, unlikely to be purchased by any savvy shoppers. The nearest alternatives to Fully products are going to be found at iMovR (American-made) and UpLiftDesk (similar Chinese-made products). For more details on the company’s closure, see our article on Is Fully.com Out Of Business?]

Read our roundup of monitor risers to see what a monitor riser is supposed to do, situations where it makes the most sense to go with a monitor riser instead of a monitor arm, and what factors you need to pay attention to when making your monitor riser decision.

Jarvis Monitor Riser

The Jarvis Monitor Riser is a clamp-on riser with an attractive bamboo top. It comes in two sizes, 27″ and 36″. Both sizes are 9.8″ deep with a shelf thickness of 0.8″. They both have a height of 5.75″ and can accommodate desktops up to 1.25″. Both tops have a weight capacity of 60 lbs.

The risers come with a bamboo top and four frame color options, Black, Silver, White and Alloy. If you have a Fully desk, you’ll be able to get an exact match to the frame. If not, you still have enough color options to make something work.

The Jarvis riser uses a clamp-on method for installation. It is the most secure method of installing a monitor riser. You definitely won’t have to worry about this riser falling off your desk like some others. It also conserves some desktop space because it doesn’t have supports that come down to the desktop. This is a big asset, especially if the main reason you’re getting a monitor riser is to reclaim desktop space.

Like the UpLift Desk Monitor Riser that’s also a clamp-on unit, the Jarvis does require some assembly. You first attach the crossbar to the shelf with either four or six screws, depending on which size of shelf you have. Then you attach the clamp columns onto the crossbar with two screws.

This assembly is very minor, but it is more than most other monitor risers.

Finally, there’s the question of cost. The 27″ costs $139 and the 36″ costs $149, which seems slightly overpriced compared to comparable monitor risers like the UpLift riser. Both risers have a 27″ version and similar weight capacities (60 lbs for the Jarvis, 50 lbs for the UpLift), but the Jarvis riser is $40 more. The Jarvis monitor riser is more attractive with its bamboo top and the assembly is slightly easier, so it’s up to the user to decide if that’s worth the extra $40.

The Takeaway

The Jarvis Monitor Riser looks great with its bamboo top. It is clearly designed to complement Fully’s Jarvis Bamboo Standing Desk and the Jarvis Bamboo Desk Drawer, which means you’ve got to be a fan of bamboo in the first place (we have our serious concerns about it’s durability as a desktop material and its environmental footprint).  To pair this monitor shelf with any other standing desk from Fully or any other standing desk maker would be to potentially visually clashy. It might work OK with a solid white or solid black hard-laminate desktop, since white and black pretty much go with anything.

The Jarvis riser comes with a 15-year warranty on the components and a 5-year warranty on the shelf. The 60-lb weight capacity is fine but not extraordinary.

Issues arise when you compare it to other risers in the same price range, like the one from UpLift that’s the same size, has the same weight capacity and is $40 cheaper. You’ll have to decide if the nicer looks of the Jarvis riser are worth the extra money.

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