Standing Desks & Treadmill Desks

By far the most populous category of sit-to-stand products, electric standing desks are powered by precision, linear motor drives and easily change in height with the press of a button. They have a distinct advantage over most manually-operated desks in speed, convenience, and performance, but tend to cost a little more than their crank-operated cousins. Nevertheless, with dozens to choose from spanning a wide range of capabilities, feature sets, and price tags, it remains the active workstation of choice for homes and offices across the country.

The UpLift is very popular, if for no other reason than Human Solution's massive advertising campaigns. Sleekly marketed and with low entry-point pricing on all-Chinese componentry, they sell a lot of UpLift desks. But the componentry is unspectacular, marketing claims are overwrought, and the warranty doesn't include the desktops. Once components are upgraded to better than bottom-end options the pricing is not nearly as competitive as it first seems.

Ergoprise’s Uprise Standing Desk is a solid, mid-tier desk that stands at the crossroads of function and affordability. A quiet, sturdy base and a variety of table tops - including premium bamboo and hardwood - make this an attractive option for both standing-desk and treadmill-desk users.

How to upgrade a traditional L-Desk to an L-Shaped Sit-to-Stand Workstation

As popular as standing desks have become—and as many companies as there are producing them these days—so-called “Standing L-Desks” or “L-Shaped Standing Desks” have been the red-headed step child of the active workstation category. Until recently.

While there aren’t a plethora of L-shaped standing desk options compared to their rectangular brethren, there are now enough offerings in the market to ensure that regardless of your space requirements, budget or existing décor, there’s an electric L-desk out there that will likely suit your needs. And if not, there’s always the DIY route, and we’ll cover [...]

One of the few standing desk manufacturers to offer an L-desk version is TheHumanSolution, which makes three versions under their UpLift Desk brand. We’ve reviewed these three versions below as part of our comprehensive round-up of L-Shaped Standing Desk Reviews.

All three of these L-shaped desks are built on the same electric base, made in China by Jiecang. You can read our separate Jiecang base lab review to learn more about the performance of this all-important component of any sit-stand desk. We encourage the reader to choose the base first when shopping for any standing desk since their reliability, performance and value are all key buying considerations.

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We’ve reviewed all of the UpLift desks from The Human Solution, including their popular two-legged, rectangular-topped UpLift desk and all three of their three-legged, L-shaped desks. This particular variant, though, technically falls into the category of a corner desk (as opposed to an L-desk) because the desktop consists of a single piece of lumber, not two. (Read our primer to learn more about the differences between corner standing desks and L-shaped standing desks.)

The desktop shape on this “Curved Corner L-desk,” as UpLiftDesk.com refers to it, is more commonly known in office furniture lingo as a “pork chop” style. At least in terms of [...]