FlexiSpot E7 Pro standing desk review

As I’ve talked about in earlier evaluations for this publication, I’ve been a distant employee within the cybersecurity trade since December 2019, working large quantities of time from quite a lot of chairs and flat surfaces of various high quality and generally security (flashbacks to working from a chunk of wooden laid on prime of two submitting cupboards…)

Fortunately, the standard of the workplace setup I’ve been working with has trended upward from these heady days, and I used to be just lately requested to evaluation the Flexispot E7 Professional sit-stand desk. I’ve heard nothing however rave evaluations from associates and colleagues who’ve invested in standing desks over the previous few years, and I used to be excited to see if it made a distinction for me too.

With a work-from-home desk job, a power again damage, and a vested curiosity in issues that make working in entrance of computer systems for lengthy durations extra comfy, I can justifiably say that the FlexiSpot E7 Professional standing desk genuinely did make an actual distinction. Because the identify suggests, it’s the corporate’s premium providing, however lots of its options are additionally accessible in FlexiSpot’s extra primary fashions.

I’m no physician or chiropractor. However I can say that having the ability to detect that you simply’re not comfy mid-shift, hitting a button, and all of the sudden being in a unique place and never making that ache worse – it’s a game-changer. If you happen to’re searching for a standing desk or just becoming out the house workplace you deserve, learn on to search out out whether or not the FlexiSpot E7 Professional is for you.

Specs

I used to be despatched the FlexiSpot E7 Professional desk with a black body and bamboo desktop, plus the clamp energy strip.

Meeting

I realized from expertise with the FlexiSpot C7 Ergonomic workplace chair evaluation that it’d be useful to rope in my spouse for a few of the required stabilization. The desk’s legs, central bar, and tabletop are all very heavy and awkward to place throughout meeting. Whereas one individual may construct this desk alone, bringing one other individual in will velocity issues alongside dramatically.

FlexiSpot all the time does an awesome job with meeting directions, and the booklet with the E7 Professional presents a few of the clearest and easiest-to-follow steps for something I’ve purchased within the final 12 months or so. I don’t suppose we had any “What does it need us to do?” moments throughout the construct course of for the E7 Professional, which has been extra frequent than I’d like with plenty of the furnishings I’ve purchased just lately.

You get every little thing you might want to construct the desk inside the field, but it surely’s value bringing alongside your crosshead screwdriver in the event you’ve acquired a second helper constructing with you as it’s going to velocity issues alongside. You additionally get a T-shaped device within the field, with two Allan key ends on the prime and a cross-head screwdriver on the longer deal with.

One factor I did discover that’s value mentioning is that the pre-drilled pilot holes on the tabletop are very small and infrequently not in precisely the fitting place. That is simply rectified and admittedly, with sufficient utilized pressure I may get the screws to chew the place they wanted anyway – however I did wish to name that out.

When you’ve acquired the heavy items collectively, the desk is easy to complete off. You may have plenty of selections on the place to place the varied equipment (the clamp energy strip, the cable tidy, and so on.) and it’s straightforward to put your gadgets in a way the place no cables are compelled to bend again on themselves. As soon as accomplished, the C7B-Professional appears slightly one thing like this:

Options

The primary characteristic of a sit-stand desk you’re going to be interested by is the top adjustment mechanism, and also you’ll be glad to know that on this regard the E7 Professional delivers.

Everyone seems to be slightly completely different in the case of comfy working situations, and I’ve all the time felt plenty of ergonomic officeware didn’t supply sufficient granular adjustment capability, main you to type of accept an “Eh, adequate” state that type of defeats the purpose investing in ergonomics within the first place.

The E7 Professional’s easy-to-use keypad permits for a powerful degree of small changes to be made, leading to a match that works for you and ensures you aren’t holding your self in a detrimental place for hours at a time. 

The reminiscence operate permits for 4 separate top values to be saved and makes using the chair a breeze if you’re required to share the desk with a second individual. My spouse set herself up for her excellent measurements with the 1 and a pair of buttons, I used the pictorial sit and stand buttons for mine.

My spouse can use the desk all day once I’m not, however the second I want the desk I simply must hit the sit or stand button, and the desk simply adjusts itself to the precise setting I made a decision on earlier!  It’s a dumb factor to be impressed by however delivering on adjustment granularity has additionally been one thing I’ve discovered missing in plenty of earlier purchases. 

I wished to reiterate right here that the E7 Professional does not include a standing desk mat, and while FlexiSpot by no means claimed the E7 Professional did, if you wish to use this as a each day driver work desk for lengthy durations you’ll wish to spend money on one. And not using a standing desk mat, lengthy durations of standing up at any sit-standing desk will lead to your toes shortly aching and changing into painful over time.

The desk prime feels extraordinarily steady even once I lean my whole weight towards it in standing mode. The legs and all different fitments to the desk are all product of strong metallic and never a single a part of the complete setup feels flimsy or frail within the slightest. The E7 Professional shortly seems like part of the workplace that isn’t going away for a very long time and I admire that.

As you possibly can granularly modify the peak of the desk to suit any chair or different obstacles beneath, you shouldn’t have any points becoming this into an present workplace, so long as the desk itself matches from a width and doable most top perspective.

Most significantly, the desk shortly gained the approval of our house’s esteemed judges of flat floor high quality – the cats. The cable administration equipment and performance are fairly self-explanatory, with the desk being constructed across the capability to cover plenty of the cabling required to energy the peak adjustment mechanisms and cables of your personal. 

Design

I drastically appreciated the easy, no-fuss design of this desk and I feel that’s why it matches so shortly and so properly with the remainder of my present house workplace. For me, the clear, rectangular shapes and bamboo tabletop coloration assist the E7 Professional mix in with plenty of my present workplace furnishings.

You possibly can select a tabletop coloration to match your personal workplace throughout the buy course of on the Flexispot web site. The body is available in both white or black, and there are 9 desktop choices at various value ranges, together with bamboo, rubberwood, and a white melamine-style prime.

Construct high quality is a selected excessive level for the E7 Professional. Each half you choose up when constructing the factor feels strong and well-made and the entire desk feels rock-solid and steady if you put it collectively. With a 160kg most load, the desk ought to be capable to take your whole setup – be it for PC gaming, content material creation, or work – with no points and no wobble, modify itself to a top that works for you with minimal effort.

Worth

The FlexiSpot E7 Professional isn’t the most affordable possibility on the market, beginning at round $500 with out a desktop. However I feel it’s completely value shelling out for in order for you one thing that can final the take a look at of time.

Do you have to purchase the FlexiSpot E7 Professional?

If you happen to’ve been interested by shopping for your self a sit-stand desk however weren’t positive if the distinction really made the worth level worthwhile, that is the one to take a shot at. The E7 Professional might be outdoors the worth vary of some, however I feel that that is the most affordable top-tier high quality possibility for an ergonomic sit-stand desk you’re going to search out. I’m assured based mostly on the construct high quality that you simply’ll greater than get your cash’s value.

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