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Gazette

Office furniture, minus the homework. Buying guides, honest product talk, and notes from behind the scenes at Deskwell, written by the people who actually do the job. Some of it will save you a bad purchase. Some of it is Ben talking about the website again.

Height Settings and Memory Presets: Getting the Most From an Electric Desk

You bought the sit stand desk. Now find your two heights, store them as presets, and build the sit-stand rhythm that survives past the first fortnight.

Ben16 October 2026

Sitting All Day? Your Chair Setup Checklist

Height, depth, tilt, arms, lumbar. Sarah's five adjustment office chair setup, in the order that works, with the reason behind each step.

Sarah7 October 2026

The Posture Reset: Five Desk Habits Worth Breaking

Perching, craning, hunching, dangling and the phone-shoulder pinch: five habits your body files complaints about, and the furniture change that fixes each one.

Sarah23 September 2026

Lumbar Support: What It Is, Why It Matters, How to Spot the Real Thing

The curve in your lower back, the pad that should meet it, and the difference between adjustable lumbar support and a bump of foam with ambitions.

Sarah10 September 2026

Ergonomic Chairs vs Task Chairs: Where the Money Goes

What the ergonomic badge should mean before a chair earns the extra money, and where a plain task chair does the same job for a third of the price.

Marcus1 September 2026

Standing Desk Myths: What the Research Actually Says

Standing all day was never the goal. An honest look at the calorie claims, the smoking comparison, and why the height you sit at matters less than how often you change it.

Ben28 August 2026

Monitor Arms: Reclaim Your Desk, Spare Your Neck

The cheapest ergonomic upgrade in the building is not the chair. It is the thing holding your screen, and most of us are still using the stand it came with.

Ben21 August 2026

Ergonomics 101: Set Your Desk Height Before Your Chair

Elbows first, then the desk, then the chair, then your feet, and the screen last. A ten minute routine that needs no gadgets and usually no new furniture.

Sarah12 August 2026

Sit Stand Desks: The Hype, the Health, and the Honest Bit in the Middle

What standing desks actually do for you, what they definitely do not, and the four hardware details that decide whether you keep using one.

Ben24 July 2026

The Task Chair Test: What to Look For Before You Buy

Five checks that separate a task chair people are still happy in after three years from one that quietly gets swapped for the spare out of the meeting room.

Marcus23 July 2026