Evolvement of office desk
Throughout the development of human civilization, the formation of furniture has a history of thousands of years, and after the industrial revolution and the rapid development of machinery and the Internet, office architecture and office culture began to popularize, which also created unprecedented opportunities for the development of office furniture. From the initial high-density open office, to the popularity of office spacing, to the advocate of healthy, intelligent, comfortable office environment and furniture today, let's review the history of human office furniture.
Medieval Europe
The emergence of the office can be traced back to the Middle Ages in Europe, when monks enjoying a high social status could be regarded as the inventor of the office.
Since only the monks of the church could enjoy it, the office at that time had a high aura, and ordinary people could not enjoy it casually.
Another group that enjoyed the office at the time were notaries, the people who played so many important roles at the time -- prosecutors, tax collectors, lawyers, businessmen, even bankers.
Monks and notaries in Medieval Europe were among the first to enjoy office desks
It is worth mentioning that there was already a prototype of a conference table at that time. Below is a picture of Napoleon in his office and library in Italy in 1799.
Lift-up seats were already available, and in the multipurpose office of William II of Prussia there was an adjustable height seat with saddle cushions.
The industrial revolution
After the industrial revolution, lots of factories developed a lot. How to manage workers and improve their production efficiency became an urgent problem to be solved. Employers set up offices. Employers believed they could increase productivity by keeping employees in their seats for as long as possible.At that time, the typist, is now the prototype of white-collar.Their jobs were simple and routine, with specific rules about how many words to type per hour.
The typist at that time sat at a desk
The 1930s and 1940s
The office revolution begins.Fixed wooden and iron chairs began to go out of fashion;Office chairs become more comfortable and flexible.One of the main goals of these more comfortable chairs is to allow office workers to work more comfortably and for longer periods of time from an office seat.
As technology developing, the furniture industry has seen a series of product innovations and new technologies that allow office workers to work at their desks for longer periods of time.The invention of the walkie-talkie, for example, allows a secretary and a boss to communicate at any time without leaving their seats.
After World War II, ergonomics emerged
After World War II, a new science was born-Ergonomics, which has a profound influence on the health of human office.
As a large number of people who have been sitting in the office for a long time began to feel the physical discomfort caused by sitting for a long time (such as back and shoulder pain, etc.), scientists introduced the new science of ergonomics through the study of human behavior data and cases.This new science has been gradually applied to industrial products. In addition to our common product modeling design, which is more in line with human behavior, ergonomics actually includes the arrangement of button position, the design of explanatory text and other aspects.
To sum up, ergonomics, in essence, is to make the use of tools as suitable as possible to the natural form of the human body, so that the user of tools at work, the body and mind do not need any active adaptation, so as to minimize the use of tools caused by fatigue or physical injury. For example, the ergonomic design of the mouse, mainly is the modeling design of the mouse.And to study this problem, we first need to study the natural structure of human hands.
In 1998, the world's first desk lifting system developed
In the early 90s, European governments enact regulations EF - directive 90/270 / E Ø F, for the first time to write the requirement of working environment into the guidance, require employers to work for long-term needs to be on the screen of the reasonable arrangement of employee health and working environment. Then employees work in front of the screen can be healthy and with reasonable intermittent rest or adjust the body posture, thus reduce work stress and physical damage.
At the time, there were no electric desk-lifting solutions on the market. A small number of people are trying to use the pneumatic way to adjust the height of the lifting table, but at that time, the weakness of the aerodynamic scheme is also very obvious: the movement was not smooth, desk height is uneven, assembly time is long, etc. But soon a enterprise successfully launched the world's first electric lift column system for office lifting desks in 1998. Subsequently, other brand manufacturers in the market have also launched systems for lifting tables and chairs and other furniture.
Since 2000, the dangers of prolonged sitting in the office have been recognized
In the 21st century, with the rapid development of technology and the Internet around the world, the number of people who need to sit in front of a computer in the office is increasing rapidly. At the same time, the number of people who need to sit at a desk for a long time is also increasing.In just 15 years since the start of the millennium, more than 10,000 published scientific articles have been published around the world on the harmful effects of sitting too much.Health experts have come to the conclusion that sitting for long periods of time does more harm to human health than smoking.
There have been numerous reports around the world about the dangers of sitting and the promotion of desk lifts
Adjustable Desk - a global trend in office furniture
The awakening of office health consciousness, the development of economy, and the maturity of technology all have promoted the rapid development of adjustable desk-a new office furniture market. According to statistics, the number of the term "adjustable desk" has increased by more than 100% in the Google and Baidu search indexes over the past five years.
Sunyyo Health Technology Co., Ltd is a company focus on electric & manual adjustable desk since 2015. Also we are a experienced metal-origin manufacturer in this industry, so besides height adjustable desk frame, metal case instrument and adjustable desk related metal accessories are also popular among our clients.
Today, we are working with increasing number of funiture brands around the globe to promote the integration of healthy office into human life.
