Forget sitting at your desk: Are you ready to lie down and work?

If you’ve ever worked from home, you’ll know that you might start the day sitting at your desk, then move to a standing position at some point. You try to avoid the couch and your bed, but you will probably end up in that all too familiar position with your laptop awkwardly above your face.

Well, you are in for a real treat. Altwork has announced its first product, the Altwork Station, a workstation allowing users to sit and stand in all different positions. The Station is apparently built for high-intensity and costs a whopping $5900, which is R80 916!

The workstation is mainly being marketed towards designers, programmers, writers and anyone else who uses their computer as their primary working tool.

This amazing work station offers four modes, all configurable with the buttons on the desk – standing, collaboration, regular and focus. Standing and regular are exactly what you think, while collaboration is simply turning your monitor on the built in arm to work with others. Focus mode is where things get interesting though, as that’s where you can recline the chair to be completely horizontal.

To prevent anything from, you know, falling on your face while you lay down, Altwork equipped the desk with magnets to keep your keyboard, mouse and other peripherals in place.

Sitting at this workstation will make you immediately aware of your body and in turn, you will realise how poorly you sit in normal chairs. Sitting and lying in the Altwork will almost feel like getting a massage on your neck and shoulders, which shows how much tension you carry in that area while you work.

The company’s basic guiding principle is that the way humans sit at a desk and work hasn’t evolved since the introduction of the typewriter in the late 1800s, which doesn’t make sense in 2015. The Altwork Station is basically a workstation for the 21^st century.

Altwork believes that the ability to seamlessly work in different positions will greatly increase efficiency for those computer users who work in so-called high-intensity environments and situations.

So, what about the design of the workstation? The colour scheme of the chair is highly customizable and users can configure presets on the control panel. One of the biggest missions for the company was to fit the chair in the same area as a cubicle, making it fit in open office plans.

The magnets in the desk are a great solution to working in a reclined position, but it could seem rather weird to have to hold the mouse up against the surface, rather than it not wanting to fall. The only other issue is that it could be somewhat difficult to get the desk to move smoothly, but this probably won’t be much of an issue once you’re used to the desk.

It’s hard to imagine rows and rows of these in large offices, but for smaller offices or for those who work from home, these work stations make perfect sense. However, the Altwork Station won’t appeal to everyone, but for some it will be perfect.

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