I was just reading the "table or desk" thread and wanted to bring up standing, but it's more than 60 days ripe so I was prompted to start a new thread.
It's been said that "sitting is the new smoking." This comes from correlation rather than causation. Essentially, sitting is associated with sedentary lifestyle and sedentary lifestyle is associated with a truckload of morbidity. There's an avalanche of studies that shows the correlation between sitting and disease. I suspect, however, that just standing still instead of sitting still won't help much. The people that represent the better outcomes in the studies are doing more than not sitting. They're active.
Even so, standing can help overcome the inertia of sitting. If I'm already standing, it's easy to step away and do something else because I don't even have to get up. If I'm already sitting, it's easier to remain sitting.
Standing desks aren't that radical anymore. They've been pretty trendy for about 10 years now. I remember back around the Y2K era there was a lot of stuff going around about repetitive stress disorders and carpal tunnel syndrome. I was pretty young at the time and not too sympathetic. I saw most of it as a bunch of worker's comp and disability fraud, but I remember the army of ergonomic consultants that came up and started prescribing low work surfaces, reams of paper under the monitor stand, expensive chairs and butterfly keyboards. I started WFH about 2013, so I missed the second wave of consultants that came around and told the companies to buy standing desks and the workers to get off their asses. I was just sitting at the kitchen table with my laptop.
My workstation has evolved over the years. I'm not in the kitchen any more. The first thing to go was actually the desk. I realized it served only to hold the monitors and clutter and it didn't even hold the monitors high enough (remember the reams of paper?). So I built a monitor stand and equipment rack instead of a table or desk. The monitors are hung on VESA mounts instead of stands and there's no horizontal surfaces except what support the keyboard and trackball. I use a headset or boom for the mic.
I think this applies to amateur radio. It almost seems like the radios these days are just another computer peripheral. Even without the PC, it can work well to have the operator stand. I use 2m HT, mobile, and base more than anything. My 2m base is a stand-up station in the kitchen. For a shack with an HF rig, whether it's got an array of 30" screens for waterfall, fldigi, Smart SDR, e-logging and qrz, or it's just boat anchor with needles and dials, I would put the equipment in a rack that brings controls and displays up to standing height.
Besides the potential health benefits, I found that getting rid of chairs freed up a lot of floor space. Desk space unused by equipment can also be reclaimed as floor space. I also hauled my couch to the tip. Got a lot of floor space out of that move, but my wife claimed it for her things.