For most of us, setting up a home-office desk goes just as far as optimizing seating posture for comfort, tucking cables out of sight, and ensuring the slab in front stays clutter-free to minimize distraction. I’m all too familiar with the complacency that creeps in with such a setup, having used one for half a decade now. However, I just picked up an Ikea Bekant sit-stand desk and quickly realized that standard rules for ergonomic optimization go right out the window. On a regular desk, you set it and forget it because cables hang in a static loop and the monitor stays at eye level, but in a sit-stand setup, the entire workstation must be optimized for a range of motion. That fundamentally changes how I must connect peripherals and ensure cable tension is minimal when I hit that up b***on.