UPLIFT Desk is dedicated to offering the highest quality ergonomic office furniture at direct to consumer prices. Our goal is to help everyone work better and live healthier.
Founder, CEO, Mechanical Engineer, and Certified Professional Ergonomist Jon Paulsen has always had a passion for ergonomic office furniture that promotes comfort and productivity.
Customer service is at the heart of all the company decisions as we focus on designing world-class standing desks, chairs, and other office furniture. A background in mechanical engineering guides the design, quality, and manufacturing processes for our entire product portfolio.
Whether shopping for a single standing desk or outfitting a large office, over a million customers have discovered the world class customer service, unmatched product designs, direct to consumer pricing, same day shipping, and 15-year warranty offered by UPLIFT Desk. We cut out the middleman to serve you better.
Jon studied mechanical engineering, received a Bachelor of Science Degree from the University of Utah in 1993, and began working as an engineer. In 1996, he received his Master of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering with a specialization in ergonomics. Jon holds certificate #1129 from the Board of Certification in Professional Ergonomics (BCPE) and is a member of the Institute for Industrial Engineers and the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.
As a mechanical engineer and ergonomic engineer for various companies from 1993 to 2002, Jon optimized office, assembly line, warehouse, and refinery ergonomics while reducing ergonomic injury risk. In 1997, Jon joined Applied Materials as the managing ergonomic engineer, directing a team of mechanical and industrial engineers while optimizing their offices, cleanroom manufacturing, and warehousing operations. He also helped design Applied Materials products to be more ergonomic to assemble.
In 2002, when Jon couldn't find a best in class standing desk for a reasonable price, he set out to design, manufacture, and bring the benefits of standing desks to more people.
Today, over 20 years and a million customers later, UPLIFT Desk provides the best office furniture to the world by focusing on quality product designs, customer satisfaction, and value pricing. The UPLIFT V2 Standing Desk has been tested by many of the world's top reviewers, repeatedly earning the title of Best Standing Desk, including by the New York Times' Wirecutter five years in a row (2019-2024 review periods).
The UPLIFT Desk product line has since grown beyond height-adjustable desks to offer standing desk converters, office chairs, acoustics, accessories, and even free office design services. With over a million customers working happier and healthier around the globe, UPLIFT Desk is proud to be dedicated to delivering unparalleled customer service as reflected in our Google reviews.
The Board of Certification in Professional Ergonomics (BCPE) states, "Our Board Certified Professionals combine education and experience with knowledge of human capabilities, needs, and limitations to optimize design for people. Wherever people interact with products, tasks, jobs, organizations or environments, Human Factors, Ergonomics, and User Experience Professionals (HF/E/UX) can help ensure that the system is optimized for human performance, wellbeing, and compatibility. BCPE is a non-profit organization and is recognized internationally as the gold standard of Human Factors, Ergonomics, and User Experience certification."
CPEs often work to maximize productivity and comfort while reducing injury. By concentrating on optimizing human postures while reducing the forces, frequencies, and durations required while doing a task, CPE's apply science to the overall system performance of products and processes.
Becoming a CPE is a rigorous process and combines three different areas of focus: education, experience, and examination. Becoming certified includes first earning a bachelor's degree in a specialized field of study: life sciences, engineering sciences, or behavioral sciences. After graduation, an applicant must work full-time in the field for three years, applying the tenets of ergonomics to real work environments while earning additional academic credits. Finally, before becoming certified, applicants must complete a detailed application that lists work experience and other qualifications, then pass an eight hour comprehensive written exam from the Board of Certification in Professional Ergonomics.
Working in an office with products designed, tested, and approved by a CPE is a direct benefit to you and your business.
What is ergonomics?
We are committed to designing, manufacturing, and shipping world-class standing desks and office furniture. Today, after over 20 years in business, UPLIFT Desk is improving the work lives of over a million customers around the globe.
The adverse effects of a sedentary lifestyle are well documented. Quite simply, our bodies were built to move. Standing at a properly height-adjusted desk intermittently throughout the workday leads to better overall health and increased productivity, focus, and energy. Sitting at an ergonomic height is important, too, and UPLIFT Desk height ranges are designed to accommodate almost everyone, while seated or standing.
In addition to getting you moving more, and sitting less, we offer free shipping, free accessories with every desk, free 30-day returns (including free return shipping), and a 15-year warranty. We directly support and warranty our UPLIFT Desk products to give our customers an uncommonly wonderful customer service experience. Our direct-to-consumer approach provides better value by cutting out the middleman dealers that add costs and can complicate and delay warranty and customer service needs.
UPLIFT Desk provides free professional space planning services in CET, Revit, Sketchup, and both 2D and 3D design files. We consider everything for the office, from complete ergonomic workstations to space division, acoustics, and privacy. Let us design your conference rooms, lounge areas, training facilities, and break rooms too.
We serve almost every S&P 500 company and have helped create healthy work environments at places like Google, Apple, Microsoft, JP Morgan Chase, Chevron, and Exxon (to name a few). We go the extra mile by designing our products to ANSI/BIFMA standards. We're also a U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) contract holder, providing industry-leading ergonomic furniture and accessories to federal, state, and local government agencies and organizations.
If you're ever in Austin or Chicago, please stop by our UPLIFT Desk retail stores and say hello.
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