Editorial Policy

Sourcing

Every product specification carries a link to the maker's own page. Height ranges, weight capacities, warranty terms, belt dimensions and lift ranges all come from the manufacturer's published material — never from a retailer listing, never from another review site, and never from memory. This is enforced in code: the function that defines a product throws a build error if a specification has no source URL.

Health claims come from named institutions and published research. The two we lean on most are UT Southwestern Medical Center and a 2018 Cochrane systematic review, and we cite the Cochrane finding that the evidence is low quality as prominently as the encouraging findings.

Tax and benefits mechanics come from IRS material. Publications 502 and 969, cited on the page that uses them.

Every figure we print is a figure a maker publishes. Where a manufacturer leaves one out — LifeSpan's belt dimension for the TR1000, Vari's full dimensions for its File Cabinet — the page tells you it is unpublished and weighs that in the score, so you always know the ground a recommendation stands on.

How picks are chosen

Every pick is chosen from the manufacturer's specifications, manuals, warranty terms and published ergonomic standards, then scored against the rubric on How We Pick.

Independence

Deskstance earns affiliate commission on purchases made through its links. The disclosure is here and appears above the first affiliate link on every commercial page, not only in the footer.

Rankings are set on the published specifications alone. Placement is never for sale, brands see a page for the first time when readers do, commission rates play no part in picks or ordering, and the site routinely points readers to the cheaper answer — a value desk over a premium one, a converter over a desk, or a tape measure before any purchase at all. Everything published here is written in-house by the named author, which is why sponsored articles, paid link insertions, guest posts and products offered on condition of coverage are all turned away.

Corrections

When we get something wrong, we correct it on the page where it appeared and note what changed. We do not quietly edit and move on, and we do not bury corrections on a separate page. Specifications change, products get discontinued, and warranty terms are revised — tell us and we will fix it.

Every page carries a visible last-updated date. When a product's specification changes materially, that date changes with it.

AI and how these pages are made

Research, drafting and the site build all use AI tooling, under human direction and review, and it is worth stating plainly. The sourcing rule holds either way: every specification is fetched from the manufacturer's page and carries a link you can check, and the build fails if that link is missing.