Message From The Founder
Hey there,
My names Josh, the CEO and founder of eX-Tables. First off, I just want to say thank you for checking out our business page. It truly means alot to me and the rest of the team for you to be here. I also wanted to give you a little backstory about eX-Tables, and what motivated me to create it.
When the COVID pandemic hit in early 2020, I, like most people, had to make the switch to working from home. I was working as a full time mechanical engineer in 2019 for a large consulting company. The same company I had been at since mid-2013. I really liked working there. In my mind I always knew it was a great company that offered fascinating work, surrounded by great people. But one thing I never really paid any attention to while I was there were the ergonomic benefits of working for a large company in a modern office space. Every office chair on our floor was adjustable in exactly 17 different ways. Our computer monitors could rotate on every axis, and move in any direction. With one phone call you could outfit your desk with a $200 keyboard tray, or a $1,000 stand-up desk extension if you so desired. And best of all the on-staff ergonomic consultant specialist was only ever one call away. And when that ergonomic consultant paid a visit to your office you truly started to appreciate all the adjustability of the equipment around you.
For example, I can still remember the first time I had the ergonomic specialist pay a visit to my office. They first asked me to sit down in my chair as I pretended to work. They then proceeded to stand about 4 feet back, circling me to examine my hand position, elbow position, back position, neck position and feet position while I worked. Then after about 45 seconds they let me know of specific posture tips I should try to incorporate, such as keeping my feet flat to the floor, shoulders back, and neck up in a natural position. And then with a few twist of the knobs on the back of my chair they straightened the back rest. And with a pull of the monitor screens they raised them about 4 inches higher than they previously were, forcing me to keep my head straighter to see the top of my screens.
I have to be honest, at first I hated the changes and 'ergonomic advice' offered to me by the on-staff health consultant. I thought it was a waste of time, and that my posture was fine. So for the early part of my work career at the company I largely ignored their advice and simply spent my day staring down at my computer screens while I slouched in my improperly aligned office chair. It wasn't until about 2017 that I started to feel the consequences.
It started with slight pain in my neck and back after I would finish my 8 hour work day. Then it progressed to pain in the morning after I would wake up and roll out of bed. Then it progressed further into intermittent pain throughout the day whenever I overextended my arms or shoulders. But the real tipping point for me was when I agitated my shoulder playing a pick-up game of hockey, that actually caused by shoulder to completely freeze and become immobile for about 6 months. There is a technical medical term for what happened to me called 'frozen shoulder', something that is typically found in elderly women, not 30-something year old adults. To this day I am 100% confident that the slow degradation of my neck, back and shoulder health, and eventual torture of having a frozen shoulder for 6 months was caused by my overall ignorance towards proper workspace ergonomics.
Which is why when the COVID pandemic hit in 2020 and I was forced to start working from home, I searched far and wide for solutions to improve my home office workspace. Gone were the $1,000 stand-up desks, $1,500 office chairs, and $800 adjustable computer monitors. I was left with a laptop and a regular old staples office chair that could just go up and down. So I researched for solutions.
I knew I wasn't interested in spending over $2,000 to replicate my office workspace. After all, who knows long COVID would last and when we would all return to the office. So instead I set out to find a cheap ergonomic solution to working from home on a laptop. And coming from an engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain logistics background I knew exactly how to find it. I immediately started searching for manufacturers of low cost adjustable laptop tables, with the emphasis on adjustability, compact storage, and light weight shipping to keep the cost down. My home started filling up with samples of adjustable tables from at least 7 different manufacturing plants, as I slowly began to weed out the losers and hone in on my winning laptop table.
After about 2 months of researching and spending a small fortune on manufacturing samples, I had the table I wanted. It was also around this time that I had a clear vision and mission that I wanted to share my work and new table with the world. So eX-Tables was born. I started the business just 2 months after the COVID-19 crisis started to surface, and the response coming out of the gate has been truly remarkable. I have worked with and served people just like me. People searching for at-home, affordable ergonomic solutions that will improve their home office workspace and help eliminate their neck and back pain while they work. People not interested in spending $1,000+ on a new stand-up desk for what may be a temporary work from home arrangement. People that understand and place a high value on the health of their neck and back, and are willing to put in the investment to keep themselves healthy while they work.
The response to the eX-Tables brand has been so amazing that I am happy to say that running eX-Tables and serving my customers is now my full-time job. And I am loving every minute of it.
Below you will find even more information about the table we offer, which we call the eX-Table. So if you are interested in improving your home office ergonomics I strongly encourage you to take a read through all the benefits of this table! And if you have any questions, feedback, or any recommendations for how we can improve please do not hesitate to reach out to our amazing customer service team at customerservice@ex-tables.com.
I want to thank you once again for visiting this page and checking out our brand, and I truly hope the eX-Table can help you eliminate your neck and back pain while we all strive to work from home.
Best Regards,
Josh
Founder & CEO of eX-Tables