Walk through the calls
The Office Walker runs at 33 to 45 dB with no motor to hum, so video calls, reading and email all happen while you walk. The parts of your day that keep you in the chair are the parts you can burn calories, quietly enough that nobody on the call knows.
See how much calories you burn in a day
Set your weight, the hours you would walk, and a gentle pace. These are honest estimates and the assumptions are shown underneath.
Working from home took that last bit of daily movement from us
The commute, the coffee run, the walk to a meeting room, the trip to somebody else's desk. None of it felt like exercise, and all of it disappeared the day we started working from home. For most of us that is thousands of steps a day, gone.
office walker puts them back under the desk, with no gym subscription and no workouts to schedule. You walk while you work, which is the only version most people actually keep doing.
Quiet is a work requirement, not a nice extra.
There is no motor in it, so there is nothing to hum. A full day of calls happens over it without anyone noticing, and the belt follows your feet, so you stop the instant a call needs all of you.
A full day of calls, and nobody hears the walk.
There is no motor in it, so there is nothing to hum. Your footsteps are quiet enough that the person on the other end will not know.
Is a walking pad any good for working from home?
Yes, and for a specific reason: it puts back the steps the office used to give you for free. The walk to the station, the coffee run, the trip to a meeting room, the loop to a colleague's desk. None of it felt like exercise and all of it vanished at once.
Putting a quiet pad under the desk is the simplest way to get them back, without a gym, a schedule, or a minute added to your calendar. You get your 10,000 steps during the calls and the reading, burn through your calories with no extra efforts.
A full day of calls, walked off your step count.
What is the difference between a manual and a motorised walking pad?
The belt. On a motorized one it is driven for you and you pick a speed. On a manual one it moves because your feet move it, so there is nothing to buzz through a microphone and nothing inside to burn out.
The category has a name that does not quite fit us either. You search for under desk treadmill, or walking pad, or treadmill desk, and you get rows of motorized plastic machines. If you are comparing, the two things that decide how it goes at home are noise and how long it lasts, not top speed. using long term the noise could be a big issue.
Working from home, answered
No. It runs at 33 to 45 dB and there is no motor hum for a microphone to pick up. The person on the other end hears you, not the walk.
A treadmill desk usually means a desk and a motorised belt sold together. This is the pad on its own, the manual kind, sized to slide under the standing desk you already have.
Yes. It weighs 25 kg, rolls on front wheels, and stands upright against a wall. Most people leave it out though.
There is no daily limit and nothing in it to overheat. One of our backers walks the whole working day and only stops for the moments that need full concentration.
I usually walk the whole day while working, and only stop if I need that extreme concentration moment.
A backer, on the Office Walker Discord
Where next. Focus and productivity, working from home, busy parents, gaming.
Get your name down for one.
Backers get theirs first. After that the waitlist orders, below the price the store will charge once it opens to everyone. Tens of thousands of people are already on it, so it is worth putting your name down now.