Height-adjustable desks are getting very popular as people become concerned about the health risks of sitting all day. Many of these desks are just flat surfaces with legs and an adjustment mechanism—you often see photos of the desks looking quite bare, with just a computer on them. But as a professional organizer, I usually work with people who are not such minimalists; they have cords to deal (because not all equipment is wireless) with along with pens, pencils and such.

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Some sit/stand desks do come with tools to help keep things organized. NextDesk has an optional under-the-desk vanity cover, where cables are fed through the grommets into a raceway to keep them hidden from view. (The user can choose to have up to three grommets.) This design will look especially nice for users who place their desks looking out at the room, rather than facing the wall.

There's also an optional power management system that can be mounted to the bottom of the work surface, with 12 surge-protected outlets.

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Fully takes a different tack with its private label Jarvis desk. The purchaser can get up to three wire management grommets, but there's no company-specific cable tray.

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Instead, Fully offers the NeatLinks cable management system from Humanscale as an option when the desk is purchased. It's not as elegant looking as the NextDesk, but it still does the job of controlling the cables. For consumers who aren't going to want to research all the possible cable management systems themselves, this offering will be welcome. 

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The Jarvis desk also has an optional swivel pencil tray, which allows the worker to keep a few critical supplies close at hand, without cluttering up the desktop (or tempting kids and cats to knock things off). However, if the worker needs a keyboard tray for ergonomic reasons, a tray like this (or a drawer) might get in the way, depending on where it was positioned and the size of all the components.

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Anthro forgoes grommets on its Elevate II desk, but includes a cable tray as part of the basic package. Some users will be perfectly satisfied with this simpler design. 

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The Holmris U Desk has an integrated drawer, providing more storage than than a simple pencil tray. With no dividers built in, the space is more flexible than the Jarvis pencil tray—but small things may be harder to find.

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Most workers at sit/stand desks who want a lot of storage at their fingertips will get a separate pedestal storage unit to go under or beside the desk. But Bold Furniture provides another option: a double-pedestal height-adjustable desk, designed by Joey Ruiter. Each side can have one, two or four drawers. The desktop, base, drawers and modesty panel all have a range of color options. 

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Another way to provide storage for those working at sit/stand desks is to use wall panels with organizing modules, as Lista Office does. However, since the worker would need to reach across the desk to get to these panels, which might be awkward (especially if there was a computer in the way), this seems like a less desirable option than simply providing drawers. However, it does provide visible storage for those who work best when things are out in the open.

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The UpWrite desk is a bit of an outlier here, since it doesn't provide cable control or other storage. But it does provide a whiteboard, which many people find useful for anything from reminders and to-do lists to brainstorming notes.