Comment by WesolyKubeczek
3 hours ago
If you use such a thing on a regular kind of meeting that happens over zoom or similar, your arm will atrophy and fall off from having to hold that thing for the duration.
The only remedy I see is to give everyone such a contraption and make it mandatory.
Back in the day when phones of this style were the only ones available we learned to hold the handset between our shoulder and our ear, leaving both hands free for other things.
That was one of the things they considered when they designed phones. A lot of money was spent on ergonomics getting this "right". Of course we now know a lot more about ergonomics today, but they did the best they could and did a great job considering.
Cue neck pain
There were countless products available when I was a kid that were meant to make holding a handset between your ear and shoulder comfortable.
These young people don't know what the nineties were like.
https://www.etsy.com/listing/631698424/vintage-rest-a-phone-...
They make those shoulder-rest addons for phone handsets. Not too bad to use for extended periods with one of those, with both hands free.
This would be an excellent way to make sure the standup stays terse, we could even put lead weights in the handsets to further increase this virtue.
NB: Many of these older phones already came with metal weights insides to give a feeling of more substance to them. Not always in the handset, though it wouldn’t surprise me if some did have them.