While I support your out of the box thinking, trading sexual favors for a new desk is verboten in most work places. :)

@JasonJ This is obviously intended as a humours remark, the take-away message here is that procedures to improve working conditions are there, but noone will bring you a new desk on a silver-lined plate if you don't push it a bit.

@easymoden00b: Tell me, what's "terrible" about making sure staff are comfortable and healthy in the workplace?

@LightnessRacesinOrbit: I can't figure out whether easymoden00b is a minarchist who thinks it's terrible that the state takes an interest in working conditions, or a statist who thinks it's terrible that the employer wasn't encouraged to pre-emptively obey the law without the employee needing to take legal action.

@LightnessRacesinOrbit "providing adjustable office furniture is one of the key elements of EU policy". What next, regulating coffee cup size?

@easymoden00b yes sure, if that is deemed necessary. In New York they regulated soda cup size; I guess the USA are terrible?

@ANeves you are correct it is terribly authoritarian that a government, by force of law, regulates the size of a drink that someone can buy or sell.

@easymoden00b: What on earth does coffee cup size have to do with workplace health and comfort? You're being ridiculous. You're also misquoting, deliberately I suspect.

@DmitryGrigoryev It may not have come across in my response, but yes I understand that was intended as humor. As was my response. Darn internet dosent let you see a snarky face.

@LightnessRacesinOrbit: I assumed easymoden00b was disparaging the inability to trade sexual favors for office furniture in the EU. Soon you won't be able to spread false rumors about your co-workers in order to improve your chance for a promotion!

@easymoden00b: You're bordering on the offensive now. The peoples of the EU are not less "free" (nor do such peoples not have it "on the mind") just because their employers are required not to give them debilitating physical disabilities.

@Lightness I will gladly suffer the tyranny of not having the option to suffer from carpal tunnel syndrome every day of the week. From the writing I'd assume easy is still young enough to never had physical troubles. I wasn't too worried about height adjustable desks, fitting chairs and ergonomic keyboards either with 20, it's one of those things you only really appreciate after you've worked for a few years.

@easymoden00b Ok, so take away the law that people are entitled to "reasonable working conditions" - you now have to work in a 5 foot square cubicle without a computer and are paid only €3 per hour, and it's completely legal. How do you feel about this?

@Pharap: Free!! Yippee!! Go Murrica!!

@Pharap you've tackled a strawman of your own construction, congratulations.

@Pharap It sounds like the movie "Brazil". Wait, that was England, not part of EU...

@easymoden00b That comment made absolutely no sense.

@nocomprende Technically Britain is still part of the EU until article 50 is called into effect. And even then it could be up to 2 years after that (or longer if there is unanimous agreement to extend negotiations).