Electrically height-adjustable table, comprising: - an electrically height-adjustable subframe, - a tabletop, which is arranged on or on top of the subframe, - a drive device for adjusting the height of the subframe /the tabletop, wherein the drive device is fixed to the subframe and to the tabletop and comprises at least one electric motor, a control device and an operating device for operating the control device, and - a sensor device for detecting an initial absolute inclination of the tabletop upon receiving an input of a movement command via the operating device and a subsequent absolute inclination and a subsequent change in inclination of the tabletop over time during the movement of the tabletop upwards or downwards in accordance with the movement command, wherein the sensor device comprises a 3-axis acceleration sensor for determining the absolute inclination of the tabletop and a 3-axis gyroscope, preferably integral therewith, for determining the change in inclination of the tabletop over time, preferably wherein the acceleration sensor and the gyroscope are accommodated in a microelectronic-mechanical-system (MEMS) component, wherein the sensor device further comprises a computing device, in particular a microprocessor, which, for the determination of the initial absolute inclination of the tabletop each time before executing an input movement command, is configured to arrange for an initial detection of acceleration components by the acceleration sensor in a three-dimensional Cartesian coordinate system oriented on the basis of the installation orientation of the acceleration sensor and a comparison of the detected acceleration components with known acceleration components under the same conditions in a global three-dimensional Cartesian coordinate system, wherein the z-axis thereof is oriented in the direction of gravity, and to arrange for any offset correction of the detected acceleration components and any inversion of the acceleration components in the z direction and a conversion of the detected and possibly offset-corrected and/or possibly inverted acceleration components into an angle or vector of inclination and, for the corresponding determination of an absolute inclination of the tabletop by means of a detection of acceleration components by the acceleration sensor, and for the determination of a change in inclination of the tabletop over time or of a variable representative of the change in inclination of the tabletop over time during the subsequent execution of the movement command by means of a detection of angular velocity components by the gyroscope, to arrange for any inversion of the angular velocity components and a summation of the angular velocity components and a comparison of the determined sum of the angular velocity components with a previously defined angular velocity limiting value. - an electrically height-adjustable subframe, - a tabletop, which is arranged on or on top of the subframe, - a drive device for adjusting the height of the subframe /the tabletop, wherein the drive device is fixed to the subframe and to the tabletop and comprises at least one electric motor, a control device and an operating device for operating the control device, and - a sensor device for detecting an initial absolute inclination of the tabletop upon receiving an input of a movement command via the operating device and a subsequent absolute inclination and a subsequent change in inclination of the tabletop over time during the movement of the tabletop upwards or downwards in accordance with the movement command, wherein the sensor device comprises a 3-axis acceleration sensor for determining the absolute inclination of the tabletop and a 3-axis gyroscope, preferably integral therewith, for determining the change in inclination of the tabletop over time, preferably wherein the acceleration sensor and the gyroscope are accommodated in a microelectronic-mechanical-system (MEMS) component,