Your physical and mental health will improve, all while you’re e-mailing, calling, reading or delegating. Have you ever thought of how many hours a day you spend sitting? During breakfast, during your commute from/to work, during dinner, driving, watching TV,… Research has shown that 10 to 12 hours of sitting is not an exception. You should know that our body was never developed to sit around all
day. Our ancesters were constantly moving and only rested when they were tired. Research has shown that certain metabolic functions are stopped when we’re sitting. Scientists are even starting to compare sitting to smoking. Studies have described how our life expectancy shortens by sitting on a chair too much. Who uses the Walkdesk and how? There’s a growing interest in the Walkdesk from the corporate world. On one side, corporate leaders want the product for themselves, because their schedule is too busy to make time for enough exercise, but they also want to invest in their employee health by setting up Walkdesks on the workfloor. Even people who work at home and sit all day are using a Walkdesk more and more. On our website you can read more about this. Remarkable is the study that shows that a walking treadmill desk doesn’t make people less productive.
