Tackling the Dangers of Workplace Inactivity

摘要

Agrowing body of evidence suggests that sedentary office workers and other inactive people are at a relatively high risk of dying early. While many employers have introduced wellness programs to encourage workers to exercise and lose weight, few have tried to figure out ways to make office work itself less sedentary. "For most people with indoor office jobs or doing lot of driving, work is really the biggest chunk of sedentary time during the day," says Neville Owen, professor of health behavior at the University of Queensland, Australia.