Sedentary desk jobs can make it difficult to remain active and prioritize your health. You will have to be mindful of your daily activities if you want to stay healthy.
Consider these six different ways to promote more activity throughout your day, even while working at a desk job.
1. Limit Sitting Time
It might sound obvious, but limiting the amount of time you spend sitting can have a major impact on your overall health. Experts recommend that workers only sit for 20 minutes at a time, taking two-minute breaks to stretch every hour.…
Healthy workers tend to be happy workers with studies showing that those employees who take advantage of health programs offered in the workplace are far more likely to be satisfied and engaged with their jobs. If you want to improve the health of your team, you need not invest in a gymnasium in the basement of your building.
There are many low-cost options you can use to boost the health of your team and in doing so, boost the effectiveness of your enterprise.…
Offices aren’t the healthiest environments. There’s the HVAC that circulate any viruses, molds or bacteria in the air – so that the cold someone brings in on Monday makes its rounds to everyone in the office by Wednesday; there’s the overhead lighting that manages to be both harsh and inadequate at the same time; and there are the desks, chairs and workstations that seem to encourage bad posture. Of all the hazards the typical office worker faces, the desk and chair situation could actually be the worst.…
