We place a huge amount of importance and focus on Wellness and Wellbeing in the workplace. Not just from a physical sense but across all infrastructures that support a well workplace, social, career and corporate responsibility.
We’ve looked from the inside out to ensure we’re creating well buildings that house well humans and how furniture design supports a well organisation and underpins a thriving culture. We’ve explored the value of biophilia, our relationship with nature and how we can bring that into our work space. Not just plants but good air quality and natural light.
The push for Wellness is a movement that’s here to stay and we feel a great responsibility to make it accessible to everyone. One of the biggest factors we can see that’s influencing our overall wellness is movement, or lack of.
You’re probably familiar with the trope “sitting is the new smoking”. Everything is the new smoking if you do it too long and in positions that are not ergonomic. Sitting, standing, using devices, staring, emailing, collaborating, sleep deprivation, drinking and even smoking are the new smoking.
It’s not news that physical inactivity can have serious implications on our health, especially in the area of preventable early death. It’s been proven to amplify our risk of heart disease, obesity, diabetes and some cancers.
In a deskbound work environment, we can spend in excess of 8 hours per day at our desk in a chair, stooped over a workstation and computer. It’s actually possible that a desk workers muscles are inactive for about 70% of the day and exercise alone is not sufficient to combat the duration of time our muscles spend in a state of inactivity.
Movement needs to feature as the headline act on your ‘To Do List’, without it feeling like it’s impeding your ability to be productive.
It’s as simple as forming new habits that get fresh blood flowing to all your vital organs and get you doing more work away from you desk. If you’re stuck for ideas around how to implement some changes to your day, try some of these on for size:
Whatever it is you decide to do, make sure it’s meaningful and you enjoy it, it’s possible that your life kind of depends on it.
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