People spend a lot of time sitting at work, they don’t take the time to exercise, which includes walking even if it’s just for a moment, not doing it is putting their health at risk.
Research by many experts shows the effects of spending too much time sitting at work and tips on what an employee can do to avoid it, EU-OSHA, the European Union’s agency for occupational safety and health, has recommended that workers who spend up to eight hours sitting at the office take time off and walk at least 9,000 steps a day.
Not only did EU-OSHA carry out the research, but it also involved international health experts including Kees Peereboom, Nicolien de Langen, Alicja Bortkiewicz and Jacqueline Snijders, and it shows.
This study also found that on average, most people spend 7.5 hours out of 24 sitting. As in France, they spend an average of 4 hours and 10 minutes at work.
In 2017, at least 39% of all workers in Europe had jobs that required them to spend a lot of time sitting, using a computer, providing customer service on the phone, and driving,
While it appears that these workers spend 1/3 of their lives sitting, Kees and his colleagues have shown that this activity can have a significant impact on their health, if they do not take protective measures, The effects of this practice include diabetes, obesity, high blood pressure, mental health disorders, cancer and heart disease, which would cause the worker to die prematurely.
Before starting the study, Kees and his colleagues thought that one of the most important measures to prevent these risks is to exercise; specifically taking time to travel instead of taking a break.
Based on the example of more than 70,000 workers in the EU member states with an average age of 61 years, they are equipped with technology that has the ability to count all the steps they take and the time they spend sitting at work.
Kees and his colleagues conducted a survey of healthy people to extract reliable information about changes in their health, based on the numbers captured by the handcuffs.
This study found that those who took between 9,000 and 10,000 steps per day reduced their risk of early death by 39%, and heart disease by 21%.
