Contract furnishings provider, Hightower received multiple awards at NeoCon 2021, including IIDA's 'Best Small Showroom' (under 4,000 sf) and 'Best of Competition' for its newly designed Chicago showroom.
Humanscale welcomes Elizabeth Margles to its Marketing Division in the role of Chief Marketing Officer. Margles comes to Humanscale with twenty years of experience in design, fashion and retail and a background in public relations and advertising.
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Go ahead and take a seat for this one. Remember that time you read an article about how sitting all day at a desk will kill you and not just in a dead-on-the-inside way? Well, it turns out that standing all day may not be so great either.
Scientific evidence show that standing desks can adversely affect your body and cognitive abilities.
Thinking of getting standing desks for your employees … or even for yourself? You might want to think again.
Research shows that sedentary behavior causes or intensifies a wide range of health problems. Contrary to popular belief, physical inactivity and sedentary behavior are two distinct behaviors.
While it may be an afterthought to many and a word some have heard but few can define, ergonomics is highly relevant to anyone who works.
Desk-based workers would like to spend less time sitting down and more time walking or doing physical activity as part of their working day, research published in the open access journal BMC Research Notes suggests.
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While treadmill and standing desks have grown in popularity, they provide a clear impact on our health but perhaps not on our work itself.
A new study published in the Journal Psychological Science carried out by researchers at Ariel University and Tel Aviv University suggests that standing to work may improve cognitive performance as well as physical wellbeing.
So then, the quest for optimal workplace health grows ever more complex: If you have a job in which you're constantly on your feet, try carving out a few moments during the day in which you can take a load off. On the other hand, if you're an office-sitter equipped with only a chair, keep finding reasons to stand up and walk around more often.
The legacy of this fixed view is the enduring 20th Century approach based on an idea of desk-bound employees with a computer, whereas the pace of change in technology and working practices means that the relationship between people and place is changing all the time.
Media reports also overplayed the dangers of sitting at work, incorrectly saying it wiped out the benefits of exercise.
Dual-display setups and adjustable standing desks deliver a double dose of productivity and health benefits. The Ergotron WorkFit-S Dual Monitor with Worksurface+ enables dynamic positioning for displays and keyboards, plus one-handed operation for raising and lowering the work surface.
Researchers in this field trace the history of the idea that standing up is good for you back to 1953, when a study published in the /react-text Lancet react-text: 1232 found that bus conductors, who spend their days standing, had a risk of heart attack half that of bus drivers, who spend their shifts on their backsides.
Even after adjusting for a wide range of factors – personal; health conditions; personal behavior; and work (e.g. physical demands, shift schedule) – the risk of heart disease was found to be around twice as high among people who primarily stood on the job compared to those who primarily sat.
Is sitting as dangerous as smoking? Studies suggest that sitting too long at work could carry long-term health risks. Bloomberg QuickTake Q&A explains the dangers and how to counteract them. (video by Matt Goldman)
