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Ideal Offices – Where Working is a Pleasure - Part One - Standing Desks

Apr 25th, 2017
Ideal Offices – Where Working is a Pleasure

Average office life has dramatically changed in the past 20 years. Offices with rooms for a few people and with spacious rooms for the leading staff have been exchanged for working spaces with capacity of even 60-70 people in a single room. Today there are several types of offices available for office rent in Hungary too. Moreover, there are not only the traditional sitting workstations but offices with both sitting and standing desks can be bought or hired. In this mini-series takes a look at different types of offices. The first part deals with the so called standing workplaces.

Standing desks are in. The combination of the sit stand desk and stand up workstation is also booming in the office market. And for good reason — there’s a growing body of medical evidence that long hours of sitting work can be surprisingly bad for your health. In shared serviced centers and call centers of multinational companies staff is sitting in front of the computer all day long can face the disadvantages of sitting work sooner or later.Standing desks, if used correctly, could be part of the solution. We review benefits, and precautions of standing desk for you. 

Risks of Hours of Uninterrupted Sitting

  • Even if you exercise nearly every day, those health benefits can be undone if you spend the rest of your time sitting
  • It could increase the risk of several illnesses such as obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer
  • It may cause a significantly greater risk of developing heart disease 
  • The most common and very physical is the presence of back and neck pain
  • Risks of unhealthy blood-sugar levels and type-2 diabetes
  • A greater chance of heart disease
  • Other risk factors of poor health 

Benefits of Standing Desks

  • Even if you exercise nearly every day, those health benefits can be undone if you spend the rest of your time sitting
  • It could increase the risk of several illnesses such as obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer
  • It may cause a significantly greater risk of developing heart disease 
  • The most common and very physical is the presence of back and neck pain
  • Risks of unhealthy blood-sugar levels and type-2 diabetes
  • A greater chance of heart disease
  • Other risk factors of poor health

What types of jobs work better in a standing position?

According to research jobs that require lengthy concentration and absorption are worth doing in a sitting position, while tasks that need creative thinking and loads of communication or routine duties can be accomplished while seated in an office. Once the province of a few dynamic individuals like Winston Churchill, Ernest Hemingway Charles Dickens and Kierkegaard were seldom seen inside a regular office setting, they preferred standing.

Part 2: http://www.budapestoffices.net/ideal-offices-where-working-pleasure-part-two-creative-coworking-offices

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