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Make office workers stay active and healthy throughout their day

Want to bring movement to the office and help your employees stay healthy? Below are a few tips on how electric sit-stand desks and motivational tools help create healthy office habits. Standing for eight minutes every 30 minutes makes a huge difference.

Sit-stand guide Tech and Trends

For every 30 minutes: Move for two minutes, stand for eight minutes, sit for 20 minutes

Several studies show that breaking up physical inactive periods will help minimise their negative health effects. Electric sit-stand desks bring movement in the office, and this is what it is all about. As it is neither healthy to stand nor to sit all day, the ideal situation is to switch between the two and to move around as much as possible throughout the day.

In fact, experts claim that the ideal sit-stand balance for every 30 minutes is to:

  • Stand for eight minutes
  • Move/stretch for two minutes
  • Sit in neutral positions for 20 minutes
Make office workers stay active and healthy
 
 

Choose a desk system designed to help office workers stay active

Changing habits is not an easy task. But there are ways to help develop healthy habits. To support office workers, LINAK made an extra effort to design user-friendly office desk systems and motivating desk accessories.

 

Desk Panels with integrated sit-stand reminders

The most visible part of a sit-stand desk is the desk panel. If a desk is easy to control, changing postures during the day becomes an easier task. Most LINAK desk panels include memory position functions, allowing users to store their favourite desk heights, and making it easier to switch between their preferred sit and stand position.

For intuitive desk handling, LINAK designed the Desk Panel DPG series. It is designed for operating without the use of buttons. Advanced models include sit-stand reminder functions via an integrated LED diode / light strip – its colour indicating to the user when it is time to stand up.

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Desk Control App
LINAK Desk Control app
 
 

Personal sit-stand statistics and tracking via an app

Most LINAK desk systems also allow users to receive sit-stand reminder notifications and to follow his/her personal statistics via the free Desk Control™ App.

The free LINAK® Desk Control App comes in different versions for different platforms:

  • iOS for iPhones and iPads
  • Android for Android smartphones and tablets
  • Windows 10 for PCs

Download your free copy of the Desk Control app in stores by following this link.

 

References

Figure by (Hedge, Sit-Stand Working Programs, 2016) as cited in (Hedge, Ergonomic Workplace Design for Health, Wellness and Productivity, 2017, p. 20)

Hedge, A. (2016, March 18). Sit-Stand Working Programs Retrieved from http://ergo.human.cornell.edu/CUESitStandPrograms.html

Hedge, A. 2017 Ergonomic Workplace Design for Health, Wellness and Productivity. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group .

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MOVE – Why sit-stand desks increase work performance

Reduce sick days and create a modern office environment with electric sit-stand desks. An attractive investment for employers and their employees.

App solutions for office desks

Which app to choose? The LINAK Desk Control™ App or the branded, customised Desk Control™ App? We provide you with an overview in this booklet.

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