These days employees are working for continuous working hours. This is scientifically proven that people who are sitting for such long hours will fall and lead to many diseases in future. For this, there is a solution for all those people. Taking frequent breaks from can act as stress booster and also good for health. Taking a walk for every two hours can keep to away from heart diseases, diabetes, and early death.
Most of the software employees are suffering from obesity which is caused because they sit at a place from long time and work. For this if they take a break for every two hours it will be good for them.
“A reduction in sitting time by 71 minutes per day could have a positive effect in the long run as this could be associated with reduced risk of heart diseases, diabetes, and all-cause mortality, especially among those who are inactive,” said professor Janne Tolstrup, National Institute of Public Health, from Denmark.
Researchers conducted a multi-component work based invention to reduce sitting time and long sitting hours. For this researchers worked from the University of Southern Denmark, The National Research Centre for Prevention and Health and the University of Sydney.
This team of researchers done this analysis in 19 offices located in Denmark. They observed and analyzed about 317 office workers. This intervention included many things such as changes in the office environment and special workshop and also workers are encouraged to use sit-stand desks.
Using accelerometer device during the five-day working week the researchers are able to measure the differences in them and make a report accordingly. All over the analysis the workers sat down for about 71 minutes less in eight-hour work day. Later reduced to 48 minutes after three months.
“The number of steps per workday hour was seven percent higher at one month and eight percent higher at three months,” according to the study published in the International Journal of Epidemiology.