5 Tips for Launching a Company Health and Wellness Program
A happy and healthy worker is a productive worker. In fact, investing in employee health and wellbeing has a number of benefits and upsides for workers as well as employers, from higher productivity to significant savings in healthcare costs. According to the Harvard Business Review, major...
5 Tips for Being & Feeling Healthier in the Office
Between bright lights, cheap chairs, snack machines, soda-filled fridges, 20 minute lunches (at your desk!), and those damn donuts Ralph from accounting brought in, offices are often the places where health and wellness go to die. But it doesn’t have to be this way.
6 Ways Employees Benefit from Standing at Work
A multitude of studies have been published about the adverse effects of sitting all day and the many benefits that standing (and moving) offer people. Truly optimal is the ability to shift from sitting to standing and back again. Adding in some simple movement, such as walking to the water...
Energy Expenditure on the Level: Behind the Scenes of the Recent University of Idaho Study
Recently we chatted with Megan Nelson, a PhD student at the University of Idaho, Department of Movement Sciences, Exercise Physiology Research Laboratory. She had concluded a research study on the effectiveness of standing on a balance board for increasing energy expenditure, the results of...
Easy Desk Exercises to Combat Unhealthy Habits
That pain in your neck might be the stress of the encroaching holidays -- or it could be the strain of sitting (or standing) still all day at work. And as it turns out, your neck isn't the only thing that sitting can hurt: according to a variety of recent studies, including a new study...