Desks that let you sit down or stand up to work may be a trendy piece of office furniture, but the health benefits of these desks are largely unproven, a new Cochrane Review study suggests. The ...

Without question, inactivity is bad for us. Prolonged sitting is consistently linked to higher risks of cardiovascular disease and death. The obvious response to this frightful fate is to not sit—move ...

(CNN) -- Sitting is the new smoking, we're told, and suddenly sit-stand desks are everywhere. But do we know just how healthy they are and the best ways to use them? Science is just now catching up to ...

Using a standing desk could help reduce sitting time for more than an hour a day among office workers, a new study suggests. Standing desks, among other measures, could help reduce sedentary behaviour ...

As a writer dedicated to focusing almost exclusively on software application development and data management, it’s tough to cover hardware and gadgets. What’s tougher is that I focus on enterprise ...

To sit or stand? It’s the great debate of modern office drones. A new, yearlong study about the ergonomics of work suggests you might want to do both. In the study, people report feeling physically ...

(Reuters Health) - Workers who use sit-stand desks may reduce the amount of time they spend in a chair by more than an hour a day, according to a review of research on the best ways to curb sedentary ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC/CNN Newsource) - New research suggests that switching to a standing desk might not be the best way to prevent issues caused by prolonged sitting. Standing desks were born out of the ...

TAMPA, Fla. (BLOOM) — For office workers, sitting all day might feel as natural as coffee breaks and group emails that could’ve been just one sentence. But is the solution to all that chair time as ...

For the past five years, U.S. employers and workers have been learning of the health benefits associated with sit-stand desks. While their popularity has surged recently, the technology has actually ...

Sitting is the new smoking, the headlines have blared. But a new analysis finds that most people with adjustable sit-stand desks spend most of their day sitting, anyway, and that other initiatives to ...