
Standing vs. Sitting: Which Is Best?
One of the new trends in office design is the standing desk. The goal of these standing desks is to get people to sit less. Some authors have gone so far as to equate sitting to smoking (Buckley, et al., 2015). While I don't think I would go quite that far, it would appear that such activities have a negative overall effect on our health. Research presented at the British Psychological Society's Annual Occupational Conference (Duncan, Kazi and Haslam, 2015) stated that, in a