“Active Desk” – Its Time Is Now

Posted February 8th, 2010

The March-April 2010 issue of The Futurist has a brief article “Overcoming the ‘Desk Potato’ Syndrome.”   This product would be good for people like me, who  spend most of the day sitting at a desk and whose waist shows the signs of that sitting.  Yes, I know sitting at a desk is not the only cause of a big waist.

The ‘Active Desk’ is elevated so that one can work while walking on a treadmill.  This could work well in pipeline control centers.   I’ve been in a few control centers that have desks which elevate so the controller can stand.  Some control centers have treadmills in another room, but controllers don’t like to leave their workstations to use the treadmill.

Exercise is one method for alleviating stress and fatigue.   The ‘Active Desk’ was developed by the University of California, San Diego.  More information about the ‘Active Desk’ is available at http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/general/11-09ActiveDesk.asp.

This entry was posted on Monday, February 8th, 2010 at 9:05 pm and is filed under In the News, Managing Fatigue.