'"I walk about 1.5 kilometres when I'm at work. I do that for about 2 hours every day." That easily makes 3 kilometres a day, 15 kilometres a week, 60 a month. That is a pretty decent amount of exercise for someone with a desk job. "It's a good tempo, you can still work behind the computer and make phone calls," Kees Vaes, editor for the scientific publisher John Benjamins in Amsterdam, explains.
"It's good to stay active for me, I have back problems. Sitting behind a desk all day is unpleasant for me. When I read about the Walkdesk, I thought, what a great idea!" '