NRC: ANSWERING EMAILS WHILE ON A BIKE

Sitting often is not good for your health. A growing amount of research proves this. Companies are adjusting their office floors accordingly. For instance, with fewer chairs in the cafeteria.

Before Ingrid Hendriksen starts checking her emails in the morning, she moves her exercise bike underneath her desk. And if she receives a call, she gets up and walks around the office floor. Being a researcher for TNO, she has a sedentary occupation, yet she keeps the sitting to a minimum.

That this researcher is so active and wishes to sit still as little as possible, is not strange. She researches sedentary behaviour for TNO. Or simpler said: sitting behaviour.

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