Abstract:Background: Desk-based office workers, who form the largest individual occupational sector, spend an average of three quarters of their working day sitting, primarily in prolonged, unbroken bouts, and with little time spent in standing and stepping activities. This distribution of activity and inactivity has known detrimental effects on health. As such, the office workplace is a key setting for sitting-reduction and activity-promoting interventions that could be delivered through workplaceled health and wellbe… Show more
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