Sitting Down All Day Is Bad For You

Via Lifehacker, an extravagant infographic on the health hazards of sitting all day.

As I've mentioned before, I've moved to a standing at work platform. The key element in it is that I bring a laptop (viz: MacBook Air) to work and most of the day I place it atop a stack of books that sits on the best. Then usually starting around 3PM I get tired of standing and pick the laptop up and work while sitting down. Easy! Obviously, not everyone owns a laptop, but my suspicion is that the proportion of officeworkers who own one will only grow over time. And, indeed, as the cost of computing power continued to fall there's more and more to be said for the idea of employers issuing laptops to employees rather than desktop computers. This kind of increased flexibility in terms of working style is just one of the advantages.