How Machine Learning Will Help You Make Healthier Choices At Work

One Googler explains how small innovations now are adding up to "smart," health-boosting workplaces of the future.

It's not easy to be healthy. And it's even harder to be healthy at work, where chances are—despite the vogue for standing desks and the like—you're parked in a chair for most of the day, focused on a screen. The average workweek, by one recent measure, is now 47 hours and counting. By and large, more time spent at the office means more time hunched over a computer, probably eating lunch at a desk. Stress—which has been linked to increased risk of stroke, heart disease, and other health issues—is just about inevitable as a result.

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