The consensus is that more time spent standing or walking in the office is more beneficial to employees than an entirely sedentary day. New-fangled desks and work stations that combine sitting and standing capability, and even treadmills underneath, are all over the Internet.
Opponents to workers walking or standing while they work claim it detracts from concentration levels. Now, a new study out of Brigham Young University supports that claim, but says the compromise in levels of concentration and productivity don’t outweigh the advantages of people being more physically active during the workday.
So even if sit-stand or treadmill desks lend themselves to tasks that are less cognitively demanding, the authors of the study strongly advocate for them. So if anyone in your workforce has expressed an interest in a more mobile work environment, they now have some empirical research to help convince their boss.