The Physical and Mental Health Benefits from Moving Regularly
Over the past few years the working landscape has significantly evolved which has enabled flexible working environments and a significant promotion of hybrid and work from home opportunities. Whilst employers providing flexibility has quickly become an essential for employees and provided so many positive outcomes, there are some challenges this new way of working to consider. Some of these challenges include the physical ergonomic set up for some work from home offices. Not all households were set up for work from home offices and in some instances needing to accomodate a number of people in the same house working from home, often sending a member to the kitchen table or other impromptu offices. The physical set up can also be composed with other elements such as screen setups, lighting and chairs. With working from home on the rise we have also seen a significant decrease in general mobility and step count through the day. Working from home reduced the incidental walking t...