Standing every 20 minutes negates the effects of sedentary work

Sitting all day at work is killing us.

For most of us, this is old news. (Terrifying, but old.)

If you’re like me, as soon as you learned the horrors of a sedentary work life you cobbled together a makeshift standing desk from empty boxes around the office and started taking walks at lunchtime.

But then life got in the way, and your standing desk fell apart and you had to work through lunch. You begrudgingly accepted that you were doomed to sit.

If you need some fresh motivation to get off your bum, check out this infographic from StandDesk. Not only does it remind you about scary statistics like how sitting for more than five hours is the health equivalent of smoking more than a pack of cigarettes per day, but it lists benefits of moving around.