At a bank headquarters in St. Paul, some workers keep an extra pair of sensible shoes at their workstations, just so they can more comfortably use their new sit-to-stand desks. In St. Louis Park, an ...

Every fall for the past 10 years, the Chicago Tribune has produced Top Workplaces after surveying companies to see what they do to recruit and retain the talent needed to grow the top line and help it ...

I was delighted when my employer recently moved out of its old, decrepit offices in downtown St. Paul, Minnesota, and into a modern complex just across the Mississippi River. The new offices have ...

To sit or stand? It’s the great debate of modern office drones. A new, yearlong study about the ergonomics of work suggests you might want to do both. In the study, people report feeling physically ...

Desks that let you sit down or stand up to work may be a trendy piece of office furniture, but the health benefits of these desks are largely unproven, a new Cochrane Review study suggests. The ...

Can’t quite get on board with a standing desk? Try Hovr. In an ideal world, everyone who works in an office would stop every hour and take a 10-minute walk. That’s standard advice from ergonomic ...

If “sitting is the new smoking,” as our August 2013 feature on the dangers of sedentary time puts it, then working in an office is essentially a pack-a-day habit. The fact remains that even dedicated ...

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Keith Lindor had spent decades sitting at a desk. So when the executive vice provost and dean of the College of Health Solutions at Arizona State University was approached by a colleague about ...