It is offset at all by all the workers who are forced to sit their entire shifts? It's probably better on our bodies to stand than to sit for 6 hours at a time, but it starts in schools and ends at desk work. Standing desks are nice, and can help, but not everyone has access to them.
One of the nice things about working from home is that it allows people to escape that kind of environment to a point, but it just enables other types of obsessive micromanagement like "Why hasn't your mouse moved for 15 minutes!" or keeping cameras pointed at you all day long.
What we really need is less micromanaging and an expectation that not everyone is going to be at their desk every minute of the day, but that's a very hard sell in some environments.
> It's probably better on our bodies to stand than to sit for 6 hours at a time, but it starts in schools and ends at desk work.
It definitely isn't, standing puts enormous strains on our bodies. Walking for 6h is much easier and better, but sitting out lying down are much better than just standing.
They're also talking about a population of workers - this includes elderly people with bad hips, bunions, handicapped people who aren't always given proper accommodations, etc.
