Health experts have figured out how much time you should sit each day. Courtesy of Flickr user Juhan Sonin under Creative Commons license You may want to stand up while you read this -- and a lot of other stuff. Experts now say you should start standing up at work for at least two hours a day -- and work your way toward four. That's a long-awaited answer for a growing number of workers who may have heard of the terrible health effects of prolonged sitting and been wondering whether they should buy standing desks or treadmill desks. Today, the average office worker sits for about 10 hours, first all those hours in front of the computer, plowing through e-mails, making calls or writing proposals — and eating lunch.
And then all those hours of sitting in front of the TV or surfing the Web at home. Medical researchers have long warned that prolonged sitting is dangerous, associated with a significantly higher risk of heart disease, diabetes, obesity, cancer, and depression, as well as muscle and joint problems. “Our whole culture invites you to take a seat. Search articles. The WWW Virtual Library. Findelio. Being Bad at Video Games Ups Aggression. Intute - Home. Directory of Open Access Journals. Discover over 70,000+ databases and specially search engines. The WWW Virtual Library. The Evolution of Management Thought. Through the practice of management and the continued development of commerce and wealth we are transforming our lives.
In Massachusetts (USA) in the 1850s the life expectancy of a male would have been 37 years of age and a female 40: in 1929 it was 58 for a male and 61 for a female; nowadays life expectancy would be in the region 70-80 years. While appreciating the past success of ‘management’ we would also recognise that today’s accelerating pace of change is putting pressure on our organisations to be at the forefront of management thinking.
If we want to maintain our standard of living our rate of change has to be comparative to the rest of the world. But our present day management thinking has evolved from a whole range of influences over an extraordinary long period of time. In his comprehensive book ‘The Evolution of Management Thought’ Daniel A Wren writes: " Within the practices of the past there are lessons of history for tomorrow in a continuous stream. Home. Search Engines.