Workplace Wellbeing: Sitting for 7 hours a day? How to avoid the health problems it causes

Sitting down all day at work can undermine your health. The Irish Heart Foundation says a sedentary lifestyle is associated with a higher risk of heart disease and stroke 

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Are you sitting comfortably? According to a survey carried out by the Irish Heart Foundation in 2018, the average Irish person spends 7.3 hours a day sitting down, so you probably are.

We’ve become increasingly sedentary at work. “Constant emails and notifications keep us glued to our computer screens, which means we spend more of our working day at our desks”, says Mark O’Reilly, founder of fitvision.ie which works with companies to develop mental and physical wellbeing programmes for employees.