The latest WHO report on world health makes for depressing reading. It reveals that physical activity has been engineered out of life, with desk-based jobs replacing physical labour, lifts replacing stairs, and cars replacing active travel.

If you work in an office, the chances are there are some colleagues you would rather sit next to than others. But we’re not just talking personality likes or dislikes here – what can also be a factor is how clean they keep their desk, writes Michael Loughlin.

Desk-bound workers need to get up and move to stay healthy and ache-free, writes Abi Jackson.

People who sit at their desks all day are being told it could be as damaging to health as smoking.