Companies called to introduce 'standing desks' to tackle obesity

Companies will be called on to provide standing desks for workers as part of a major Government plan to tackle the country’s obesity crisis.

The move to introduce standing desks is part of a new policy to get an extra 50,000 people every year taking regular exercise over the next decade.

Health Minister Leo Varadkar said the national physical activity plan, the first of its kind in Ireland, would help cut the country’s rising health bill.