Total and domain-specific sitting time among employees

Prolonged time spent in sedentary behaviours (e.g. too much sitting) has emerged as a new behavioural risk factor for chronic diseases, independent of the amount of time spent in leisure-time
physical activity. Desk-based employees reported that more than half of their total daily sitting time was accrued in the work setting. Given the high contribution of occupational sitting to total daily sitting time among desk-based employees, interventions should focus on the work setting.
This free article in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health concluded that health strategies to reduce daily sitting levels in desk-based workers should particularly focus on younger,
overweight/obese and insufficiently active individuals, as it seems that they are at the highest risk of this health-risk behaviour.
Bennie, J. A., Pedisic, Z., Timperio, A., Crawford, D., Dunstan, D., Bauman, A., van Uffelen, J. and Salmon, J. (2015), Total and domain-specific sitting time among employees in desk-based work settings in Australia. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 39: 237–242. doi: 10.1111/1753-6405.12293