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01/15/2008: "Desk-bound jobs harm productivity, erase minds"

Britain's deskbound workforce is becoming increasingly uncommunicative and unhealthy with mobile technology an answer to the problem, according to a new study.

Performance consulting firm HB Maynard said forcing end-users to get out their chairs and talk to people could lift depression and motivate people to higher levels of productivity.

Modern deskbound, immobilised workers are less healthy, more prone to injury and less motivated, according to the study. Exactly half of all office workers feel they are chained to their desks and 80% of those interviewed felt that their health and productivity could improve if they were allowed to be more mobile.

[ Give them TVs and you can make them outright retarded. ]

http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2007/11/02/227921/deskbound-work-culture-stifles-productivity.htm