"Could you sit down please?" A qualitative analysis of employees' experiences of standing in normally-seated workplace meetings.

ABSTRACT: Office workers spend most of their working day sitting, and prolonged sitting has been associated with increased risk of poor health. Standing in meetings has been proposed as a strategy by which to reduce workplace sitting but little is known about the standing experience. This study documented workers' experiences of standing in normally seated meetings. Twenty-five participants (18+ years), recruited from three UK universities, volunteered to stand in 3 separate, seated meetings that they were already scheduled to attend. They were instructed to stand when and for however long they deemed appropriate, and gave semi-structured interviews after each meeting. Verbatim transcripts were analysed using Framework Analysis. Four themes, central to the experience of standing in meetings, were ex

SUBMITTER: Mansfield L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6019091 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature