Technology makes everything easier and within reach. The increase in impossible deadlines and strenuous goal completions is needed to ensure company growth in this country. We all heard about the dangers of sitting too much in a day and situations like these bring about impossible work-life balance and keeps employees stuck to their desks shuffling paper works and meeting deadlines. Employees stuck to their desks are:
Travel agents.
Employees who help travelers locate the best accommodation at affordable prices accomplish their tasks by securing enticing deals from the internet. Communication with clients is also easily completed through phone conversations and e-mails. Consequently, the work of today’s travel agents is confined in the office spaces thereby permitting very little opportunities for physical activities.
Digital marketers.
Social networking, search engine optimization, creating content articles, posting video blogs and promoting through smart phones are job descriptions of digital advertisers. Complying with these tasks is done by these employees using various programs in their computers. This means that this workgroup also spend at least 8 hours a day sitting in their respective offices.
Virtual assistants.
The dawn of the digital age has permitted worldwide connectivity making even far flung countries to serve as assistants for someone on the other side of the world. This type of employees carries out tasks through online submissions, internet-based reporting, and voice calls.
Lawyers.
Legal professionals exercise much of their brain cells but not their muscular tissues. This is because of the fact that spending extended sessions in courtrooms and offices has prohibited these practitioners from engaging in meaningful workouts
Administrative assistants.
Liaising between stakeholders and updating them with the progress of the project characterize the work schedule of the administrative assistants. Oftentimes, going to the comfort room or preparing coffee are the only moments of the day that the assistants are free to leave their desks.
Writers.
Whether he or she uses pen and paper or keyboards and computer; the work of writers calls for sedentary environment in order to let the ideas flow smoothly. Disrupting this ideal scenario would definitely affect the quality of the output. As a result, writers report that more than 70% of their workdays are spent sitting.
Designers.
Squeezing the creative juices for a graphic drawing or a house interior plan is easily done on a mobile phase. Furthermore, drafting the plan also require still conditions. Because of this, architects, graphic designers and artists spend 80% of their work shifts on their desks.
Coders.
The fact that majority of the needed technology today requires software for it to run smoothly, coders or software engineers and support technicians spend most of their time writing codes, designing codes and fixing codes. Coupled with unhealthy food like chips and energy drinks, makes them more vulnerable to health related problems.
Singapore physiotherapy professionals say that chronic back pain and muscle stiffness are one of the symptoms desk bound employees are likely to get. Because sitting in prolonged periods is a static posture causing an increase in pressure and stress to back muscles, shoulders and arms.
The internet is littered with articles and blogs about how to deal with sitting all day. They come up with simple stretches, exercises, change of work conditions and even the famed stand-up desk set up. But, it would take complete commitment in applying those advices and changes making these employees end up visiting a physiotherapist for back pains that are no longer tolerable.
An increase in chair bound employees is inevitable in the future. With how technology is changing the world, we could find less farmers or skilled manual workers and more of the desk bound ones. An event that can occur not just in Singapore but in all countries around the world. The best advice would be to take extra precaution and take the risks seriously while enjoying and growing the chosen career.