{"id":7405,"date":"2021-08-13T18:45:59","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T10:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/?p=7405"},"modified":"2021-08-13T18:46:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T10:46:00","slug":"prolonged-sitting-linked-to-impaired-work-performance-during-the-covid-19-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/prolonged-sitting-linked-to-impaired-work-performance-during-the-covid-19-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Prolonged sitting linked to impaired work performance during the COVID-19 pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>In a study published in the\u00a0<\/strong><em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__http:\/\/link.mediaoutreach.meltwater.com\/ls\/click?upn=odI79QlAxCLUUfW1DyzVPUJ0R8JAUfOTEMcMfYND7gyHWks9T9cdN6HBJdtCM7IWgsE6DK-2BzZxJBKc6VyorwHQ-3D-3DtwVr_wIoCCyIvBSHnVq0tmDa8zC75iAJg6LIWiOkvFWzClfCVZ-2BXuXx7nChe9Xnky7TEZB2nDBwbtfgnEFlJo6iNtS2lNG-2BiETWL2T4ljghWoAnpHD8Zh0akl3KdZpPmwnV8lQcxFxRW5UfQNfQ1n7GWeY9uS8o-2FXpoK4NkMRtkahZb1K-2FHO-2Bf0b5V8s6IXfTm3CpzzwRNS9K7x-2BILCd1WjoVdbUqwRsnOifXb7F30M3xBnd9eGJNWLhuFNHlIJ3i85DGIVPpVgQwAF1FzSggFBJabF1QX9tgaA4so1QvxcNHaUhQEE5KWUMzAD1vOK-2B1DKwy0U8zQt3HwYZR1Fk8CNXDd-2B3-2BoE6xTAv8mE5AKDS-2FLfVNLDGjr-2FsD-2B-2BOu3P9yhapm__;!!N11eV2iwtfs!6iV7VuAerO8-lxCtlAOtkfWE0EC59cg7BopV_EU7Nk9Yaz9V_yMuGPg0ycV-uw$\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Journal of Occupational Health<\/strong><\/a><\/em><strong>, workers who had to sit for long periods of time during the COVID-19 pandemic reported worsened job performance.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the survey-based study of 14,648 workers in Japan, 15% of workers said that pandemic-related changes in the work environment worsened their work performance, 4% said it improved their work performance, and 81% said it caused no change. Although telework both improved and worsened performance, sitting for long periods of time was associated only with worsened performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe COVID-19 pandemic provided us a chance to reconsider the traditional working style. As our paper suggested, we should avoid a long sitting duration to maintain performance,\u201d said lead author Kenta Wakaizumi, MD, PhD, of the Keio University School of Medicine, in Tokyo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although telework both improved and worsened performance, sitting for long periods of time was associated only with worsened performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7406,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2294,20],"class_list":["post-7405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsmakers","tag-covid-19","tag-wellness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7407,"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7405\/revisions\/7407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}