Working From Home
Your Best Home Office Might Be the Kitchen, Bedroom, or Couch
Why sit at a desk all day when you’ve got other rooms to use?
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“You should never sit for more than 10 minutes, if you possibly can,” says Galen Cranz. The University of California at Berkeley College of Environmental Design professor emerita says your spine is designed to support you in an “S”-shape. Standard chairs, however, force you into a hunched “C” that leads to weak abdominal and back muscles and causes neck pain.
Cranz, author of The Chair: Rethinking Culture, Body, and Design, has spent 30 years preaching the benefits of shifting positions throughout the workday. She wants you to ditch the idea of working in one place and instead rotate between as many as seven. Here’s her advice on how to make the most of each of them.