Mark Ramirez a senior executive at AOL 美國上班族流行站著工作 - 趣味新聞網

發表日期 2011-02-19T01:10:10+08:00

    Mark Ramirez, a senior executive at AOL, could work in the cushiest leather chair, if he wanted. No, thanks. He prefers to stand most of the day at a desk raised above stomach level.

    "I've got my knees bent, I feel totally alive," he said. "It feels more natural to stand."

    In the past few years, standing has become the new sitting for 10 percent of AOL employees at the firm's Virginia campus, part of a standing ovation among accountants, programmers, telemarketers and other office workers across the nation.

    AOL的高階主管馬剋拉米瑞茲大可以坐在最舒適的皮椅上工作。但是，謝啦，他更喜歡站著，在一張桌麵高於腹部以上的桌子前麵辦公。

    他說：「我以前都是彎著膝蓋，現覺得自己充滿活力。站著工作感覺更自然。」

    過去幾年來，AOL位於維吉尼亞州的分公司中，10％的員工都採取站立這站姿，除瞭他們以外，全美還有許多會計人員、程式設計人員、電話行銷人員都流行站著工作。

    Standers give various reasons for taking to their feet: It makes them feel more focused, prevents drowsiness, makes them feel like a general even if they just push paper. (Former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld works standing up. So does novelist Philip Roth.)

    But unknown to them, a debate is percolating among ergonomics experts and public-health researchers about whether all office workers should be encouraged to stand - to save lives.

    站著工作的人舉齣幾個理由：站立注意力更集中，驅散睡意，而且就算他們隻是個上班族，也會感覺像個將軍。（美國前國防部長倫斯斐也是站著工作的，小說傢菲力普羅斯也是如此。）

    有趣的是，到底要不要讓所有辦公室員工站著工作這一話題，在人類工程學學傢和公共健康研究員當中展開瞭一場拯救生命的為由辯論。

    Doctors point to surprising new research showing higher rates of diabetes, obesity, heart disease and even mortality among people who sit for long stretches. A study earlier this year in the American Journal of Epidemiology showed that among 123,000 adults followed over 14 years, those who sat more than six hours a day were at least 18 percent more likely to die during the time period studied than those who sat less than three hours a day.

    "Every rock we turn over when it comes to sitting is stunning," said Marc Hamilton, a leading researcher on inactivity physiology at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Louisiana. "Sitting is hazardous. It's dangerous. We are on the cusp of a major revolution." He calls sitting "the new smoking."

    醫生說，久坐的人易患糖尿病、肥胖癥、心髒病，坐著工作者死亡的機率比站立工作者要高。《美國流行病學雜誌》發錶的一項研究，一天靜坐超過6個小時人的死亡率，比靜坐時間少於3小時的人，高齣至少18％。該研究在14年的時間內對12.3萬名成人進行瞭跟蹤調查。

    馬剋漢密爾敦是美國路易斯安那州彭寜頓生物醫學研究中心的權威研究人員，他的研究方嚮是缺乏運動狀態下的生理學。他說：「我們有關久坐的每項研究結果都令人震驚。久坐是有害的，是危險的。我們正處於一場重大變革期。」他甚至稱「sitting」為「新型態的抽煙」。

    Not so fast, other experts say. Standing too much at work will cause more long-term back injuries. Incidences of varicose veins among women will increase. The heart will have to pump more.

    Hedge, the Cornell professor, isn't a fan of all this standing. "Making people stand all day is dumb," he said.

    The sensible and most cost-effective strategy, he said, is to sit in a neutral posture, slightly reclined, with the keyboard on a tray above the lap. This position promotes positive blood flow. Workers should occasionally walk around, stretch and avoid prolonged periods at the desk. The key, he said, is movement, not standing.

    當然也有專傢認為，不宜太早定論。工作中站立過久會導緻更多的慢性背部損傷。而且女性靜脈麯張發病率會增加。心髒負荷也會加大。

    康乃爾大學的海奇教授也不提倡站著工作。他說：「讓人們整天站著工作很愚蠢。」

    他認為，一個閤理且經濟的方法就是，坐姿要適中，微微靠嚮椅背，電腦鍵盤位在高於膝蓋的托盤上。這個姿勢可以促進血液環。而且要隨時四處走動，舒展身體，避免長時間坐在辦公桌前。他說，關鍵在於運動，而非站立。

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