Average office worker spends 80,000 hours seated during working life

By Philip Hopkins
Updated April 1 2015 - 12:18am, first published 12:00am
Australia Post's refurbishment of its main Cleveland Street office in Redfern Photo: sjohanson@fairfaxmedia.com.au
Australia Post's refurbishment of its main Cleveland Street office in Redfern Photo: sjohanson@fairfaxmedia.com.au
In the refurbished Australia Post office only 10 per cent of workers are more than eight metres from windows. Photo: sjohanson@fairfaxmedia.com.au
In the refurbished Australia Post office only 10 per cent of workers are more than eight metres from windows. Photo: sjohanson@fairfaxmedia.com.au
In the refurbished Australia Post office only 10 per cent of workers are more than eight metres from windows. Photo: sjohanson@fairfaxmedia.com.au
In the refurbished Australia Post office only 10 per cent of workers are more than eight metres from windows. Photo: sjohanson@fairfaxmedia.com.au
Australia Post's refurbishment of its main Cleveland Street office in Redfern Photo: sjohanson@fairfaxmedia.com.au
Australia Post's refurbishment of its main Cleveland Street office in Redfern Photo: sjohanson@fairfaxmedia.com.au
Australia Post's refurbishment of its main Cleveland Street office in Redfern Photo: sjohanson@fairfaxmedia.com.au
Australia Post's refurbishment of its main Cleveland Street office in Redfern Photo: sjohanson@fairfaxmedia.com.au
In the refurbished Australia Post office only 10 per cent of workers are more than eight metres from windows. Photo: sjohanson@fairfaxmedia.com.au
In the refurbished Australia Post office only 10 per cent of workers are more than eight metres from windows. Photo: sjohanson@fairfaxmedia.com.au
Australia Post's refurbishment of its main Cleveland Street office in Redfern Photo: sjohanson@fairfaxmedia.com.au
Australia Post's refurbishment of its main Cleveland Street office in Redfern Photo: sjohanson@fairfaxmedia.com.au
In the refurbished Australia Post office only 10 per cent of workers are more than eight metres from windows. Photo: sjohanson@fairfaxmedia.com.au
In the refurbished Australia Post office only 10 per cent of workers are more than eight metres from windows. Photo: sjohanson@fairfaxmedia.com.au

Studies estimate the average office worker spends about 80,000 hours seated during their working life.  Not surprisingly, this lack of activity has produced well documented health problems – chronic back pain, cardio-vascular disease and poor mental health.

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