Exercise is important for our health and to sit is unhealthy. That sounds logic. But Dutch people appear to be champions at this: a significant part of our workforce spends five days a week on an office chair in the office. The innovative furniture brand Lensvelt delivered a solution for this as early as 2010: the Electric Sit-Stand desk.

With this flexible and dynamic program, Lensvelt offers a choice of desks of various sizes, shapes and colors. This allows you to create individual as well a dual work or meeting spaces. The desks are electrically adjustable from 65 to 130 centimeters, so you no longer have to sit passively all day long.

This is how Lensvelt offers healthier offices and gets the office worker moving. Nowadays this is a necessity rather than luxury: researchers claim that long periods of sitting increases the chance of an early death.

Sitting is the new smoking.

Not only going to the gym after or before work, but also the purchase of the Sit To Stand desks at work are a good start of a behavioral change.

Several companies have adopted this system to encourage movement. One such company, Q42, an organisation which builds apps, websites, connected devices, games, robots, AI and VR, opted for the Sit To Stand desks.  In the new building in The Hague, almost all employees were provided a standing office desk by Lensvelt. ‘It is sustainable furniture that ensures a healthier attitude and offers a choice of standing and sitting options,’ says Office Manager Wendy van Lienden of Q42 in The Hague. ‘I walk all day, so I have less need for it, but more and more colleagues think this is a great way of working.’