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Hello, this is Zach Lion and this is my project.
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It is called corporate America stand up.
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I will be talking about the sit stand workstation and how it is growing in America
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and how I believe that all corporate America
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employees should have them in their office.
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So this is the typical life of an employee in corporate America.
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Their daily agenda from monday to friday from 8:30 a.m. To five p.m.
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You'll have them sit in a desk from 8 30 until noon and
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then about a 30 minute lunch break followed by um going back to
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their desk and sitting from about 12 30 until at least five.
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And that's about seven plus hours of sedentary
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time during our most active part of the day
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Too.
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Sedentary seven or more hours of sitting during the day during the
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middle of our day where we have most of our energy.
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That's physical energy, that's mental energy, that is all kinds of energy.
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It's bad for our health.
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Um An article I read from Gregory Garrett suggests that sedentary
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behavior is typically linked to major health diseases like diabetes,
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strokes heart diseases and many more.
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So I have a solution to this and it's called the sits down the workstation.
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Here's how it works.
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Employees will have a desk that raises by either the push of a
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button or by turning a crank as you can see in this picture.
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I have,
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they can choose whenever they want to sit and do their work at their computer or they
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can choose to stand or whatever mix of the two that they would want to do.
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Um So they can choose when they wanna move their chair,
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raise the desk and stand up while also working
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Now.
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Why this works is because it gives more employees the freedom and
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how they work more effectively and it's gonna increase their productivity.
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It's also gonna reduce sedentary time which like I said is bad for our health.
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Here's a picture of what the sit stand workstation looks like.
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Um There are many different types of sit stand workstations and this is
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a pretty basic one that you actually put on top of the desk.
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Um It can lay flat on top of the desk or like in this
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picture it's raised and I believe it can raise even higher than this.
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So you can also just put it flat and it's just like a normal desk.
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Next up I have is a Youtube video that I tried to
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get into this present so that I can watch it during it.
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But I cannot so I will post that link at the end so that you can watch it.
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I have the time slots listed of when um the
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video is relevant to what I am talking about.
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In conclusion, this is kind of my thesis.
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Corporate America now is the time to invest in your employees
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and their health and their productivity in their work every day.
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Let's make the corporate workplace and
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environment where all employees have the choice
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to sit or stand whenever they want while they're completing their work.
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And here are my sources. Thank you very much for listening.