Are you at risk for sitting disease? Probably. The average person is sitting (aka sedentary) 12+ hours a day. Physical inactivity is now the 4th leading factor for global mortality. There has never been a better time – with the growing trend toward health-conscious living – to communicate the message that the average American’s sedentary lifestyle is detrimental to our health, and that ergonomic equipment and furniture – including standing desks – are an easy and affordable way to forever transform the way we work and live. It is against this backdrop that Ergotron, a leading manufacturer of ergonomic products for the office, home, school and healthcare environments, partnered with InkHouse. Together, we set out to expand broad awareness of “sitting disease,” position its executives as respected thought leaders on the topic and increase visibility of its standing desk solutions.

Keeping in mind the need to rise above the plethora of scientific research linking prolonged sitting to heart disease, diabetes and certain cancers and the subsequent headlines claiming that “sitting is the new smoking,” InkHouse recommended that Ergotron commission third-party research to serve as a foundation to root the company’s point of view in authority. But this wouldn’t be just any survey. Rather than focusing on how much people are sitting – that’s been done many times over – this survey would explore how it makes people feel to sit all day. It turns out almost 70% of full-time American workers hate sitting, but they still do it all day every day.