Want To Increase Productivity At Work? The Secret Is Revealed!

Productivity among students can be increased by using standing desks as what most people believe. These desks may also help burn calories and enhance their cognitive functioning. But with the new research, it was found that standing up could also enhance productivity at work.

The productivity differences between the two groups of call center employees were studied for six months. The results indicate that those working with stand-capable workstations were 46 percent more productive compared to those with seated, traditional desks.

Productivity was assessed by the researchers from the Texas A&M Health Science Center School of Public Health through the number of successful calls that the workers have finished each hour at work. Based on the work, which related to this research in a publication before, the workers in stand-capable desks sat for 1.6 hours less each day compared to the seated desk workers. The study has been published in the journal IIE Transactions on Occupational Ergonomics and Human Factors, according to News Max.

An interesting finding of the research is that the productivity differences between seated and stand-capable groups were not as big on the first month. According to lead author Gregory Garett, they started to see higher increases in productivity with stand-capable groups beginning with the second month.

The research paper also indicates that standing during the day may improve the worker's health, considering that almost 75 percent of employees working in stand-capable workstations had decreased body discomfort following the usage of the desks for a six-month duration. Garrett believes that declines in body discomfort could be the reasons for a few of those productivity differences between two groups. However, he also thinks that standing desks could have an effect on the cognitive performance - the focus of the research.

The research on productivity is a breakthrough in the assessment of productivity impacts of office personnel, since the population of call center workers was tied directly to very objective information on their productivity level according to Tribune.