Bob King

The Desk Job Health Crisis Is a Design Problem

Bob King, founder and CEO of Humanscale, argues that the health risk of office work is not simply sitting but prolonged stillness in workstations that pull people into hunched, static positions. He says many chairs, desks and monitor setups fail because they require users to remember controls, habits and posture rules rather than making movement easy. The broader case is that office health should be treated as a design problem, extending from chairs and screens to daylight, indoor air and material transparency.