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Standing desk recipients complete financial training
By Eric Schares
April 1, 2016
April 1, 2016
Nine employees at Parks Library recently received a new adjustable standing desk for their office, but that’s not all: each recipient is also required to complete additional retirement counseling to plan for the extra years they will be adding to their life.
Ann Doty, Retirement Information Consultant in University Human Resources, said, “We are seeing more and more employees across the university with standing desks,” which have been shown by numerous studies to have health benefits such as reduced blood pressure, weight loss, and decreased risk of mortality.
“It’s important for our employees to get up and stand,” Doty continued. “A sedentary lifestyle contributes to bad health outcomes later on in life, and to be honest, the existing retirement counseling programs assume a standard lifespan,” based on the average American worker expectation of sitting on your butt all day, with only minor breaks to use the restroom or walk to a meeting.
“Now these people will be living 7-10 years longer, and they’ve thrown all our careful planning into a tailspin.”
Jesse Garrison, who received a standing desk in March, said, “The extra training was useful, but what it really did was open my eyes to all this new found time I’ll have. What am I going to do with 7 extra years? Hopefully by then the uploaded consciousness of George R. R. Martin will have finally finished his A Song of Ice and Fire series.”
Ann Doty, Retirement Information Consultant in University Human Resources, said, “We are seeing more and more employees across the university with standing desks,” which have been shown by numerous studies to have health benefits such as reduced blood pressure, weight loss, and decreased risk of mortality.
“It’s important for our employees to get up and stand,” Doty continued. “A sedentary lifestyle contributes to bad health outcomes later on in life, and to be honest, the existing retirement counseling programs assume a standard lifespan,” based on the average American worker expectation of sitting on your butt all day, with only minor breaks to use the restroom or walk to a meeting.
“Now these people will be living 7-10 years longer, and they’ve thrown all our careful planning into a tailspin.”
Jesse Garrison, who received a standing desk in March, said, “The extra training was useful, but what it really did was open my eyes to all this new found time I’ll have. What am I going to do with 7 extra years? Hopefully by then the uploaded consciousness of George R. R. Martin will have finally finished his A Song of Ice and Fire series.”