Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America.
School of Urban and Public Affairs, University of Texas-Arlington, Arlington, Texas, United States of America.
PLoS One. 2014 Feb 20;9(2):e88620. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0088620. eCollection 2014.
We conducted a 12-month-long experiment in a financial services company to study how the availability of treadmill workstations affects employees' physical activity and work performance. We enlisted sedentary volunteers, half of whom received treadmill workstations during the first two months of the study and the rest in the seventh month of the study. Participants could operate the treadmills at speeds of 0-2 mph and could use a standard chair-desk arrangement at will. (a) Weekly online performance surveys were administered to participants and their supervisors, as well as to all other sedentary employees and their supervisors. Using within-person statistical analyses, we find that overall work performance, quality and quantity of performance, and interactions with coworkers improved as a result of adoption of treadmill workstations. (b) Participants were outfitted with accelerometers at the start of the study. We find that daily total physical activity increased as a result of the adoption of treadmill workstations.
我们在一家金融服务公司进行了为期 12 个月的实验，以研究跑步机工作站的可用性如何影响员工的身体活动和工作绩效。我们招募了久坐的志愿者，其中一半在研究的前两个月接受了跑步机工作站，其余的在研究的第七个月接受了跑步机工作站。参与者可以在 0-2 英里/小时的速度下操作跑步机，并可以随意使用标准的桌椅布置。(a)每周向参与者及其主管以及所有其他久坐的员工及其主管在线进行绩效调查。通过使用个体内统计分析，我们发现由于采用了跑步机工作站，整体工作绩效、绩效的质量和数量以及与同事的互动都得到了改善。(b)参与者在研究开始时配备了加速度计。我们发现，由于采用了跑步机工作站，每天的总身体活动量增加了。
