Sitting is the new smoking. For some years now, health experts have been increasingly warning of the potential health consequences that can be associated with a predominantly sedentary lifestyle. These include back and neck pain, a slower metabolism and even a higher risk of diabetes, heart attacks and strokes.
Regularly alternating between sitting, standing and working at a computer - whether in the office or at home - is a major challenge. But there is a solution: Leitz Ergo makes prevention child's play. The products enable you to design your workspace ergonomically and easily and playfully integrate more movement into your working day - for more well-being and a good feeling. In this way, you create an environment that helps you to stay active and healthy in the long term and prevent common complaints such as back and neck pain.
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Products that will help you move more often
Products ergomically designed to encourage increased movement for office and home workers.
Stand for 15 mins per hour
The German Institute for Ergonomics & Wellbeing (IGR) advocates standing for 30% of the working day, sitting for 60% and moving the rest of the time (10%).
Did you know that standing for 15 minutes per hour while you work will burn 20,000 more calories per year? This corresponds to 6 full marathons and it will help make you healthier and happier!
Standing Desks
Solutions Moving between sitting and standing while you work makes for a much healthier lifestyle.
Electric Desk: Smart and Effortless
Compact electric standing desks with 80 x 60 cm desktop, perfect where space is limited like in home offices or hot desking areas. This desk has a smooth electric height adjustment feature with a smart stand-up reminder and 4 memory functions allowing you to find the perfect ergonomic position.
Pneumatic Desk: Full Flexibility
Easy to use pneumatic assisted height adjustment from 75 to 114 cm, no need for a socket. High quality castor wheels for full flexibility.
Standing Desk Converter
The perfect solution, if you already have a desk. Our standing desk converters are compact and height adjustable. Their simple flexibility makes it easy to adjust your workstation as you switch between sitting and standing.
Active Sitting Solutions
Alternating seating positions results in regular movement and can be adapted to a wide variety of work scenarios.
Active Sitting Stools
Active Sitting and Active Standing Stools encourage muscle movement, improving posture and increasing energy levels.
Dynamic Sitting Balls
Alternate between the ball and a chair every 30 mins to improve posture, flexibility and help relieve back pain.
Wobble Cushions
Improves blood circulation and can relieve spinal pressure by creating micro-movement to maintain balance and minimising contact between your tailbone and the chair.
Our Sedentary Lifestyles
We sit down at breakfast, in the car or public transport travelling to work (and back again) and then in the office for an average of 7 hours per day. And all to often at home we spend the whole day sitting down watching TV, on a tablet or mobile phone. Unfortunately, this does not improve in the home office.
Sitting down for long periods of time lowers metabolism, fewer calories are burnt and the risk of obesity and diabetes increases. It also causes deposits to form on blood vessels causing higher risk of heart attack and stroke as abdominal fat increases. Messenger substances are also produced, which interfere with the body's immune system.
Our product highlights for more movement in the office & home office
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Working with Ergonomic Specialists
The German Institut für Gesundheit und Ergonomie GmbH, otherwise known as “IGR” or The Institute for Health and Ergonomics, supports companies, public authorities and consumers to optimise and advance workplace ergonomic standards.
Leitz and the Institute for Health and Ergonomics are working together to provide products that can help businesses with the changing demands of healthy working environments. The focus is on new ways of working in the office, on the move and from home.
The IGR only award products that satisfy its strict criteria for ergonomic usability and adaptability to meet the individual needs of users in accordance with and meet the usability and ergonomics standards set by DIN 26800 EN ISO 15537.
Ergonomics Buying Guide
Our guide will help you select the right ergonomic products for you.