华丽丽的跑步机办公桌真的有用吗_BEC初级作文

华丽丽的跑步机办公桌真的有用吗

一年的调查期结束时，拥有跑步机办公桌的员工给自己打出的绩效评分（按一到10评分）相比项目开始前提高了0.69个点；由管理者给出的绩效评分上升了整整一个点。管理者每个星期填写一次调查问卷，同时给使用跑步机的员工和不使用跑步机的员工打分。

For tasks like solving problems or taking conference calls, 'a little bit of walking is useful because it means there's more blood flow to the brain,' said Avner Ben-Ner, a professor at the University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management and an author of the study, which was published last month in the online journal PLOS ONE. 'You get more oxygen and it increases the ability to think.'

相关论文于2月份发表在网络期刊《公共科学图书馆・综合》(PLOS ONE)上。论文作者之一、明尼苏达大学(University of Minnesota)卡尔森管理学院(Carlson School of Management)教授阿夫纳・本-内尔(Avner Ben-Ner)说，对于解决问题或参加电话会议之类的任务，“适当走走是有用的，因为这会加快大脑的血液循环。你会获得更多的氧气，从而提高思考的能力”。

Treadmill desks have gotten attention amid research findings about the negative effects of sedentary lifestyles and jobs that leave workers sitting all day. But data on the effectiveness of the desks has been relatively scant. Two recent studies have shown that treadmill walking reduced a person's accuracy in fine-motor tasks such as typing and mouse-clicking.