Qualitative productivity is the major objective for all employees and employers in this world. But while working toward this objective, they often forget to pay attention to their routine physical activities, which can cause huge stress in addition to poor health outcomes.

In 2015, the U.S. Centres for Disease Control and Prevention published a report which states that workplace-related illnesses cost the U.S. economy more than $225 billion every year.

During this period, research from the University of Arizona reported that workers in open offices proved to be more productive with less stress compared to the ones working in closed private cubicles and AC offices. This study was led by the UA Institute on Place, Wellbeing and Performance and the UA Centre for Integrative Medicine, in association with the Baylor College of Medicine and Aclima Inc. This work was under the Wellbuilt for Wellbeing program, funded by the U.S. General Services Administration.

Dr. Esther Sternberg, the lead author of this study and the research director of the UA Centre for Integrative Medicine said, "This research highlights how office design, driven by office workstation type, could be an important health promoting factor."

This work was published under the title, ‘Effects of office workstation type on physical activity and stress’ in BMJ Occupational and Environmental Medicine.