E-mail made obese office workers

Currently, people no longer have to run back and forth between departments to report and exchange information and papers. The explosion of e-mail is creating a generation of 'oversized' and inactive employees.

England's Sport England organization is urging people to refrain from sending unnecessary messages in Day 6 without e-mail ( E-mail Free Friday ). The simple reason for the campaign is ' e-mail makes you obese ' and encourages employees to leave their seats to walk around the work area to consume excess calories.

"Instead of getting up and going to the colleague's desk to get the materials, people can get in touch with just a few clicks and they're slowly skipping out useful little exercise. Dorian Dugmore, counselor Sport England, said: " We are losing hours of valuable campaign just because of e-mail. The average energy consumption index of desk staff has decreased significantly. People have formed a habit of using vegetables every day, and now is the time to build the same principle in office life ".

According to Dr Dugmore, the status of " screen slavery " has become " common culture " in many offices. Employees send e-mails to colleagues who sit right next to them, unaware of people working in other areas, choose the escalator in the train station, take the bus next to the house and get to the station closest to the office , take the elevator to the work floor and spend 8 hours in front of the screen. ' Increasing the level of mobilization by 10% can save 6,000 people, save 875 million USD per year, reduce 1 million obese people in the UK, meaning that 15,000 cases of heart disease will be limited, 34,000 people with diabetes and 99,000 cases of high blood pressure ', Dugmore estimates.

UK Phones 4U is also banning 2,500 employees from using e-mail in the office because it makes people paralyzed and prone to cancer .

Meanwhile, an unnamed young man in Scotland is undergoing treatment for message fury after spending $ 7,880 on SMS in just 12 months.

He was also disciplined for sending 8,000 e-mails in just one month at work. Considered the first 'addicted to SMS and e-mail' in the country, he is being placed under arrest to reduce the cost of text messages to less than $ 17.5 a week.

' The feeling when you receive SMS is very pleasant. Texting is like playing football. You send the message and get it back soon after , 'the 19-year-old said.

PT ( according to BBC, The Register )