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Extended Office Sitting is the New Smoking

Why should you walk around while making phone calls at work? How can the floor you have at the office affect your fitness? What effect do computer keyboards have on your health? Ivan Struhár, an ergonomics expert from Brno’s Masaryk University, gave us answers to these questions and more in an interview for #MORETHANOFFICE.

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Multitasking Is a Myth. How to Be Really Effective at Work?

Dan Gamrot is a leading Czech expert on personal productivity. He advises corporations and individuals, gives presentations and writes about how to work less but better. His zen serenity is inspiring and in his presence you quite naturally decide to stop working on five different projects at the same time and working at night. After all, your health is more important.

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Want the Smell of Herbs in the Air at Your Office?

Water with fresh mint or, say, pastries adorned in chopped chives. Herb gardens aren’t just a rural weekend pastime. They’re for office workers too. Companies worldwide have started setting up their own herb gardens. But how do you grow these plants, and what’s the right way to take care of them?

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Companies Are Coffee Crazed. Coffee Based Design Reigns at Their Offices

Coffee comes first. And coffee is actually the foundation around which many new offices’ interiors are shaped. You’ll even find coffee mentioned in every fourth job ad, and employee productivity is stunted not only by procrastination, but also by procaffeination: the pathological delaying of duties until after coffee time.

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A Tour Through The Healthiest Czech Office Inspired by Cars

Join us on the virtual guided tour of the Arval's new office. This workplace was awarded as the best healthy office during the last Meeting of the Year competition (under the patronage of the Czech green building council). As a paradox, Arval's healthy office is equipped with exhaust pipe on the roof.

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Doing Poorly at Work? It May Be the Air

What’s the atmosphere like at your job? We’re not talking about the mood among your workmates, but the literal concentration of CO2 and other substances floating through the air. All of these have a strong influence on people’s health and performance.