Kill Your Conference Room — the Future’s in Walking and Talking

"Sitting has become the smoking of our generation." I argued this in my recent talk at TED2013 http://conferences.ted.com/TED2013/program/guide.php#Tuesday,February26,2013 and elsewhere while advocating for the concept of "walking meetings" (or as I informally call them, "walkntalks").

Simply put: We spend more time sitting (average 9.3 hours a day) than sleeping (7.7 hours) — and it doesn’t even occur to us that this is not OK. So instead of using a standing desk, doing sitting meetings over coffee, or meeting in some fluorescent-lit conference room, I do one-on-one meetings as walks. It resolves the tradeoff between "taking care of health" and "getting stuff done."

By Nilofer Merchant

Full Story: http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/03/how-technology-can-make-us-stand-up/