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Once upon a time, I was a guinea pig.
That’s right. In college, I was part of an ergonomic* study to measure the long-term effects of standing. Basically, that means I went to work every night and just stood around for several hours.
Officially, I stood four hours. We couldn’t move our legs. We couldn’t shift our weight. We didn’t walk around. We took no breaks.
Or else the entire shift was a break. It depends on your perspective, I suppose.
Here’s what the average shift looked like.
