That lunch at your desk in now an workplace norm is one thing. But, "treadmill desks"? Can the toilet-in-a-desk-chair (ergonimically correct, one hopes) be far behind?
UPDATE: For CJR reader Kevin who politely requested a media angle to the above:
If you go to the walk-working social networking site cited in this article, you see that the media is keen on the treadmill desk story. The AP was soliciting treadmill desk-ers on the networking site in July; ABC News's 20/20 was on it in August, the result of which has an unmistakable Daily Show feel: (ABC's JOHN STOSSEL: "They used to call it 'secretary spread.' Those extra pounds that appear on the bottom of workers who sit all day at their desks...")
From a 2007 ABC News report on the same, this one from Good Morning America: "For Amy Langer, working is now a losing proposition — losing weight, that is..."
NPR explored, "What does the new apparatus say about our multi-tasking society?" in February 2008.
This is an excellent critique of journalism. Oh, wait. No, it's not. In fact, it has nothing whatever to do with the purported subject of this blog. Oh, well.
Kevin,
Snark and you shall receive! See my update.
Liz
Thanks, Liz, for the media-angly goodness!