{"id":86239,"date":"2026-06-23T23:50:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T23:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gulftimes.ae\/want-to-feel-happier-at-work-take-a-five-minute-walk\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T23:50:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T23:50:00","slug":"want-to-feel-happier-at-work-take-a-five-minute-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gulftimes.ae\/?p=86239","title":{"rendered":"Want to feel happier at work? Take a five-minute walk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lead researcher Keith Diaz told BBC News that most adults now spend three-quarters of their waking day sedentary. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While general advice to &#8220;sit less and move more&#8221; is correct, people need to know what dose, he added.<b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\"> <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The good news is that a walk break every hour for five minutes is enough to improve mood and lower fatigue. And people found this realistic and attainable,&#8221; Diaz said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The study by Columbia University surveyed more than 11,000 US employees &#8211; most of them in office jobs and working eight- to nine-hour shifts.<b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\"> <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">For the first week, they went about their usual routine and completed daily surveys about tiredness, their mood, and work performance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">For the following two weeks they were asked to take walking breaks at work of five minutes every half hour, every hour or every two hours and fill out similar surveys. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A walk every half hour was beneficial for mood and reducing tiredness, but was disruptive to the day job<i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">.<\/i> One every two hours was better than no walking, but researchers found a five-minute stroll each hour led to the biggest and most feasible improvement in productivity, mood and alertness. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c78yzz936evo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lead researcher Keith Diaz told BBC News that most adults now spend three-quarters of their waking&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":86240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[3532,10293,10292,7673,972],"class_list":["post-86239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-feel","tag-fiveminute","tag-happier","tag-walk","tag-work"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v21.0 (Yoast SEO v28.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Want to feel happier at work? 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