TY - GEN
T1 - When to Take a Break? Exploring the Role of Peers on Sedentary Office Workers’ Resting Behaviors
AU - Qin, Ling
AU - Sun, Xu
AU - Liu, Bingjian
AU - Leyva, Luis Moreno
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - For sedentary office workers, occupational sitting is a health hazard [1]. Excessive sitting, especially prolonged sitting (i.e. sitting more than one hour) without rest is highly likely to increase the risks of metabolic syndrome, obesity, cardiovascular disease and a range of other conditions, all of which cannot even be compensated for by taking exercise [2, 3]. Peer effect is a phenomenon whereby the behavior of an individual is affected by the behavior of their peers. It has been identified in the workplace with regards to wages, absenteeism and investment decision making in recent studies [4–7]. This paper contributes to the stream of research on peer effects on sedentary office workers by proposing a model to quantify the peer effects on office workers’ break behaviors, and by exploring how individual break behaviors can be affected by peers in the same workspace. In conclusion, peer effects have been detected in offices and have proved to have a marked influence on sedentary office workers’ resting behaviors.
AB - For sedentary office workers, occupational sitting is a health hazard [1]. Excessive sitting, especially prolonged sitting (i.e. sitting more than one hour) without rest is highly likely to increase the risks of metabolic syndrome, obesity, cardiovascular disease and a range of other conditions, all of which cannot even be compensated for by taking exercise [2, 3]. Peer effect is a phenomenon whereby the behavior of an individual is affected by the behavior of their peers. It has been identified in the workplace with regards to wages, absenteeism and investment decision making in recent studies [4–7]. This paper contributes to the stream of research on peer effects on sedentary office workers by proposing a model to quantify the peer effects on office workers’ break behaviors, and by exploring how individual break behaviors can be affected by peers in the same workspace. In conclusion, peer effects have been detected in offices and have proved to have a marked influence on sedentary office workers’ resting behaviors.
KW - Organizational behaviors
KW - Peer effects
KW - Sedentary behaviors
KW - Social norms
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85072859764&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-30033-3_40
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-30033-3_40
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85072859764
SN - 9783030300326
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 518
EP - 527
BT - HCI International 2019 – Late Breaking Papers - 21st HCI International Conference, HCII 2019, Proceedings
A2 - Stephanidis, Constantine
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 21st International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2019
Y2 - 26 July 2019 through 31 July 2019
ER -
